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Amanda Holden and Ashley Roberts take on a fancy dress fitness challenge to highlight heart health and support the British Heart Foundation on World Heart Day 2020.

Cardiovascular events – such as heart attacks - are the leading cause of death among on-duty firefighters. The BHF funded the FIREPROOF study to find out why.

A new worldwide study funded by the British Heart Foundation at the University College London (UCL) will measure how certain physical behaviours, such as sitting for long periods of time, can impact health.

An international team of BHF-funded researchers may have discovered why a small number of people experience muscle pain after taking statins.

Stress can make you turn to unhealthy habits which increase your risk of heart and circulatory disease. Learn what stress is, whether it can cause high blood pressure or a heart attack and how to manage it.

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Learn what happens during an electrocardiogram (ECG) test, how long it will take, what an ECG can show, the different types of ECG, and check out our films about heart tests.

As temperatures soar across parts of the UK, we have warned of the potential dangers posed by the hot weather for people with heart conditions.

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RESEARCH

University of Oxford | Dr Gillian Douglas

Oxford researchers are uncovering how a newly-discovered gene relates to heart disease. Studies of the human genome have spotlighted a new gene that raises the risk of coronary heart disease. The gene has been named JCAD and, with BHF fu...