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106-year-old fundraiser, Joan Willett, is honoured with the Prime Minister's Point of Light award for raising over £60,000 for the BHF in the lead up to her 104th birthday

It’s important to know your blood pressure and try to keep it down. But is there a risk in going too low?

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University of Bristol | Professor Russell Jago

We know that keeping active and doing exercise helps to keep our hearts healthy, whilst sitting for long periods of time, whether watching TV, playing computer games or surfing the internet, can lead to high blood pressure and a higher risk...

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Imperial 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...

Leaders from the NIHR-BHF Framework have approved seven new UK Covid-19 projects.

A small study has found that listening to classical music, like Mozart or Strauss, for 25 minutes could reduce your blood pressure. We look behind the headlines.

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University of Oxford | Professor Masliza Mahmod

Aortic stenosis (AS) is the narrowing of the valve opening of the major artery in the heart. This limits blood flow through the valve, meaning the heart has to pump harder. Research has shown that people with AS tend to have fatty deposits ...

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Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Andrew Tinker

The heart pumps blood round the body and the blood vessels supply oxygen to organs such as brain. This isn't a static system; it needs to be tuned in conditions where there is high demand for oxygen, such as during exercise, and at times wh...

We’ve teamed up with Full Potential to offer you a guide to the practical challenges of training through Ramadan and give you some top tips to succeed.

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