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Covid-19: what it means if you have a heart condition
Covid-19 can cause serious illness if you have a heart or circulatory disease. Find out who’s at risk of serious illness, what to do if you test positive and how to manage symptoms.
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Uncovering the actions of oestrogen in heart rhythm controlImperial College London | Professor Kenneth MacLeod
Heart failure affects hundreds of thousands of people in the UK. It occurs when the heart lacks the power to pump strongly, and also becomes prone to dangerous abnormalities in heart rhythm. Studies have shown that progression of the diseas...
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Understanding how abnormalities in the main blood vessels of the heart occurUniversity College London | Professor Christiana Ruhrberg
Some congenital heart conditions affect the major vessels that connect the heart to rest of the circulation. This can include the aorta and its branches, or vessels that connect arteries in the lungs to the heart. After birth, holes or misc...
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Does our heart have an internal clock that sets its rhythm?University of Manchester | Professor Mark R Boyett
Professor Mark Boyett wants to find out if the day-night cycle affects heart rhythm. A healthy heart steadily pumps blood around the body. An abnormal heart rhythm that is irregular, or is too fast or too slow is called an arrhythmia. I...
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M114 Evaluation of Big Lottery Fund and British Heart Foundation Cardiac Rehabilitation ProgrammeOther, 134 pages, published on 15/05/2009
Final report of a three year evaluation into Big Lottery Fund cardiac rehabilitation programme, supported by the British Heart Foundation.
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From bug to drug: engineering new heart drugs from tick salivaUniversity of Oxford | Professor Shoumo Bhattacharya
Inflammation plays a role in several heart and circulatory diseases, including myocarditis – inflammation of the heart tissue. It is a very serious condition, which has a poor prognosis and no effective treatment. BHF Professor Shoumo Bhatt...
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Study improves understanding of how air pollution causes heart disease
Our research has found that tiny nanoparticles, like those found in air pollution, can travel into the blood and accumulate in diseased blood vessels.
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First patient has gene therapy which could help heart bypass last longer
A heart attack survivor is the first person to receive groundbreaking gene therapy which aims to prevent coronary artery bypass grafts failing. The clinical trial now underway in Glasgow is the result of many years of research, much of it funded by us.
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How do genetic faults cause inherited heart muscle diseases?Imperial College London | Professor Steven B Marston
Diseases of the heart muscle are called cardiomyopathies and can cause heart failure and sudden death, even in young people. Two of these conditions – hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) – are caused by faults...
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Research beyond the heart
The BHF funds more than £100m of research every year, looking at conditions that affect every part of the body.