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Urgent funding is needed to increase heart failure nurse numbers, education and expertise across NHS Scotland, finds a new review of services.

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University of Oxford | Dr Oliver Rider

Although obesity increases the chance of developing heart failure, when patients have heart failure they may live longer if they are obese. This unexpected finding is termed the 'obesity paradox' and the reasons behind it are currently unkn...

The first successful UK heart transplant was an important milestone in medical history. Sarah Brealey explains how we're meeting the continuing transplant challenges.

Find out how Maggie Sewell approaches the challenges of living with a congenital heart condition, having been born with a hole in her heart, and a leaky valve.

BHF Senior Dietitian, Tracy Parker, explains what a DASH diet meal plan involves, such as eating plenty of fibre and cutting down on salt, to help lower high blood pressure.

Coronary heart disease patients living with other long-term health conditions.

This year's European Society of Cardiology Congress was held in person for the first time since 2019. As usual, the conference was bursting with breakthroughs in heart and circulatory diseases research. Here are seven things we learnt.

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Kingston University London | Dr Andrew Snabaitis

In this studentship, the researchers will study the function of a family of enzymes, the protein phosphatases (PP2A, PP4 and PP6) and their regulatory protein, alpha 4, in heart cells. They believe that these enzymes are involved in contro...

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University of Bristol | Professor Jules Hancox

Our heart is divided into four chambers – two upper ‘atria’ and two lower ‘ventricles’. Between the atria and ventricles, there is a small region of the heart called the atrioventricular node (AVN). The AVN receives the electrical signal ne...