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What is calcification of the arteries, and how is it treated?
Professor Catherine Shanahan (PhD) explains what coronary artery calcification means, how it’s tested, what your score means and what treatment involves.
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Deciphering the roles of BMP9 and BMP10 in heart and lung health and diseaseUniversity of Cambridge | Professor Nicholas Morrell
Pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH, is a serious condition where the small arteries inside the lungs become narrow. This puts a strain on the heart, which has to pump harder to force the blood supply through these narrowed lung vessels...
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A Heart and Circulatory Disease Plan for Wales
We want to beat heartbreak caused by heart and circulatory diseases in Wales. To do this, we need to improve the detection, diagnosis, treatment and care of people who develop a heart or circulatory condition in their lifetime
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Scotland’s Hearts Need More: A manifesto for the future of heart disease care
With increasing ill health and unprecedented pressure on cardiology services, Scotland’s Hearts Need More. More focus, more investment, and more support.
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Can treatments during pregnancy affect the chances of developing heart disease later in life?University of Cambridge | Professor Dino Giussani
It is becoming increasingly clear that the environment we are exposed to whilst in our mother’s womb also affects our chances of developing heart problems later in life. An inadequate supply of oxygen (hypoxia) in the womb, problems with th...
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How do pulmonary vessels sense low blood oxygen and what goes wrong in disease?King's College London | Dr Olena Rudyk
Blood vessels that connect the heart with the lungs, the pulmonary arteries, constrict when the amount of oxygen in the body is low (known as hypoxia). In short term hypoxia, this process is important because it directs blood to parts of th...
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Investigating versican and its role in blood clotting in heart and circulatory diseaseImperial College London | Dr Josefin Ahnstrom
Versican is a protein present mainly in the walls of our blood vessels where it helps maintain their tubular shape. But versican levels are known to rise when heart and circulatory disease develops and is believed to increase the ability of...
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PUBLICATION
The CVD Challenge in Wales - Welsh Language VersionBooklet, published on 02/08/2018
Learn about the challenge of cardiovascular disease in Wales and how tackling medical risk factors can save lives and reduce NHS pressures. A Welsh language version of the resource.
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Politicians in Northern Ireland and Scotland share impact of living with cardiovascular disease for BHF red bench campaign
Keep Us Beating, the new campaign by BHF to highlight the shocking fact that every 3 minutes someone in the UK dies from cardiovascular disease, has been reinforced by an extended campaign in the devolved nations.
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The molecular causes of heart disease in diabetes induced by a high-fat dietQueen's University Belfast | Dr Qiaozhu Su
A high-fat diet can lead to type 2 diabetes – where blood sugar (glucose) levels are too high and not regulated. People with type 2 diabetes are at increased risk of heart and circulatory diseases. Molecules called microRNAs (miRNAs) contr...