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Why am I always tired
BHF Senior Cardiac Nurse, Regina Giblin, explains how lack of oxygen to the heart and medicine side effects can cause long-term tiredness in people with heart and circulatory conditions.
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UK Government could be first in world to reverse rise in obesity levels
We have come together with fellow organisations to turn the tide and improve the health of the population.
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Scientists grow contracting muscle cells from human blood
Researchers we fund have successfully grown smooth muscle cells in a dish from a small sample of blood and have shown that these behave in similar ways to those found in blood vessels.
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The BHF's research highlights of 2020
What a year it's been for our community of researchers. Not only have they continued their life-saving research into heart and circulatory diseases, but some redirected their expertise to join the fight against coronavirus. Let’s take a moment to reflect on some of the BHF’s research highlights in 2020.
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Your guide to 11 different types of blood tests
Read our list of the most common blood tests you may have and what they reveal about the body.
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Could blocking a protein called EPAC1 prevent heart and circulatory disease?Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh | Professor Stephen Yarwood
Dr Stephen Yarwood from Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh is working out if blocking an enzyme called EPAC1 could treat heart and circulatory diseases associated with metabolic syndrome – a combination of diabetes, high blood pressure and...
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Damage limitation after a heart attackUniversity College London | Professor Sean Davidson
Dr Sean Davidson is studying how we can protect the heart from further damage after a heart attack to prevent progression to heart failure During a heart attack, the heart is starved of blood carrying oxygen. The only way to protect the ...
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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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Deborah Lawlor
Deborah Lawlor and her team are studying the links between ethnicity, genetics and health in pregnancy on the long-term heart health of mothers and children
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Is butter as bad as we thought?
Whilst the findings indicate a small association between butter consumption and cardiovascular risk, it does not give us the green light to start eating more butter