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Developing ways to personalise digoxin treatmentUniversity of Birmingham | Dr Davor Pavlovic
Digoxin is a common treatment for people with atrial fibrillation and heart failure, but it doesn’t always work as well as expected. Dr Pavlovic’s team at the University of Birmingham has previously shown that substances in the blood called...
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Understanding how blood vessel cells control blood clottingUniversity of Leeds | Dr Lynn McKeown
The formation of blood clots after damage to blood vessels is essential to prevent excessive bleeding. The first step in this process is the formation of a ‘plug’ of small blood cells called platelets. This is helped along by the release of...
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Does Ric8B control heartrate in response to the brain’s command?Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Andrew Tinker
The heart pumps blood round the body and the blood vessels supply oxygen to organs such as brain. This isn't a static system; it needs to be tuned in conditions where there is high demand for oxygen, such as during exercise, and at times wh...
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Finding tiny changes in the heart’s electrics that can stop it staying in rhythm.University College London | Dr Ivan Kadurin
Irregular heart rhythms – called arrhythmias – can be life-threatening. They come in many forms with the most common type, atrial fibrillation, affecting more than a million people in the UK alone. Arrhythmias occur when there is a fault in...
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New scanning technique could reveal severity of hypertrophic cardiomyopathyUniversity of Leeds | Dr Irvin Teh
In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, heart muscle cells lose their normal highly-ordered arrangement and become more randomly arranged. There is also a thickening and stiffening of the heart muscle wall, called fibrosis. This thickening makes it...
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Understanding how common cancer drugs affect the heartUniversity of Reading | Professor Angela Clerk
Several drugs to treat cancer are known to have long-term side effects on the heart. Among them are drugs that impact a series of proteins which talk to each other, called the ERK1/2 pathway. This pathway promotes cancer, but it also protec...
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Developing better ways to measure body fat in childrenSt George's, University of London | Dr Claire Nightingale
Childhood obesity is a major UK public health challenge. The way that children are measured is vital in keeping track of the problem, and in monitoring the success or failure of attempts to address it. The most widely used measure of body f...
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Targeting a key step in blood clotting, towards a new anticoagulant medicineUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Stephanie Jung
When we have a cut the body responds by forming a blood clot at the wound site. Platelets are small blood cells that prevent excessive bleeding when a blood vessel is injured, by clumping together and forming a blood clot. Blood clots are s...
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BHF responds to Autumn Statement
The BHF has responded to the Government's Autumn Statement.
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Flu and your heart condition
Learn about the flu and how it affects you if you live with a heart condition, including whether the flu will impact on your medication, how long it lasts, getting vaccinated and tips to help with the symptoms.