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Understanding factors that make exercise difficult for people with heart failureUniversity of Leeds | Dr Carrie Ferguson
People who have heart failure can sometimes find it difficult to carry out day-to-day activities because they experience breathlessness or leg tiredness. This means they may have difficulty with exercise, and they are sometimes said to have...
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Could exercise help to prevent sudden death in heart failure?University of Leeds | Dr Al Benson
Dr Al Benson and his team at the University of Leeds are studying whether exercise could help to reduce the damage to the heart that occurs during heart failure, where the heart cannot pump blood around the body effectively. When a person...
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How exercise affects the heart’s small blood vessels in microvascular anginaKing's College London | Professor Divaka Perera
Supervised by Dr Divaka Perera, this Clinical Research Training Fellow wants to understand more about microvascular disease, when the small blood vessels in the heart’s circulation don’t work properly. Around a third of people with angin...
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Understanding if preterm birth affects heart development and ability to exercise in adultsUniversity of Oxford | Professor Paul Leeson
Professor Paul Leeson and colleagues from the University of Oxford will spend three years characterising the potential effects of premature birth on the long-term health of the heart and circulatory function. Nearly 10% of deliveries worldw...
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Studying what causes angina after exerciseKing's College London | Professor Simon Redwood
Supervised by Professor Simon Redwood, this Clinical Research Training Fellow is studying angina, chest pain that occurs when the blood supply to the heart muscle is restricted. Coronary heart disease – when the arteries supplying the h...
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Trialling physical exercise and psychological support in the treatment of ’broken heart syndrome’University of Aberdeen | Professor Dana Dawson
Stress-induced cardiomyopathy – also known as ‘broken heart syndrome’ and ‘takotsubo syndrome’ –is a rare condition where major emotional stress causes symptoms like a heart attack, without blockage of the coronary heart arteries. People w...
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Can MRI scanning during exercise predict heart failure in people with pulmonary arterial hypertension?Imperial College London | Dr Declan O'Regan
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is caused by abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries carrying blood to the lungs, which results in damage to the right side of the heart. Symptoms include breathlessness or tiredness, and can lea...
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The brain-heart connection in health and diseaseUniversity College London | Professor Alexander Gourine
BHF-funded researchers at University College London are studying the connection between our brain and heart, and how activity through this connection declines in heart disease. Specialised nerves connect our brain to our heart. These nerve...
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Why are endurance athletes more prone to abnormal heart rhythms?University of Manchester | Professor Mark R Boyett
Our heart requires an electrical signal to beat correctly. When this signal breaks down, disturbances in the heart beat called arrhythmias occur. Arrhythmias can cause serious health problems and even sudden death. We know that athletes who...
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Can exercise cause heart muscle changes that resemble cardiomyopathy?St George's, University of London | Professor Sanjay Sharma
Supervised by Professor Sanjay Sharma, this Clinical Research Training Fellowship is focusing on finding out whether intense physical activity can cause heart muscle remodelling that resembles a rare heart muscle disease called Left Ventric...