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The Asian Business Board
The Asian Business Board are a group of business leaders who are raising vital funds in support of BHF’s lifesaving research.
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6 healthy stir-fry sauce recipes
Dietitian Mei Wan shares 6 delicious and healthy stir-fry sauces that will give your stir fries attitude, while looking after your heart.
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Investigating a new suspect in hypertensionSt George's, University of London | Professor Anthony Albert
Nearly 30 per cent of adults in the UK have high blood pressure, which raises the risk of heart disease threefold. Despite how common it is, today’s medicines can fail to tightly control blood pressure in many people. This team in London ar...
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Targeting mast cells to prevent deep vein thrombosisUniversity of Birmingham | Dr Alexander Brill
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a blood clot that develops within a deep vein in the body, usually in the leg. Large cells found close to blood vessels called mast cells (MCs) are known to be important in DVT, but it is not known what trigger...
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Do cruciferous vegetables lower blood pressure?
We fact-check claims that eating 'superfoods’ like broccoli, cauliflower and kale every day can reduce high blood pressure.
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Understanding your cholesterol levels
Learn more about the different names and numbers on your cholesterol test results.
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Why do we like salt so much, and how does it cause high blood pressure?University of Edinburgh | Professor Matthew Bailey
High blood pressure is a major risk factor for heart and circulatory disease and it affects millions of people in the UK. Having too much salt in our diet can lead to high blood pressure, so it’s important that we try to limit our int...
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Studying how antiplatelet drugs interact to optimise treatmentsQueen Mary, University of London | Professor Timothy Warner
Anti-platelet drugs are taken by millions of people to protect against heart attacks and strokes. Routinely, people at particular risk receive aspirin plus an ADP (P2Y12) receptor antagonist. This is because most trials of antiplatelet ther...
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Preventing arteries from blocking after angioplastyUniversity of Aberdeen | Professor Graeme Nixon
Patients with blocked coronary arteries often undergo angioplasty - the insertion of a balloon catheter into the artery followed by balloon inflation to unblock the artery and restore blood flow to the heart. However, as a result of angiopl...
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Landmark £100m donations through JustGiving to fund our lifesaving research
We have reached a landmark £100 million in donations via online fundraising site JustGiving