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    Addressing global gaps in knowledge about blood pressure treatment

    University of Oxford | Professor Kazem Rahimi

    Advances in research have shown that reducing high blood pressure with medicines can prevent heart disease and stroke. But there remain several gaps in our knowledge, including how blood pressure treatment affects other health issues, and w...

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    Investigating how nerve cells protect the heart’s left ventricle

    University College London | Professor Alexander Gourine

    The brain controls how our hearts work by sending commands via specialised nerves, which produce rapid changes in heartbeat rate and determine how hard the heart needs to work, such as during exercise. Dr Alexander Gourine at University ...

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    The link between high blood pressure and a protein called apelin

    University of Bristol | Dr Anne Marie O Carroll

    Dr Anne-Marie O’Carroll is studying a protein called apelin to work out what role it plays in high blood pressure. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a major health problem but we don’t fully understand what causes it. Recently the...

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    Developing a realistic computer model of abnormal heart rhythms

    Imperial College London | Dr Emmanuel Dupont

    Dr Emmanuel Dupont and his team at Imperial College London are testing a new computer simulation, which would allow researchers to study abnormal heart rhythms. To beat regularly, the heart contracts in response to complex electrical ci...

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    Do RIP proteins control life and death in heart muscle cells?

    University of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk

    Professor Angela Clerk is studying how heart muscle cells die after a heart attack to identify points where we could intervene and prevent it. The team is studying a new form of cell death called necroptosis, which could be important in the...

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    Using magnetic resonance imaging to find out why diabetics get heart failure

    University of Leeds | Professor Sven Plein

    People with diabetes are at increased risk of developing heart failure, where the heart is unable to pump enough blood around the body. It is unknown why diabetics are prone to heart failure and which treatments can slow the progression of ...

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    New MRI scans to help guide tests for arrhythmia

    Imperial College London | Dr Jennifer Keegan

    Doctors usually investigate and treat alterations in the heart’s rhythm – known as arrhythmias –using electrophysiology (EP). This involves passing flexible electrodes through a blood vessel and carefully placing them at specific positions ...

  • Death rates - Death and deprivation

    The index of Multiple Deprivation compares the relative deprivation based on small areas within each country using several factors including income, education, crime and employment. See our downloadable data below.

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    Preventing heart failure by protecting the protein MKK7

    University of Manchester | Dr Xin Wang

    Manchester-based researchers are searching for ways to boost a natural heart-protecting protein to prevent or halt heart failure. Heart failure is a devastating condition, affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the UK. In heart fail...

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    A clinical trial testing if a device can help reduce the risk of stroke during transcatheter valve replacement for aortic stenosis

    University of Oxford | Professor Rajesh Kharbanda

    Aortic stenosis (AS) is a condition causing a narrowing of the aortic valve, restricting blood flow out of the heart. AS can be treated by replacing the damaged valve. This is done either by open heart surgery, or by a less invasive procedu...