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Your QRISK score is a valuable tool to understand your risk of heart disease. Discover what it is, how it works, and what it means for you and your health.

One of the largest ever grants of its kind, applications for the £30m Big Beat Challenge are now open worldwide

BHF Northern Ireland's NCD report (non-communicable diseases include heart disease, stroke, diabetes, cancer, and lung disease). NCDs are responsible for more than four out of five deaths in Northern Ireland.

Particles in air pollution cause a wide range of damaging effects to the cardiovascular system, according to a landmark report published last week.

While 100 per cent of profits from collections run by us stay with the charity, the proportion of profits from commercial collections that go to the partner charity can be as low as 5 per cent.

Chest pain can be caused by angina, myocarditis or a heart attack, but it's not always related to your heart. Other common causes include anxiety, heartburn and muscle pain.

According to new research, men in their early 60s have a higher risk of dying from cardiovascular disease on hotter than usual summer nights. We look behind the headlines.

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Date

29 March 2026

Location

Edinburgh

Kilomathon takes place in Edinburgh and is run on the beautiful Edinburgh cycle path network. Choose from 13.1K and 6.5K distances

During lockdown, many members of the public have been busy picking up new crafty hobbies, from upcycling furniture to giving a well-loved T-shirt an overhaul. Now, launching on 1st October for one month, The Big Stitch is encouraging shoppers to pop to their nearest British Heart Foundation (BHF) charity shop, buy an item and use their skills and creativity to give it a new look, to help raise funds for life saving research.

A new NC3Rs & BHF grant will allow scientists at Manchester Metropolitan University to develop a new way to study the formation of dangerous blood clots.