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  • What should my heart rate be when I exercise?

    Find out why knowing your target heart rate is important when exercising, and how to calculate it.

  • Young Heart Hero

    This award celebrates young fundraisers, advocates and heart patients who have done amazing things in support of BHF’s lifesaving work.

  • Heart failure

    Heart failure is a condition where your heart can’t pump blood around your body as well as it should. It doesn’t mean your heart has stopped working but you may need support to help it work better.

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    The role of blood flow in blood vessel function, and its importance during diabetes

    University of Strathclyde | Professor John G McCarron

    Professor John McCarron and his colleagues at the University of Strathclyde are studying how blood vessels respond to blood flow, and why blood flow changes in people with diabetes. Changes in blood flow can cause blood vessels to contrac...

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    Creating a large searchable library of ECG heart traces

    Imperial College London | Professor Marek Malik

    An electrocardiogram – commonly called an ECG – is a routine test that records the rhythm and electrical activity of the heart. Most healthcare professionals will be familiar with the ‘hills and valleys’ pattern of a normal ECG reading. But...

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    Reviewing the accuracy of predictive systems in heart failure to help treatment decisions

    University of Oxford | Dr MariaHeleni Trivella

    People with heart failure often have to be admitted to hospital many times, to stabilise after severe episodes. Several different approaches to treatment may be tried, but finding the best treatment for each individual can be a process of t...

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    Why do some platelets become harmful, while others are helpful?

    University of Cambridge | Dr Matthew Harper

    Platelets are small blood cells that are both helpful and harmful to us. Helpful, because they enable our blood to clot after injury, so prevent too much bleeding. Harmful, because they also form clots in diseased arteries, leading to heart...

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    Understanding the different causes of blood pressure in men versus women

    University of Bristol | Dr Emma Hart

    Dr Emma Hart is supervising a PhD student who is investigating gender-related differences in high blood pressure. In the past, it was thought that men were more at risk of high blood pressure. But evidence shows that incidence of high blood...

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    An invention to ease fluid build-up in heart failure

    University of Manchester | Dr Leonard Ebah

    According to data from 2015, more than half a million people in the UK are living with heart failure. A debilitating symptom of heart failure can be excessive fluid accumulation in the body, causing swelling and breathing problems. Some peo...

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    The role of pericytes in regenerating blood vessels and healing hearts

    University of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu

    Bristol researchers are on the search to solve the challenge of regenerating blood vessels. During a heart attack a coronary artery is blocked, starving part of the heart of oxygen. This injures the heart muscle and – in heart attack survi...