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We want to encourage truly person-centred care for people with heart and circulatory conditions, so we've supported the NHS to adopt 'care and support planning' – a new way of delivering care.

The International Cardiovascular Research Partnership Awards (ICRPA) will fund research projects where the cross-national dimension enables work of higher impact than can be carried out nationally. This is a partnership between BHF, DZHK, DHF and LDF.

We urgently need your support. Covid-19 has cut our research in half. Slowing down puts even more lives at risk, at a time when hearts need help more than ever.

Our Senior Dietitian Victoria Taylor responds to news stories on eggs and cholesterol

RESEARCH

University of Cambridge | Professor Martin Bennett

BHF Professor Martin Bennett and his colleagues at the University of Cambridge are studying artery ageing to find new ways to prevent it or slow it down. Ageing affects all the organs of the body, including our arteries. When they age, the...

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University of Leicester | Dr David Adlam

Heart failure affects hundreds of thousands of people in the UK. It occurs when the heart lacks the power to pump strongly, so oxygen isn’t circulated quickly enough to keep up with the body’s demands. This is a debilitating condition and l...

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University of Birmingham | Dr Steven Thomas

Platelets play an essential role in normal blood clotting to prevent blood loss after injury, but also when there is unwanted clotting in a blood vessel, called thrombosis. Scientists now have a greater understanding of the blood clotting p...

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University of Leeds | Professor Sven Plein

The British Heart Foundation is contributing £1,893,264 to help the establishment of a new Centre for Translational Cardiovascular Imaging at the University of Leeds. The BHF funding will go towards the purchasing of the equipment needed fo...

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University of Cambridge | Dr Katrien L Wijndaele

Adults sit a lot, especially following dinner, when they watch television. Sitting has been linked to cardiovascular health, but long-term studies with accurate sitting measures are lacking. Furthermore, no research specifically examined th...