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Our London to Brighton Bike Ride is back
The British Heart Foundation's much-loved London to Brighton Bike Ride will be returning on Sunday 19th June 2022, after being cancelled for the last two years due to the pandemic. We are expecting record interest in the event after the three-year break and have launched a ballot system to give everyone a fair chance of making it to the start line. We are encouraging cyclists of all abilities to enter the ballot now.
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Pacemaker study to help heart patients avoid hospital
New research that we're funding at The University of Manchester has the potential to help patients stay out of hospital. By monitoring data collected by pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), researchers hope to use patients' activity levels to predict when they might be becoming ill, and intervene before a hospital stay becomes necessary.
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New Sheffield research could help to develop preventative treatments for heart disease
Researchers at the University of Sheffield are studying if ‘turning off’ a protein helps to prevent heart attacks & strokes with funding from the British Heart Foundation
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British Heart Foundation and UK Dementia Research Institute announce Centre for Vascular Dementia Research
BHF and UK DRI have today announced plans for the UK’s first research Centre dedicated to finding new treatments to prevent, halt and cure vascular dementia.
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RESEARCH
A three dimensional sat-nav for the heartImperial College London | Professor Peter Kohl
The heart is amazingly complex, yet astonishingly robust in its response to changing conditions, from exercise to aging, disease and even transplantation to another body. This ability to adapt over milliseconds to years is based on cell lev...
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What factors influence the severity of ARVC?University College London | Dr Srijita Sen Chowdhry
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is an inherited heart muscle disease, where heart muscle can be replaced by fibrous fatty tissue. It is thought to affect at least 1 in 1000 people. Many people have a mild form of ARV...
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Studying the effects of iron deficiency and replacement on people with heart failureKing's College London | Dr Darlington Okonko
Heart failure is debilitating because the heart can’t respond to the demands of the body. Many people with heart failure also lack enough iron in their body, which worsens symptoms. However, little is known about the effect of iron on the h...
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Arrhythmias
Having an arrhythmia or abnormal heart rhythm means your heart is beating too fast, too slow or in an irregular pattern. Learn about symptoms, diagnosis and treatment for arrhythmias.
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Understanding how heart disease risk begins before you’re born
Did you know that your parents’ health and lifestyle can influence your risk of heart disease? We’ve been funding research to better understand this.
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Funding the researchers of the future
Over the past 60 years, BHF support has enabled the training of generations of researchers and supported world-leading scientists to make discoveries that have helped save and improve people’s lives.