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Coronary heart disease
Coronary heart disease is when your coronary arteries become narrowed by a gradual build-up of fatty material within their walls. Find out more about the causes, prevention and treatment of CHD
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Heart failure - BRAVO
BRAVO explored whether a simple measurement of blood pressure could help improve the settings of these pacemakers, maximising their benefit.
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Heart failure - TRED-HF
The BHF funded the TRED-HF trial to find out if it is safe for people with dilated cardiomyopathy without symptoms of heart failure to stop taking their medication.
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Creating state-of-the-art facilities to study heart functionUniversity College London | Professor Alun Hughes
BHF is helping to fund an imaging centre which aims to provide state of-the-art, highly precise images to help research teams understand heart and circulatory diseases. Based at UCL, the BCCP exploits the power of advanced scanning and i...
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Studying skin cells in ARVC to understand heart rhythm disturbancesQueen Mary, University of London | Professor David Kelsell
Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is an inherited disorder of heart muscle that can cause dangerous abnormal heart rhythms, heart failure and even sudden death. There is an urgent need to understand the causes and proce...
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Understanding and avoiding side effects caused by statinsUniversity of Oxford | Professor Rebecca Sitsapesan
Statins are effective cholesterol-lowering drugs that reduce people’s risk of heart attacks and strokes. However, some people taking statins can experience side effects in their muscles. In very rare cases, it can lead to a potentially fata...
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Investigating how nerve cells protect the heart’s left ventricleUniversity College London | Professor Alexander Gourine
The brain controls how our hearts work by sending commands via specialised nerves, which produce rapid changes in heartbeat rate and determine how hard the heart needs to work, such as during exercise. Dr Alexander Gourine at University ...
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Finding out what controls the location of nerves in the heartUniversity of Oxford | Dr Mathilda Mommersteeg
Dr Mathilda Mommersteeg is studying how the nervous system is involved in heart and circulatory disease, and what controls the location of nerves within the heart. Although the heart beats on its own, the heart’s nerve supply helps to a...
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Finding blood biomarkers that predict the need for aortic valve replacementUniversity of Leicester | Professor Leong Ng
Aortic stenosis (AS) is a very common heart valve disease which restricts blood flow out of the heart. Many patients experience breathlessness or chest pain with exercise. Currently, the only effective treatment is replacing the valve in pa...
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UK flagship projects
Leaders from the NIHR-BHF Framework have approved seven new UK Covid-19 projects.