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Investigating inflammation in blood vessel disease.King's College London | Professor Albert Ferro
Atherosclerosis occurs when arteries are narrowed by the build-up of fatty deposits within the vessel wall. It’s the principal cause of coronary heart disease and can lead to heart attack or, if it involves the arteries supplying blood to t...
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The behaviour of BH4 in cardiovascular disease: friend or foe?University of Oxford | Professor Keith Channon
Researchers know that a molecule called BH4 is very important to the circulatory system. However it appears to have two opposing functions. High levels of BH4 in cells that line blood vessels (endothelial cells) protect against disease by h...
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British Regional Heart Study (BRHS): studying the causes and ways to prevent heart and circulatory disease in older menUniversity College London | Professor Sasiwarang Goya Wannamethee
People over 70 are at particular risk of death from coronary heart disease (CHD), yet most research tends to focus on patients and risk factors in middle age. The British Regional Heart Study is one of the few studies that has been collecti...
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The link between psychological stress and heart diseaseUniversity College London | Professor Andrew Steptoe
Psychological stress is thought to be linked to the development of coronary heart disease. Stress stimulates vascular inflammation, a process involved in atherosclerosis. But stress also leads to the releases of the hormone cortisol which r...
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Do warmer nights raise the risk of death from heart and circulatory disease?
According to new research, men in their early 60s have a higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease on hotter than usual summer nights. We look behind the headlines.
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Using tissue engineering to treat congenital heart diseaseUniversity of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu
Professor Paolo Madeddu is working out ways to use stem cell-based tissue engineering to help babies born with congenital heart disease. In this project, he will develop a new a new prosthetic graft called a ‘pericyte-engineered’ graft ...
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Role of Rho kinase in heart development and diseaseNewcastle University | Dr Helen Phillips
Abnormalities in the structure and function of the heart cause congenital heart disease (when babies are born with a heart defect) and also cause heart disease in the adult. The muscle cells of the heart change shape during development in t...
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Is junk DNA important in heart disease?Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Andrew Smith
In this Intermediate Basic Science Fellowship Dr Andrew Smith from University College London will study regions of our DNA to find out why coronary heart disease often runs in families. We know that there are regions of our DNA that are lin...
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A study of kidney donors to understand the link between kidney disease and heart diseaseUniversity of Birmingham | Professor Jonathan N Townend
Dr Jonathan Townend’s team from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham is researching the link between kidney disease and the development of heart disease. Changes in the kidney as a result of disease are thought to affect the heart and cir...
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What puts older women at risk of cardiovascular disease?University College London | Professor Juan Casas
Heart disease is the UK’s single biggest killer and women older than 65 years are at particular risk. The reasons for this remain unknown, which is a particular concern, given the ageing population. Dr Juan Casas and colleagues from the Lon...