Search

People living with diabetes could be set to benefit from a major research initiative to untangle the link between diabetes and heart disease – two of the most pressing global health crises.

RESEARCH

University of Southampton | Professor Mark Hanson

Professor Mark Hanson and his team at the University of Southampton are studying how a mother’s diet and behaviour affects her child’s risk of heart and circulatory disease in the future. As part of the Southampton Women’s Survey, Profes...

RESEARCH

University College London | Professor Ian C Zachary

Each day in the UK, 12 babies are diagnosed with congenital heart defects, which are abnormalities in the structure of the heart or its blood vessels. Congenital defects occur when the heart fails to develop normally in the embryo . Many m...

The ART trial, part funded by the BHF, aimed to find out whether using two chest arteries as bypass grafts is the best way of carrying out coronary artery bypass surgery.

RESEARCH

University of Strathclyde | Professor Robin Plevin

CXCL12 is a molecule that causes inflammation and has been linked to the development of heart and circulatory diseases. Researchers are now interested in whether they can stop it working in blood vessel cells and whether this might help pre...

RESEARCH

University of Oxford | Dr Alexander Jones

Obesity and physical inactivity are becoming more common in children and are major risk factors for heart and circulatory diseases. Although we may not see the effects until children get older, we know that disease processes begin in childh...

RESEARCH

University of Oxford | Dr Thomas Parks

Rheumatic fever is a condition that is common in the developing world. It is caused by infection with a bacterium called group A streptococcus. Sometimes children and young adults who have had rheumatic fever go on to develop rheumatic hear...

RESEARCH

University of Cambridge | Professor Hugh Markus

Professor Hugh Markus and colleagues at the University of Cambridge are studying cerebral small vessel disease (SVD), a disease of the small blood vessels in the brain. The condition causes a quarter of all strokes and underlies vascular de...

RESEARCH

Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Rebecca Charles

Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (known as EETs) are naturally occurring molecules that play a protective role against heart and circulatory diseases, by reducing blood pressure, inflammation and atherosclerosis. However, EETs are broken down by a...

Medicines used to treat angina and high blood pressure could be used to treat acute kidney injury, a potentially deadly condition, according to research we've helped to fund.