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Ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review, we are calling for the Government to commit to significant investment in the NHS, research, and public health.

BHF-funded researchers at the University of Cambridge have shown that people with a history of two or more conditions - including heart attack, diabetes and stroke - have a significantly reduced life expectancy

Even moderate physical activity can affect the heart's size and shape according to a new study we helped to fund at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London. The findings could be important in preventing misdiagnosis of heart conditions, which can also cause changes in size and shape of the heart.

Associate Medical Director Dr Mike Knapton tells Senior Cardiac Nurse Emily McGrath why it's important to get your blood pressure checked

British Heart Foundation analysis shows it has no gender and ethnicity pay gaps

Research suggests there’s a diet that may help to prevent dementia. Our Senior Dietitian Victoria Taylor explains.

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University of Oxford | Professor Kazem Rahimi

Oxford researchers are using Big Data to understand the links between high blood pressure and diabetes. Millions of people in the UK are living with diabetes and/or high blood pressure, also called hypertension. These conditions raise peop...

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University of Liverpool | Dr Richard D Rainbow

Before the menopause, women are much more likely to survive a heart attack compared to men of the same age. They are also less likely to have long-term damage. However, after the menopause, men and women’s risk of death or long-term heart d...

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University of Manchester | Dr Katharine Dibb

Dr Katharine Dibb and her colleagues at the University of Manchester are investigating a new way to treat the most common irregular heart rhythm, atrial fibrillation (AF). AF can lead to a person having a stroke or heart attack. Calciu...

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University of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu

There are more than 11 million people in the UK aged 65 or over. This number is expected to rise dramatically in the next decade or so, because we now live longer than ever before. Although good news, an aging population also can mean an in...