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Regardless of your genes a healthy lifestyle cuts stroke risk
New research we've funded shows that people at high risk of having a stroke due to their genetics can still substantially lower their stroke risk by adopting a healthy lifestyle.
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Strong Woman for Life
Build your strength, stamina and confidence with our expert-led programme for women over 45, while your monthly donation for taking part helps fund lifesaving research.
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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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Five Centres of Excellence in Public Health ResearchMedical Research Council | Mr. Unknown UKCRC Public Health Research Centres of Excellence
The British Heart Foundation is part of a consortium of funders that are renewing their support or five Centres of Excellence in Public Health Research, based in Newcastle, Cardiff, Belfast, Cambridge and Nottingham. The Centres of Excel...
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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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Nitric oxide signalling effects in healthy and diseased heartUniversity of Oxford | Dr Pawel Swietach
Heart failure reduces the pumping function of the heart, which can make even basic exercise almost impossible, disturb heart rhythm and shorten life expectancy. Researchers are trying to understand what controls the normal synchronised cont...
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Why do people with diabetes develop heart failure?University of Leicester | Professor Gerald McCann
Supervised by Professor Gerald McCann, the Clinical Research Training Fellow on this grant is working out why heart failure develops in people with diabetes and if there are ways to detect it early. Heart failure is one of the main caus...
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London Mayor amongst 14,000 riders cycling from London to Brighton for BHF
Lifesavers, heart patients and the Mayor of London amongst the thousands pedalling for research on the 48th London to Brighton Bike Ride for the BHF
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Neck scan predicts cognitive decline decade in advance
A five minute scan of blood vessels in the neck during mid-life predicts cognitive decline ten years before symptoms appear.
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PureGym makes heart health a priority this Heart Month
PureGym has installed a defibrillator in each of its gyms to help improve cardiac arrest survival rates in the UK. The UK’s leading gym chain has also been raising money this Heart Month, to support us in our work in helping people prevent, treat and manage their heart conditions.