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  • 'Wegovy' weight loss drug could improve heart failure symptoms

    The weight loss medication semaglutide – better known as Wegovy – can benefit people living with heart failure and obesity, according to research presented today at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Amsterdam and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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    Developing more realistic and reliable models of the heart

    Imperial College London | Professor Cesare M N Terracciano

    One of the challenges in studying heart diseases is developing more accurate ways to replicate what happens inside the body. Because the cells of the heart work under constantly changing physical and chemical conditions, they have unique ...

  • New report assesses impact of physical inactivity on UK heart health and economy

    More than 20million UK adults are classified as physically inactive increasing their risk of heart disease and costing the UK health service as much as £1.2billion each year according to our new report.

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    Understanding heart scarring in atrial fibrillation

    Queen's University Belfast | Dr David Simpson

    Atrial fibrillation (AF) – abnormal beating of the heart – often occurs because scar tissue has formed in the heart. This process is called fibrosis. The aim of this project is to understand more about the cells that cause fibrosis, to deve...

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    Targeting RNAs to prevent heart attacks

    University of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker

    When protein molecules are produced from genes contained within DNA, there is an intermediate molecule called RNA that, until recently, was thought to simply be there to produce the protein. Now, scientists know that there are hundreds of t...

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    Teaching the heart to repair itself

    University of Oxford | Professor Paul Riley

    The BHF funds three pioneering Centres of Regenerative Medicine at top UK universities. Each centre has a different scientific focus, but together they are moving us closer to our goal of unlocking ways to repair the damage caused by a hear...

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    Support after a heart attack (easy read)

    Easy Read, 24, published on 03/09/2025

    An easy read booklet about support after a heart attack. Our easy read booklets use simple language and pictures to tell you about support you can get after a heart attack.

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    How cardiac hypertrophy leads to heart rhythm disturbances

    University of Surrey | Dr Rita Jabr

    Dr Rita Jabr and Professor Christopher Fry from the University of Surrey will be investigating the potentially dangerous disturbances to heart rhythm that can occur as a result of cardiac hypertrophy. Cardiac hypertrophy is enlargement of t...

  • Deaths from coronary heart disease plummet

    Reducing the nation’s blood pressure and cholesterol levels helped prevent over 20,000 people from dying prematurely from coronary heart disease according to a new study.

  • Injectable gel to repair damage after a heart attack

    Researchers we’ve funded have developed a new biodegradable gel that can help to improve the delivery of cells directly into the living heart and could form a new generation of treatments to repair damage caused by a heart attack. This research was presented at the British Cardiovascular Society conference in Manchester.