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Can I get financial support or benefits if I have a heart condition?
If you have a heart or circulatory condition, you may be entitled to benefits to help with living costs, prescriptions, or transport to appointments. Find out more.
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From sci-fi to reality: a peek into the future of medicine
Discover what the future of medicine might bring, and how our research could help people with heart and circulatory conditions.
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Making the results of a powerful heart imaging technique more reliableImperial College London | Professor Darrel Francis
Echocardiographic strain imaging is a new technique that uses ultrasound to look at the heart and measures changes in its shape and size (referred to as strain) as it beats. This technique can provide a more comprehensive and accurate asses...
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Using fibrate drugs to improve heart functionUniversity of Oxford | Professor Masliza Mahmod
Aortic stenosis (AS) is the narrowing of the valve opening of the major artery in the heart. This limits blood flow through the valve, meaning the heart has to pump harder. Research has shown that people with AS tend to have fatty deposits ...
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Inhibiting Wnt signalling as a strategy to treat abdominal aortic aneurysmUniversity of Bristol | Professor Sarah Jane George
An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a ballooning of the aorta, the body’s main blood vessel that passes from the heart through the trunk of the body. It’s an extremely dangerous condition; it can develop without symptoms and can burst, ca...
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Understanding how intensive exercise can lead to abnormal heart rhythmsUniversity of Manchester | Dr Alicia DSouza
Exercising regularly is good for heart health, but athletes and people who take part in intensive exercise, such as ultramarathons, can be prone to heart rhythm disturbances such as atrial fibrillation. Dr Alicia D’Souza has previously sh...
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Developing a better way to diagnose different types of heart failureImperial College London | Professor Peter Weinberg
As the heart contracts, it generates a wave of increased blood flow through our arteries. As it relaxes, flow decreases. Studies have shown that analysing these ‘arterial waves’ could help distinguish between two types of heart failure - ...
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Can stem cells in the heart of mice teach us about human heart repair?Imperial College London | Professor Michael Schneider
Unlike some other animals, like the zebrafish, the human heart cannot heal itself by replacing damaged heart cells with new heart muscle cells. Despite this, it is now known that the heart does contain stem cells – cells that are able to d...
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Do diseased hearts ‘deform’ in a different way to normal hearts?University of Oxford | Professor Vicente Grau
So the heart can pump blood and oxygen around the body effectively, its four chambers need to ‘deform’ and change shape. But when the heart muscle is damaged, such as after a heart attack, this process does not work and the heart does not p...