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Simple motivation tricks: how to stick to your health goals
We share simple tips from a health psychologist on how to get motivated to be healthy. Find out how.
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Changes to BHF printed booklets
Find printed BHF booklets and resources to help support your patients through tests, diagnosis, conditions, treatment and healthy living.
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Benefits of aspirin outweighed by risk of bleeding
Aspirin prevents heart attacks in people with diabetes, but it causes almost as many major bleeds and should not be routinely prescribed to prevent first heart attacks, according to research that we've funded being presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich.
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Growing new blood vesselsUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker
The BHF funds three pioneering Centres of Regenerative Medicine based at top UK universities. Each centre has a different scientific focus, but together they are moving us closer to our goal of unlocking ways to repair the damage caused by ...
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Teaching the heart to repair itselfUniversity of Oxford | Professor Paul Riley
The BHF funds three pioneering Centres of Regenerative Medicine at top UK universities. Each centre has a different scientific focus, but together they are moving us closer to our goal of unlocking ways to repair the damage caused by a hear...
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Revealing how our genes influence high blood pressureUniversity of Manchester | Professor Maciej Tomaszewski
DNA methylation is a chemical modification of DNA that switches off genes. It is an important contributor to heart and circulatory health and diseases. In this project, Professor Tomaszewski and his team will assess DNA methylation in the ...
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Nitric oxide signalling effects in healthy and diseased heartUniversity of Oxford | Dr Pawel Swietach
Heart failure reduces the pumping function of the heart, which can make even basic exercise almost impossible, disturb heart rhythm and shorten life expectancy. Researchers are trying to understand what controls the normal synchronised cont...
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The role of nesprins in atherosclerosisKing's College London | Dr Derek Warren
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) that line the blood vessel wall can change from supporting cells to cells that move around and can repair damaged blood vessels. VSMCs are constantly exposed to the mechanical stresses and strains arisin...
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Antidepressants
For some people living with a heart condition, antidepressants can help. An expert explains how they work, side effects and how to tell if you're depressed.
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Beating heartbreak for everyone
Our vision is a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases. Reducing inequalities in heart and circulatory diseases lies at the heart of this and is an important part of our strategy to 2030.