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Find out more about women's heart attack signs and symptoms and if there are different symptoms for men and women.

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University of Oxford | Professor Neil Herring

This Oxford team will use innovative new techniques to understand how some failing hearts recover. Damage to the heart from many causes, including heart attacks, can lead to heart failure. This is where the heart is unable to pump well eno...

Find out why women who have heart attacks face poorer care than men, and what we're doing to change this.

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University of Edinburgh | Professor Brian R Walker

Chest pain and heart attacks occur when heart muscle is starved of oxygen as a result of coronary heart disease. The condition develops when arteries to the heart become narrow because of fatty build-up in the artery walls. Many factors inc...

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University of Manchester | Professor Anthony Heagerty

Professor Anthony Heagerty and his team at the University of Manchester are studying how obesity increases a person’s risk of diabetes and high blood pressure. Almost a quarter of UK adults are obese, but we don’t fully understand how obesi...

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