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Wholegrain foods: why there's more to them than wholemeal bread
Find out what wholegrain foods are and why they're essential to your health with BHF Senior Dietitian Tracy Parker.
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Can you die from a broken heart?
The BHF are funding a medical condition known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or ‘Broken Heart Syndrome’ that is all too real for many people in the UK
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Finding a weakness in how bacteria grow on medical devices, to prevent infectionUniversity of York | Dr Michael Plevin
Advances in research and technology have led to the development of a wide range of medical devices used to treat heart disease. Devices like pacemakers, prosthetic heart valves and stents may be placed inside patients’ bodies for year...
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New microscope techniques to identify signalling compartments in the heartImperial College London | Professor Julia Gorelik
Dr Julia Gorelik from Imperial College London is studying the mechanisms that control contraction of the heart in health and in heart failure. These include proteins that regulate molecules called cAMP and cGMP which cause heart cells to co...
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Developing new ways to measure stiffness of arteries
Developing new ways to measure stiffness of arteries
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Having a healthier heart is associated with better problem-solving and reaction time
People with healthier heart structure and function appear to have better cognitive abilities, including increased capacity to solve logic problems and faster reaction times, according to research we part-funded.
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Thousands of heart attack sufferers missed life saving hospital care during coronavirus
An estimated 5000 heart attack sufferers in England may have missed out on life saving hospital treatment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new research we’ve funded.
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Algae could prevent limb amputation
A new algae-based treatment could reduce the need for amputation in people with critical limb ischaemia, according to new research funded by the British Heart Foundation.
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Edinburgh study could give new hope for heart failure
BHF-funded researchers in Edinburgh are using state-of-the-art techniques to identify genes that could help the heart to repair itself after a heart attack.