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Does eating meat increase your risk of heart disease?
New research has claimed that eating processed meat, unprocessed red meat or poultry increases your risk of heart disease. But how accurate is this?
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Polypill could prevent heart and circulatory disease
A low-cost polypill—combining four cardiovascular drugs in a single pill—cuts the risk of major heart and circulatory disease events by a third over five years.
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Tetherin: an important platelet surface protein in cardiovascular disease?University of Bristol | Professor Stuart Mundell
One of the main contributors to coronary heart disease is thrombosis - a serious condition that can develop when a blood vessel becomes damaged and small blood cells called platelets stick to the damaged area, forming a clot inside the bloo...
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The link between ageing and heart diseaseKing's College London | Dr Gian De Nicola
Dr Gian De Nicola is a structural biologist. He examines the shape and size of biological molecules like proteins, and tries to determine how their shape is related to their function in the body. He has been working in Professor Michael Mar...
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Statins reduce cardiovascular disease risk in women
Large study we helped to fund shows that statins reduce cardiovascular risk in women
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Using tissue engineering to treat congenital heart diseaseUniversity of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu
Professor Paolo Madeddu is working out ways to use stem cell-based tissue engineering to help babies born with congenital heart disease. In this project, he will develop a new a new prosthetic graft called a ‘pericyte-engineered’ graft ...
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Does congenital heart disease affect brain development?King's College London | Professor Serena Counsell
Supervised by Professor Serena Counsell, this Clinical Research Training Fellow is studying congenital heart disease, where heart problems develop before birth. Thanks to advances in diagnostics and heart surgery, many made possible by ...
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Ultra-processed food is associated with cardiovascular disease
Weekly consumption of ultra-processed food is linked with an increased risk of heart disease even in those with an otherwise healthy diet, according to research presented at European Society of Cardiology Congress.
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Could Entresto protect against heart valve disease?Imperial College London | Dr Adrian Chester
Researchers are searching for a non-surgical way to treat stiffened heart valves. The one-way flow of blood around the heart is maintained by valves. These flaps of tissue are pushed open by blood flowing in the correct direction, and sn...
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Treatments for heart valve disease
Get our quick guide to why you might have heart valve replacement, what it involves and how long it will last.