Search

Microvascular angina results from an abnormality of the tiny arteries in the heart muscle that play a key role in regulating blood supply to the heart.

With temperatures set to soar across parts of the UK from today, the British Heart Foundation (BHF) has warned of the potential dangers posed by the hot weather for people with heart conditions.

RESEARCH

University of Edinburgh | Professor Nicholas Mills

Firefighters are at an increased risk of having a cardiovascular event, like a heart attack. It is the commonest cause of death in these individuals, accounting for 45 per cent of deaths on duty. The reasons why remain unknown, but could be...

Delving behind the headlines: What is cholesterol? Why is it bad? Do statins actually work? We explore the science behind the news stories to find the answers

Learn more about atrial septal defects including the types, what causes them, treatments, and how to live with one.

Denis Collen, 60, from Stanmore, Middlesex, shares how a diagnosis of heart failure and diabetes spurred him to make healthy lifestyle changes.

RESEARCH

University of Birmingham | Dr Katja Gehmlich

The heart responds to repeated exercise and other stresses by becoming bigger in a process known as cardiac hypertrophy. In the inherited disease hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), hypertrophy is abnormal and takes place in the absence of e...

Our Senior Dietitian explains the maths behind a balanced diet. Learn how many calories you should eat a day, and how many calories you need to eat to lose weight.

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).

If you have heart failure, there's a lot you can do to help manage your condition and help stop it from getting worse. Professor Darrel Francis, Professor of Cardiology at Imperial College London, explains.