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BHF research breakthroughs from Europe’s biggest heart conference.

Over the past 60 years, BHF support has enabled the training of generations of researchers and supported world-leading scientists to make discoveries that have helped save and improve people’s lives.

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University of Oxford | Professor Claudia Monaco

Obesity and type 2 diabetes are ‘metabolic’ diseases that increase the risk of atherosclerosis, a build-up of fatty material inside the arteries. When these fatty plaques break apart they can trigger a heart attack or stroke. A common f...

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University of Birmingham | Dr Claudio Mauro

Cardiovascular metabolic diseases, including atherosclerosis (the process that underlies coronary heart disease), obesity and diabetes, are a leading cause of ill health. There is evidence to show that low grade inflammation is associated w...

In an open letter to the Health and Social Care Secretary, BHF, Tesco and two other leading health charity partners are urging the UK Government to make healthier food sales reporting mandatory for all supermarkets and major food businesses.

BMI does not give a true picture of childhood obesity levels in ethnic minorities, with South Asian children particularly at risk of being wrongly categorised.

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University of Manchester | Professor Maciej Tomaszewski

Professor Maciej Tomaszewski and his team at the University of Manchester are working out why men are more likely to develop heart disease, particularly whether this is because they have inherited genes that predispose them to heart disease...

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University of Oxford | Dr Peter Scarborough

BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Peter Scarborough is developing a new computer model that can predict heart and circulatory disease rates until 2030. In recent years the influence of risk factors for heart and circulato...

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University College London | Professor Stefan Trapp

Glucagon-like-peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a molecule made by the gut and the brain that reduces appetite and helps control blood sugar levels. Drugs that mimic the effects of GLP-1 are currently used to lower body weight and treat diabetes. Howeve...

A Tesco fundraising appeal has raised £1 million for the BHF's life saving work in just two weeks