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How does the age of a platelet change its function in heart and circulatory disease?Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Timothy Warner
Platelets are small cells that circulate in the blood. They stop bleeding from damaged blood vessels by rapidly sticking together and forming a blood clot, but if a clot forms at the wrong time it can be dangerous. Atherosclerosis is a dis...
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Looking for ways to prevent heart and circulatory disease in people with diabetesUniversity of Leeds | Professor Mark Kearney
Type 2 diabetes affects millions of people across the world and is a major cause of heart attacks and strokes. We urgently need to find new treatments to prevent heart and circulatory disease in people with diabetes, so we can improve the ...
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Copying a natural repair system to develop new drugs for heart diseaseUniversity of Nottingham | Dr Jeanette Woolard
A molecule called adenosine is released from cells throughout the body to help protect them and repair them when damaged. Scientists hope to develop drugs that mimic how adenosine works to produce similar protective and healing effects. ...
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How an imbalance between nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species contributes to heart diseaseUniversity of Oxford | Dr Mark Crabtree
Maintaining the right balance in the body of beneficial chemicals called nitric oxide (NO) and damaging chemicals called reactive oxygen species (ROS) is essential for our heart and circulatory system to work correctly. In some diseases suc...
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Can aspirin and fish oil supplements protect people with diabetes from heart disease?University of Oxford | Professor Jane Armitage
People with diabetes are at a higher risk of having a heart attack or stroke. ASCEND is a clinical trial which started in 2004. The study aimed to find out whether a daily aspirin tablet and/or a fish oil capsule could help to prevent peopl...
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Action now could avoid up to 11,000 CVD deaths a year by 2035
We're calling for a heart disease action plan to reduce death and disability from cardiovascular disease.
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Tackling inequalities in heart health and care: our policy initiatives
Discover our policy work on tackling inequalities in heart and circulatory disease in the UK.
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Can a new drug improve blood flow to the limbs in peripheral arterial disease?University of Edinburgh | Dr Patrick Hadoke
Dr Patrick Hadoke is investigating whether a new drug he has developed boosts new blood vessel growth and improves blood flow to the limbs in people with peripheral arterial disease. People with peripheral arterial disease have a reduce...
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The role of R-SPONDIN3 in the regulation of human body shape and susceptibility to cardiovascular diseaseUniversity of Oxford | Professor Fredrik Karpe
Obesity is a major risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease. People who are overweight due to fat deposition around the abdomen (so-called ‘apple-shaped’ individuals) seem to have a higher risk of heart disease than those w...
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How do platelets detect injury or disease and trigger dangerous clotting?University of Reading | Professor Jonathan Gibbins
Platelets are small blood cells that protect us from bleeding by triggering blood to clot following an injury. But platelets can also trigger thrombosis - blood clotting inside the arteries, putting people at risk of heart attack or stroke....