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  • Food portions

    What is the healthy amount of fruit and veg you need to eat to keep a balanced diet? Our portion guides are available to view online or download as a PDF.

  • RESEARCH

    Prevention of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery

    University of Leicester | Professor Gavin Murphy

    Kidney injury after cardiac surgery affects over a quarter of heart operations, and increases the risk of other severe complications developing. BHF Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Gavin Murphy and colleagues at the University of Leicester, w...

  • RESEARCH

    Do anti-platelet drugs keep the small blood vessels in the heart free of blood clots?

    University of Birmingham | Dr Neena Kalia

    A heart attack happens when a blood clot blocks a coronary artery – a blood vessel supplying the heart muscle with blood. A stent is usually inserted into the affected artery to allow blood flow to be restored (reperfusion). Two drugs ar...

  • BHF awards £35 million funding to top UK universities

    We've awarded £35 million funding to nine leading UK universities, helping to strengthen work-leading cardiovascular disease research in the UK. The awards allow researchers flexibility to quickly launch ambitious projects and will help universities to attract the brightest minds, nurture new talent and foster collaboration.

  • South Asians almost twice as likely to develop coronary heart disease than White Europeans

    South Asians are almost twice as likely to develop coronary heart disease than White Europeans, according to research presented today at the British Cardiovascular Society conference in Manchester.

  • Act on mystery chest pain to reduce risk of heart attack, researchers urge

    Future heart attacks could be better prevented in people visiting their GP with unexplained chest pain, after researchers we've funded developed the clearest picture yet of the factors that put them at higher risk.

  • Weight loss surgery could cut heart failure risk

    Weight loss surgery may reduce the risk of developing heart failure for people living with obesity by improving blood flow through their heart muscle, according to research we've funded.

  • Office workers fear sitting too long could be impacting their health

    Almost half of women (45%) and almost two fifths of men (37%) working in UK offices spend less than 30 minutes a day walking around at work, according to new statistics released ahead of the first On Your Feet Britain campaign to get office workers moving more.

  • Good HDL cholesterol and heart disease

    'Good' HDL cholesterol has puzzled researchers for many years. Despite studies showing raising it reduces heart disease risk, clinical trials where HDL cholesterol was raised have shown little promise. Our researchers, working in an international collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania, have shone new light on the mystery.

  • Children become less active each year of primary school

    A new study we funded shows that by age 11, children are doing more than an hour less of physical activity a week than at age 6.

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