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Dr Hazel Wallace aka. The Food Medic is officially announced as BHF ambassador. On Saturday, Hazel got to meet our One Beat Members at a cookery workshop.

Researchers can now grow a model of a patient’s blood vessel wall in a dish from a small sample of their blood. The technology could be used to create personalised testing kits for new drugs and advance research into diseases of the blood vessels including stroke, heart attack and vascular dementia.

Cardiovascular disease is the name for conditions that affect your heart or circulation. These include high blood pressure, stroke and vascular dementia. Find out what causes it, symptoms and how it's treated.

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University of Nottingham | Professor David Bates

Throughout our life, new blood vessels grow to maintain a healthy circulatory system – a process called angiogenesis. However, the formation of new blood vessels can also occur in conditions such as heart disease and diabetes and can lead t...

BHF Senior Cardiac Nurse Regina Giblin explains ‘intermittent claudication’, the medical term for pain in the legs when walking. It is a sign of peripheral arterial disease (PAD), also known as peripheral vascular disease (PVD).

From keeping your legs elevated to eating a healthy diet and staying active, find out how to help boost your blood flow if you have poor circulation.

Find out how science will help improve treatment for chest pain with world-leading expert Dr Rasha Al-Lamee.

Senior Dietitian Tracy Parker says most people need to eat more fibre from whole foods like fruit and vegetables, and warns against powders and supplements and extreme fibremaxxing.

Atrial fibrillation is one of the most common types of abnormal heart rhythm. Learn more about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of atrial fibrillation.

Diuretics are useful in treating heart failure, a condition in which the body holds too much water. They encourage kidneys to release water in the urine.