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Heart attack
Learn about the causes of a heart attack, how a heart attack is diagnosed, treated and how to take care of yourself at home and in the hospital.
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Designing a drug to combat dangerous circulation problemsUniversity of Nottingham | Professor David Bates
Many people with heart and circulatory disease have arteries that progressively narrow and block, cutting off blood supply to the tissues beyond. In about half of these cases, the body tries to circumvent this problem by growing new blood v...
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Three clinical trials exploring the best ways to treat high blood pressureQueen Mary, University of London | Professor Morris Brown
One important, unanswered question about treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension) is why many people on therapy still have poorly controlled blood pressure. Professor Morris Brown and colleagues are conducting three important clinica...
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Research excellence at the University of GlasgowUniversity of Glasgow | Professor Rhian Touyz
The University of Glasgow has received nearly £3 million over the next five years to establish a BHF Centre of Research Excellence in Vascular Science and Medicine led by new BHF professor Rhian Touyz. In 2008, the BHF began a £34 millio...
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Stopping the heart from changing shape and size after damageUniversity of Leeds | Dr Neil Turner
Leeds researchers are uncovering how cardiac fibroblast cells, the cells that help form the structural scaffold of the heart, alter the size and shape of the heart during disease. The heart is made up of several different types of cells. ...
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Looking for inflammation in early life that sets the stage for heart diseaseUniversity College London | Professor John E Deanfield
Inflammation can cause changes to arteries and blood that increase the risk of heart and circulatory diseases in later life. Some teenagers and young adults already show signs of these changes, but why this happens isn’t fully understood. ...
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Can beetroot juice supplements help babies grow well in the womb?University of Manchester | Dr Elizabeth Cottrell
BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Elizabeth Cottrell is studying ways to prevent foetal growth restriction, or FGR - when a baby’s growth in the womb slows or stops. FGR increases the risk of stillbirth, and babies are m...
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Understanding more about what controls the heartbeatUniversity of Leicester | Dr Richard D Rainbow
Dr Richard Rainbow and his colleagues at the University of Leicester are studying an ion channel called Kir6.1 that is important in controlling the heartbeat. The heartbeat is controlled by the flow of electrical currents in or out of hear...
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Searching for the causes of congenital heart diseaseUniversity of Oxford | Dr Duncan Sparrow
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common human birth defect, affecting around one in 100 babies. Heart defects can occur because of faulty genes inherited from the parents, or they can be caused by environmental factors in the womb...
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Working out how obesity is a risk factor for blood vessel diseaseUniversity of Oxford | Professor Charalambos Antoniades
BHF Senior Clinical Research Fellow Professor Charalambos Antoniades is working out why obesity is a risk factor for blood vessel disease, leading to heart attacks and strokes. Fat, or adipose tissue, produces various molecules that hav...