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Finding out why exercise causes heart rhythm disturbances in long QT syndromeQueen Mary, University of London | Professor Andrew Tinker
People with a type of inherited heart condition called long QT syndrome are at risk of abnormal heart rhythms. These abnormal heart rhythms put people at risk of sudden cardiac death, particularly during or following exercise. Long QT syndr...
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Waste and fluid accumulation in vascular dementiaUniversity of Southampton | Professor Roxana Carare
Dr Roxana Carare from the University of Southampton is studying vascular dementia, a common form of dementia where the brain’s blood supply is impaired. She believes vascular dementia happens because the brain cannot get rid of waste and fl...
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Heart attack treatment - ERIC-PPCI
The CONDI-2/ERIC-PPCI trial, part funded by the BHF, tested whether a blood pressure cuff on the arm could help protect the heart after a heart attack.
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Southall And Brent Revisited (SABRE) tri-ethnic study: how diabetes increases the risk of heart failure, dementia, heart attack and strokeUniversity College London | Professor Nish Chaturvedi
Patients with diabetes have a higher chance of later having heart failure, dementia, heart attacks, or strokes compared with people who don’t have diabetes. The exact reasons for this are unknown. With an ageing population, diabetes is beco...
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Can export control stop cells releasing von Willebrand factor?Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Thomas Nightingale
Dr Thomas Nightingale and his team at Queen Mary, University of London, are looking for ways to control levels of a protein called von Willebrand factor, or VWF, which is linked to heart and circulatory disease. When the body is injured,...
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How are heart researchers using the Nobel Prize-winning genetic scissors?
We can all agree that 2020 has been a year like no other, but the fact that there are researchers out there using a Nobel Prize-winning discovery to help us beat heartbreak forever – to help us live in a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases – is exactly what we all needed to know right now.
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Revealing the genetic faults responsible for the most common aortic valve defectNewcastle University | Professor Deborah Henderson
At the entrance and exit of each of the four chambers of the heart are valves, which open and close quickly between heartbeats to stop blood flowing backwards. If the heart valves are faulty – if they don’t open properly or are leaky - they...
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Identifying and predicting which forms of titin are involved in cardiomyopathyUniversity of Liverpool | Dr Olga Mayans
The heart is made up of many different cell types and proteins that work together to produce every heart beat. One important protein is called titin. There are over 8,000 different versions of the titin gene and some of them don’t work prop...
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Are artificial sweeteners safe?
Researchers have recently been quoted in newspapers saying, “Artificial sweeteners should not be considered a safe alternative to sugar.” But what’s the truth? We look behind the headlines.
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The largest ever study of dilated cardiomyopathyImperial College London | Professor Stuart Cook
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a disease of the heart muscle where it becomes stretched, thin and weak. This means the heart is unable to pump blood around the body efficiently. Treatments are limited and around one fifth of people with DC...