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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...

Find out what giving blood involves, where you can donate blood, and whether you can give blood if you have heart disease.

Find out how Prakash copes with more than one health condition and still gets enjoyment from life. Read his story now. 

We've joined a campaign to encourage everyone with health conditions, including heart and circulatory diseases, to get the coronavirus vaccine.

Atherosclerosis is the build-up of fatty material (atheroma) inside your arteries. It’s a potentially serious condition that causes most heart attacks and strokes but often goes unnoticed.

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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...

We have come together with fellow organisations to turn the tide and improve the health of the population.

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.

An international team of scientists we helped fund have developed a genetic tool that can spot someones risk of having a heart at as an adult much earlier in life.

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