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  • Hina's story

    Hina had a heart attack in her thirties. She wanted to live long enough to see her children grow up. Thanks to your donations, Hina's dream has come true.

  • Vascular dementia: could research lead to new treatment?

    Discover how research could bring new treatment for vascular dementia in an interview with a group leader at the BHF-UK DRI Centre for Vascular Dementia Research.

  • Serum triglycerides: what level is too high?

    Find out what serum triglycerides are, what level is too high and how to reduce triglycerides, with tips from BHF Senior Dietitian Dell Stanford.

  • Medicines for heart conditions

    Medicines can help prevent or treat heart conditions, like high blood pressure, angina, heart attack and heart failure. They’re also used to keep symptoms under control. Some people take medicine for a short time and others may need to take it for longer.

  • Hot weather and your heart

    Find out how about hot weather can affect you, especially during the coronavirus outbreak, and what you should do to stay cool.

  • How inequalities contribute to heart and circulatory diseases

    Data has been brought together across prevention, treatment and outcomes by levels of deprivation in England, outlining health inequalities.

  • RESEARCH

    How do some people’s hearts recover from heart failure?

    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...

  • RESEARCH

    Understanding the impact of metabolites on heart function

    University of Oxford | Professor Craig Lygate

    Homoarginine (HA) and creatine are substances produced by the AGAT enzyme. Too little of either substance impairs heart function, and it’s thought that they may act together in the progression of heart failure. Low levels of HA are known t...

  • RESEARCH

    Why blood vessels can become like bone in old age

    King's College London | Professor Catherine Shanahan

    As we age, the smooth muscle cells that make up our blood vessels can start to calcify, becoming rigid like bone. The technical term for this phenomenon is vascular calcification. It can cause high blood pressure, heart attacks or strokes a...

  • 8000 UK women die due to unequal heart attack care

    More than 8,200 women in England and Wales could have survived their heart attacks had they simply been given the same quality of treatment as men.

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