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Developing drugs to protect against the damage caused by heart attacksUniversity College London | Professor Sean Davidson
A heart attack happens when there is a blockage in a coronary artery which supplies blood to the heart. Restoring blood flow – known as reperfusion - is an essential part of treating a heart attack, but this can itself cause a build-up of p...
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Repairing damaged heart muscle – learning from the zebrafishUniversity of Oxford | Professor Roger Patient
Hundreds of thousands of people are living with heart failure, but there is no cure. This research in zebrafish may reveal ways to regenerate or repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack or in heart failure, which could ultimately ma...
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How the Piezo1 protein helps endothelial cells respond to stretchUniversity of Leeds | Professor David Beech
Professor David Beech and colleagues at the University of Leeds have been awarded a PhD studentship to allow a young researcher to study the physical forces within blood vessels. They have shown that a protein called Piezo1, an ion chan...
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The stress hormone cortisol and recovery after heart surgeryUniversity of Bristol | Professor Gianni D Angelini
Heart surgery causes inflammation throughout the whole body, and inflammation is often the reason people stay in intensive care for a long time or even die after surgery. One of the ways the body defends itself against uncontrolled inflamma...
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Gestational diabetes: understanding why foetal blood vessels become damaged and if sulforaphane can help?King's College London | Professor Giovanni Mann
It is increasingly common for mothers to develop diabetes during pregnancy (gestational diabetes). If blood glucose levels remain high, damage to blood vessels in both mother and child, results. Understanding whether blood vessels can be pr...
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Computer assessment of patients for transcatheter aortic valve replacementUniversity College London | Professor Silvia Schievano
Diseases of the heart valves are common and, when serious, require treatment with open-heart surgery. Recently, a non-surgical technique for aortic valve replacement has been developed. Despite its success, only patients considered at high ...
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Why do women with heart failure have a better prognosis than men?Imperial College London | Professor Kenneth MacLeod
Dr Kenneth MacLeod and his team at Imperial College London are investigating why high blood pressure causes heart failure in more women than men, yet more women survive. Heart failure is a serious condition where the heart cannot pump b...
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The media and statinsLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Professor Krishnan Bhaskaran
Dr Krishnan Bhaskaran and his team are studying whether media interest in statin side effects caused fewer patients to start taking statins, or stop taking them. Statins are drugs used to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart at...
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A clinical trial of iron supplementation for people with heart failureUniversity of Glasgow | Dr Paul R Kalra
Iron is needed for many processes in our bodies to work, including enabling our muscles to function correctly. People with heart failure frequently have low iron levels, which worsens their symptoms of shortness of breath and fatigue, their...
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Studying how bacteria stick to medical devicesUniversity of York | Professor Jennifer Potts
Devices that are inserted into the body either temporarily or permanently during medical procedures can become infected by bacteria. The infections are very difficult to treat with antibiotics and can affect cardiovascular devices such as r...