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Our survey involving almost 5,000 people living with conditions such as a heart attack, stroke and heart failure finds that many are not getting the support they need.

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University of Glasgow | Professor Colin Berry

In 2011, the British Heart Foundation funded a study to look at the best way to decide which treatment to give to people who had recently had a heart attack. This showed that measuring the ‘pressure drop’ in a narrowed artery – something ca...

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Queen's University Belfast | Professor Gerard Linden

Gum disease is caused by bacteria that build up on the teeth, resulting in dental plaque. As the plaque progresses, the gum comes away from the teeth leaving pockets into which bacteria spread, causing inflammation and infection. During nor...

According to the news headlines, drinking green tea could prevent deaths from heart attacks or strokes. We look behind the headlines.

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University of Sussex | Dr Jeremy Niven

Supervised by Dr Jeremy Niven, a PhD student is studying heart cells from fruit flies to explore its use as a model for heart and circulatory disease research. Despite their obvious stark differences, fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaste...

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University of Aberdeen | Professor Stefan Hoppler

Professors Stefan Hoppler and Kevin Docherty are looking at how the heart and circulatory system develop in embryos. Understanding how this tissue develops in the early stages will help scientists to recreate heart cell development in the l...

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University of East Anglia | Professor Andrea E Munsterberg

Professor Andrea Munsterberg is working out which molecules and signals play a role in heart formation in the developing embryo. Early on, immature cells that will form the heart, called progenitor ‘master’ cells, are instructed by signa...