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University of Manchester | Dr Ashraf Kitmitto

Heart complications are a major cause of death in people with diabetes and these complications are often associated with abnormal contraction of the heart. A protein called the ryanodine receptor (RyR) helps to control heart contraction by ...

Confidence is often shaken following a heart event. We get tips on recovery from those who've been there and two leading psychologists. Read more.

There are few who don’t enjoy warming up by a fire in winter or sitting around a fire pit outside in the summer. Yet few people know that open fires and wood burners release pollutants into the air known as PM2.5, which can seriously damage your heart and circulatory health.

Find out how about hot weather can affect you, especially during the coronavirus outbreak, and what you should do to stay cool.

Research we've funded at the University of Oxford has identified a drug, currently in clinical trials for another condition, that could reduce the risk that people with diabetes will go on to develop heart failure after a heart attack.

RESEARCH

University of Leicester | Professor Leong Ng

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is when the heart can still contract, but the heart muscle may be stiffer than normal, making it less efficient. This project aims to find signals in the blood, called biomarkers that c...

Out of the 75 proposals received, 4 have been shortlisted, but which research team will come out on top and win the Big Beat Challenge?

Find out how BHF-funded researchers are using heart CT scans to help prevent, diagnose and treat heart disease.

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2-3 May 2026

Location

Isle of Wight

Take on the Isle of Wight Challenge and walk to raise fund for our life saving research.