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PTSD after heart problems
Find out how experiences like heart attacks and cardiac arrests can cause PTSD and how PTSD symptoms are treated, with helpful tips from a specialist psychologist.
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RESEARCH
Studying thickening at the tip of the heart in athletes and non-athletesUniversity College London | Professor James Moon
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a form of heart muscle disease that can be caused by faults in certain genes. It causes the heart muscle wall to thicken abnormally and people with these changes are at risk of dying suddenly from danger...
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How does mechanical stress affect your heart and blood vessels?
Part two in our series looking at stress and the heart.
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My journey from combat medic to civilian nurse
Our Senior Cardiac Nurse, Barbara Kobson, shares her inspirational story from the British Army to The British Heart Foundation.
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Top tips on donating to charity shops after a declutter
We give some insider tips on how to donate your pre-loved items to charity after a declutter.
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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.
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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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What is a lung function test?
Our Senior Cardiac Nurse finds out what’s involved in a lung function test, including what you need to do to prepare and how long results take.
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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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RESEARCH
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...