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The BHF gives its view on news stories claiming that plant-based food swaps can lower your risk of heart disease and diabetes.

We have teamed up with Tesco Pharmacy, Cancer Research UK and Diabetes UK to launch the 'Let's Talk' pharmacy service.

Researchers have found a gene that redirects fats to be stored in organs, which is an early sign of metabolic disease and diabetes.

BHF funded researchers researchers at the University of Oxford think they have solved the mystery of why people with diabetes have a sustained increase in their risk of having a heart attack, even when their blood sugar levels return to normal. They found that high blood sugar ‘reprogrammes’ stem cells, making the white blood cells that develop from them more inflammatory. This makes atherosclerosis (fatty plaques in the arteries) worse – atherosclerosis is a leading cause of heart attacks.

Years before developing diabetes, people with insulin resistance could be more likely to develop abnormal heart rhythms, which may put them at greater risk of sudden death, according to research we've funded and presented today at the British Cardiovascular Society conference.

Charalambos Antoniades and his team are investigating how fat in our bodies communicates with our heart and blood vessels, leading to heart attacks and strokes

Two of the British Heart Foundations corporate partnerships have been named most admired' in the C&E Advisory’s 2025 Corporate–Non-Profit Partnerships Barometer report. The Health Charity partnership, between Tesco, Cancer Research UK, and Diabetes UK topped the report for the third year running with BHF and Sky Bet's partnership named runner up.

BHF Northern Ireland's NCD report (non-communicable diseases include heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and lung disease). NCDs are responsible for more than four out of five deaths in Northern Ireland.

RESEARCH

University of Leeds | Professor Sven Plein

People with diabetes are at increased risk of developing heart failure, where the heart is unable to pump enough blood around the body. It is unknown why diabetics are prone to heart failure and which treatments can slow the progression of ...

RESEARCH

University of Manchester | Dr Wei Liu

BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Wei Liu is studying ways to treat diabetic cardiomyopathy, a condition that can lead to heart failure because the heart doesn’t pump as well as it should. Healthy hearts are fuelled by a...