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Clinical trials: one man’s story of testing a device used in TAVI
Ray Jenkins from Somerset shares his experience of being part of research that’s shaping the future of valve replacement procedures for aortic stenosis.
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“I got back to work after a stroke and heart failure”
Find out how James Hall got back to the job he loves after he had a stroke and became partially sighted overnight.
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Research excellence at the University of EdinburghUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker
By investing in research the BHF are supporting scientists to make potentially life-saving discoveries, which could help us beat the heartbreak caused by heart and circulatory diseases across the world. But sometimes it takes more than a on...
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Calming down white blood cells to improve heart attack recoveryKing's College London | Dr Aleksandar Ivetic
White blood cells are essential for fighting infection and they can release powerful substances such as acids and molecules to help break down foreign cells. However, when white blood cells rush to help in the context of a heart attack, the...
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Can a drug against diarrhoea be used to treat pulmonary hypertension?University College London | Professor Raymond J MacAllister
Pulmonary hypertension is a rare but serious condition in which high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs results in narrowing of these blood vessels. Patients can have a poor quality of life and are at risk of developing heart failu...
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Creating a computer model of the heart to better understand atrial fibrillationKing's College London | Dr Steven Niederer
Normally, your heart’s natural pacemaker sends out regular electrical impulses. Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common heart rhythm disorder, mainly affecting people over 55. AF happens when the regular electrical impulses in the atria...
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Searching for ways to prevent cell death and inflammation in heart failureKing's College London | Professor Kinya Otsu
Data from 2015 suggests that nearly half a million people are living with heart failure in the UK. This is when the heart lacks the strength to pump blood around the body efficiently. BHF Professor Kinya Otsu is one of the world’s leading e...
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How our nerves control fat cell functionUniversity of Manchester | Professor Anthony Heagerty
Professor Anthony Heagerty and his team at the University of Manchester are studying how obesity increases a person’s risk of diabetes and high blood pressure. Almost a quarter of UK adults are obese, but we don’t fully understand how obesi...
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Pak1 and abnormal heart rhythmsUniversity of Oxford | Professor Ming Lei
Dr Ming Lei and his colleagues at the University of Oxford are working out whether an enzyme called Pak1 could be controlled to treat abnormal heart rhythms, also known as arrhythmias. When arrhythmias affect the ventricles, the lower pum...
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How do proteins FPR2 and ALX mediate blood clotting?University of Reading | Dr Sakthivel Vaiyapuri
BHF-funded researchers in Reading are looking to understand what exactly happens during blood clotting, so that new medicines can stop its harmful effects while preserving the life-saving ones. Platelets are small circulating blood cells t...