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Using machine learning to improve physical activity guidelinesUniversity of Oxford | Dr Aiden Doherty
Current evidence shows that too little physical activity increases the risk of heart disease. However, the evidence we have is largely based on asking people how much physical activity they do, which is not accurate. Modern studies tend to ...
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How blood vessels form hollow tubesUniversity of Bristol | Professor Harry Mellor
Professor Harry Mellor and his colleagues at the University of Bristol are studying blood vessel growth to try to reveal new ways to help people with blood vessel disease. Angiogenesis - where new blood vessels are formed from pre-existin...
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Using allopurinol to improve the outcome for stroke patients in the UKUniversity of Glasgow | Professor Jesse Dawson
Stroke causes more than 41,000 deaths in the UK each year. There are around 152,000 strokes in the UK each year and nearly 1.2 million people living in the UK have had a stroke. These people are at high risk of another stroke, and also of a...
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Controlling von Willebrand factor as a treatment for strokeImperial College London | Professor David A Lane
Although stroke patients can be given blood thinning agents to prevent platelets plugging together, they are at risk of the serious side effect of bleeding and also having more strokes in the future. Professor David Lane and colleagues from...
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A potential new anti-oxidant approach to combating atherosclerosisUniversity of Reading | Professor David S Leake
Researchers will investigate a potential new way to prevent the damaging effects of LDL cholesterol in arteries. ‘Bad’ LDL cholesterol contributes to artery disease, known as atherosclerosis, which causes heart attacks. Part of the proce...
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Unravelling the effects of genetic variation in pulmonary hypertensionImperial College London | Dr Christopher Rhodes
Over 9000 European people with rare diseases had their genomes sequenced as part of the UK’s BRIDGE project. One of diseases studied was pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) – high blood pressure in the lungs, which leads to heart failure....
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Learning about silent genes that could help the heart repair itselfUniversity of Oxford | Dr Joaquim Vieira
Damage to the heart muscle caused by a heart attack cannot be repaired. This is because the adult heart has a limited ability to grow new muscle cells. Recently, Dr Vieira has shown that the heart attempts to repair itself after injury by...
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Improving our understanding of how RNA controls blood vessel growthUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker
BHF Professor Andrew Baker from the University of Edinburgh is working with Dr Igor Ulitsky from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel to identify what controls how blood vessel cells form and function, and how they can regenerate and...
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Accelerator award at the University of BristolUniversity of Bristol | Professor Deborah Anne Lawlor
BHF-funded research is behind many of the advances that are helping people with heart and circulatory diseases to live longer, better lives. By investing in research we are supporting scientists to make potentially life-saving discoveries, ...