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Too much sugar can lead to weight gain and damaging effects on our health. Here are 6 small changes that you'll hardly notice, which can help you cut down on the sweet stuff.

We've responded to latest NHS England figures which show a rise in the heart care waiting list, and that average ambulance response times for heart attacks and strokes remain nearly double the 18-minute target.

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University of Oxford | Professor Charalambos Antoniades

Liraglutide is a medicine that’s used to help control blood sugar in people with type 2 diabetes. However, a recent study revealed that Liraglutide also cuts the risk of heart attacks in diabetic people. A heart attack occurs when fatty p...

Pulmonary atresia is a type of congenital heart condition, which means a defect that develops in the womb before your baby is born

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University College London | Dr Emmanuel Boucrot

When the levels of LDL (‘bad cholesterol’) are raised in the blood, our chances of developing coronary heart disease increase. Statin drugs lower cholesterol in the body by blocking its production in the liver. However, in response to this ...

Find out if drinking tea, coffee or other popular drinks can lower the risk of dying from heart attack or stroke.

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University of Oxford | Professor Manuela Zaccolo

Professor Manuela Zaccolo is studying heart failure, where the heart is unable to pump hard enough to deliver enough blood around the body and for which there is currently no cure. Some of the drugs used to treat heart failure work by bl...

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University College London | Dr Katherine Brown

Today, many more children born in the UK with complex heart defects have surgery, survive and get to go home than would have done decades ago. But little is known about what happens to these children as they grow up – about their long...

Air pollution is the number one environmental risk factor for heart and circulatory diseases. It’s attributable for up to 11,000 heart and circulatory deaths in the UK each year. That’s why we’re calling for stricter limits on air pollution in law across the UK.

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University of Glasgow | Dr Pasquale Maffia

A team led by Dr Pasquale Maffia at the University of Glasgow is interested in the role of immune cells in the circulatory system in the onset of heart and circulatory disease. Much heart disease occurs because of the build-up of fatty, or ...