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What is the role of potassium channels in heart health and disease?Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Andrew Tinker
Professor Andrew Tinker and his team at Queen Mary University of London are investigating proteins on the cell surface called ATP-sensitive potassium channels to find out their role in heart and circulatory disease. As well as letting p...
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BHF Professor Barbara Casadei appointed Head of the National Heart and Lung Institute
Leading cardiologist and BHF Professor Barbara Casadei has been appointed as head of the National Heart and Lung Institute (NHLI), Imperial College London.
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AI to help GPs identify those at high risk of heart-related death
A new artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm can identify those at highest risk of conditions leading to heart-related death, including kidney failure and diabetes, according to new research funded by us presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress
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Do our behaviours as young adults affect our long term heart disease risk?University College London | Professor Alun Hughes
Professor Alun Hughes is studying how events in early adulthood influence our risk of heart and circulatory disease and diabetes in later life. We already know that events in the womb and in childhood influence our likelihood of developi...
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The Whitehall II study – can controlling heart disease risk factors result in healthy aging?University College London | Professor Eric Brunner
Since 1985, the Whitehall II study has followed the health and wellbeing of over 10,000 civil service workers. Part-funded by the BHF, it has shaped our understanding of the social causes of heart disease, including revealing that people in...
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How does inflammation in the hearts smallest blood vessels contribute to heart failure?King's College London | Professor Simon Redwood
Researchers at St Thomas’ Hospital are trying to understand a form of heart failure that’s currently very hard to treat. Heart failure occurs when the heart can’t pump enough blood around the body and is a major cause of death and disabi...
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Cracking the code heart cells use to encourage growth of blood vesselsUniversity of Bristol | Dr Rebecca Richardson
One of the ways the heart repairs itself after a heart attack is by making new blood vessels to restore blood flow to the injured cells as they recover. Damaged cells can send tiny packages, called extracellular vesicles, which contain code...
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A nationwide study of diseases that occur in the years following a heart attackUniversity of Leeds | Dr Marlous Hall
A heart attack occurs when the blood supply to part of the heart muscle is blocked. In the UK more than 100,000 hospital admissions each year are due to heart attacks and they can be fatal. However, survival rates have improved dramaticall...
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Study suggests AI model can identify women at higher risk of heart disease from ECGs
An AI model can identify women at higher risk of heart disease from ECG, according to research we've funded.
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Deciphering the roles of BMP9 and BMP10 in heart and lung health and diseaseUniversity of Cambridge | Professor Nicholas Morrell
Pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH, is a serious condition where the small arteries inside the lungs become narrow. This puts a strain on the heart, which has to pump harder to force the blood supply through these narrowed lung vessels...