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BHF Senior Dietitian, Dell Standford, explains how much fat you should eat, the difference between saturated and unsaturated fats, and which fatty foods and oils are healthy.

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Royal Veterinary College, University of London | Dr Caroline Pellet Many

Dr Caroline Pellet Many and her colleagues at University College London are studying atherosclerosis, a complex disorder of blood vessels that is a major cause of heart and circulatory disease. In patients with atherosclerosis, blood vessel...

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University of Oxford | Professor Keith Channon

Researchers know that a molecule called BH4 is very important to the circulatory system. However it appears to have two opposing functions. High levels of BH4 in cells that line blood vessels (endothelial cells) protect against disease by h...

Sudden arrhythmic death syndrome, or SADS, is when someone dies suddenly following a cardiac arrest and no obvious cause can be found.

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University of Oxford | Dr Oliver Rider

Supervised by Dr Oliver Rider, a Clinical Research Training Fellow is working out what causes different types of left ventricular hypertrophy, or LVH. In LVH, the heart muscle enlarges. It can occur naturally in response to exercise train...

We have appointed distinguished research leader and NHS Consultant Physician, Professor Bryan Williams, as our first Chief Scientific and Medical Officer.

The Asian Business Board are a group of business leaders who are raising vital funds in support of BHF’s lifesaving research.

A £2.3 million clinical trial we funded has found that devices designed to reduce the risk of TAVI patients having a stroke have no impact on their stroke risk.

Some people with Marfan syndrome have weak blood vessels which are at risk of bursting. This can be fatal. We’ve been funding research to stop this.