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The Duchess of York announced as BHF Ambassador
The Duchess of York was today announced as an official British Heart Foundation Ambassador, marking the occasion by spending the morning at The William Harvey Heart Centre, Queen Mary University of London, where the BHF funds life saving heart research.
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What is the best diet plan for me?
The media is awash with claims about the best ways to lose weight, but do any of these diet plans provide a healthy balance? We debunk fad diets.
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Our impact on cerebrovascular research
Learn about the incredible research into stroke and vascular dementia BHF have funded and download our impact report.
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Von Willebrand factor: structure, activity and actionImperial College London | Dr Thomas McKinnon
Von Willebrand factor (VWF) is a large and complicated blood protein that is necessary for normal blood clotting. Low levels of VWF result in a tendency to excessive bleeding and high levels are associated with thrombosis (when a blood clot...
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What genes control how the aortic arch develops?Newcastle University | Dr Simon Bamforth
Supervised by Dr Simon Bamforth, this PhD student is studying the genetics behind congenital diseases that affect the aortic arch, a major blood vessel carrying blood away from the heart. Every year babies are born with aortic arch arter...
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What tips the balance to cause inflammation in atrial fibrillation?St George's, University of London | Dr Ingrid Dumitriu
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common form of irregular heart rhythm, affecting more than a million people in the UK. AF interferes with the pumping action of the heart in a way that makes blood clots more likely to form, which can ca...
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How are LXRs and IRF8 involved in the development of atherosclerosis?University College London | Dr Ines Pineda Torra
This study will investigate the relationship between Liver X receptors (LXRs) and another key protein, called IRF8, which plays a critical role in the development of new immune cells during inflammation. LXRs are cholesterol ‘sensors’ in th...
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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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Potential new drug for incurable vascular dementia
A drug already used to treat high blood pressure could be re-purposed as the first treatment to tackle a type of vascular dementia caused by damaged and ‘leaky’ small blood vessels in the brain, according to research we've part-funded and published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.