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  • Dehydration: signs, causes, and tips to drink more water

    It's easy to become dehydrated without realising it, especially in hot weather. Learn to spot the signs of dehydration and get 5 top tips on drinking more water.

  • RESEARCH

    Developing a new method to identify people at increased risk of a heart attack

    King's College London | Professor Rene Botnar

    Atherosclerosis – the build-up of fatty plaques inside artery walls - is associated with an increased risk of a heart attacks or strokes. If these plaques rupture, they can cause a blood clot to form and block the blood supply to parts of t...

  • RESEARCH

    Hydrogen sulphide’s role in blood vessels following a heart attack

    University of Nottingham | Dr Vera Ralevic

    Every year thousands of people suffer a heart attack, which starves the heart of oxygen. To help preserve its function, the heart and circulatory system respond by undergoing various changes that attempt to reduce the damage. One of these i...

  • RESEARCH

    How fat tissue interacts with blood vessels and the heart

    University of Oxford | Professor Charalambos Antoniades

    Adipose tissue is not just an inert collection of fat cells found on our legs and stomach. Adipose tissue also surrounds our blood vessels and it’s now known that it secretes proteins, called adipokines, which have biological effects. One o...

  • How your heart works - heart and circulatory system

    Find out more about the anatomy and function of the heart and circulatory system. Have a look through our pictures of the heart and learn more about what it takes to keep our blood pumping.

  • RESEARCH

    Using high-tech scanners to identify patients at greatest risk of heart attack

    University of Edinburgh | Dr Marc Dweck

    Heart attacks are caused when a diseased area (plaque) in a coronary artery breaks apart and a blood clot forms. However, not all plaques in an artery are vulnerable to breaking, and not all blood clots will cause a heart attack. Unfortuna...

  • Focus on: Heart attacks

    Every five minutes, someone in the UK has a heart attack. We explain all you need to know about a heart attack including the causes, symptoms and effects.

  • PUBLICATION

    Ordinary day DVD

    DVD, 40 minutes, published on 01/03/2017

    This DVD is supports Heartstart schemes teaching life saving skills to children and young people. This resource illustrates specific emergency life support skills.

    This publication is only available to download or view online

  • Cardiovascular inequalities in Northern Ireland: an analysis

    Our report highlights health disparities in cardiovascular diseases and identifies both strengths and areas for improvement in Northern Ireland’s health system.

  • New wire can test for heart failure

    New research has proven that a wire inserted into an artery which supplies blood to the heart, called a coronary artery, after someone has a heart attack can predict if they will go on to develop heart failure.