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Heart care waiting list doubles in three years in England
Latest NHS England figures published today show that the number of people on cardiac waiting lists has risen to a record high of 389,266 at the end of April 2023 in England.
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The atrioventricular node - unravelling the intricacies behind our heart beatUniversity of Bristol | Professor Jules Hancox
Research that reveals more about how the heartbeat is controlled is important to our understanding of how the heart works and could potentially reveal new ways to treat some types of irregular heartbeat (arrhythmias). Our heart is divide...
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Heart patients warned to take extra care with coronavirus threat
People with heart and circulatory conditions should take extra precautions as the threat of coronavirus increases.
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Studying heart and blood vessel development in zebrafishUniversity of Sheffield | Professor Tim Chico
Dr Timothy Chico and his team are studying the way that our heart and blood vessels develop. Understanding this better may reveal new ways to treat heart disease. In this project, Dr Chico is studying minute hair-like structures, called...
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Studying bacteria that cause heart device infectionsUniversity of York | Professor Jennifer Potts
Devices such as blood vessel catheters and pacemakers have revolutionised how we treat people with heart and circulatory disease. But these devices can become infected by bacterial biofilms, which are groups of bacteria that clump together ...
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Monitoring heart valve disease by improving the reliability of echocardiographyImperial College London | Professor Darrel Francis
People with moderately narrowed or leaky heart valves, mostly the mitral valve or aortic valve, need to have ultrasound scans to determine when they need an operation. But the technique used to monitor severity, called echocardiography, alt...
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Predicting future risk of heart disease in childrenUniversity of Southampton | Professor Mark Hanson
Professor Mark Hanson and his team at the University of Southampton are studying how a mother’s diet and behaviour affects her child’s risk of heart and circulatory disease in the future. As part of the Southampton Women’s Survey, Profes...
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Invasive treatment could reduce subsequent heart attacks in older patients
New research we've funded has found that an invasive treatment approach is a safe option to help reduce risk of subsequent heart attacks in older patients.
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Drug could be repurposed to help heart attack patients
Drugs currently undergoing development to treat anaemia could be repurposed to help prevent people with Type 2 diabetes from developing heart failure, according to new research funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
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Unravelling the genes behind heart and large blood vessel developmentNewcastle University | Dr Simon Bamforth
Dr Simon Bamforth and colleagues at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne are studying what genes are important during the development of the major blood vessels in the chest, which carry blood to and from the heart, and around the body. Ma...