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Imperial College London | Professor Costanza Emanueli

Professor Emanueli and her team want to understand the damaging molecular messengers sent to heart cells in diabetes. Having diabetes increases a person’s risk of developing coronary heart disease, and it makes the disease worse by damag...

The best way of identifying people at high risk of coronary heart disease following chest pain or angina is an MRI scan according to research we funded.

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University of Aberdeen | Professor Dana Dawson

Stress-induced cardiomyopathy – also known as ‘broken heart syndrome’ and ‘takotsubo syndrome’ –is a rare condition where major emotional stress causes symptoms like a heart attack, without blockage of the coronary heart arteries. People w...

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University of Sheffield | Professor Robert Storey

Sheffield researchers will test whether twice-daily low-dose aspirin could be safer than a once-daily standard dose for heart attack prevention. A heart attack occurs when a blood clot blocks a coronary artery feeding the heart. People who...

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University of Dundee | Professor Allan Struthers

People with kidney disease frequently develop cardiovascular disease. This is thought to occur because the strain created by kidney disease causes enlargement of one of the chambers of the heart (a condition called left ventricular hypertro...

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Queen Mary, University of London | Dr Maria Paula Longhi

In this Intermediate Research Fellowship, Dr Paula Longhi, working at Queen Mary, University of London, will investigate how dendritic cells of the immune system contribute to atherosclerosis, the disease that underlies coronary heart disea...

There could be at least 12,000 extra heart attacks and strokes over the next five years without bold Government intervention.

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University of Oxford | Professor Barbara Casadei

BHF Professor Casadei, at the University of Oxford, is researching the causes of the abnormal heart rhythm, atrial fibrillation (AF), and has identified an important protective role for a gas called nitric oxide (NO). Professor Casadei has...

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University of Leeds | Professor Edward White

Researchers in the UK and France are testing a new theory that could change the treatment of irregular heart rhythms. Irregular heart rhythms – when the heart beat is too fast, too slow, ‘fluttering’, or chaotic – are called arrhythmias. T...