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Can a BH4 supplement help prevent diabetic cardiomyopathy?University of Oxford | Dr Ricardo Carnicer Hijazo
BHF Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellow Dr Ricardo Carnicer is studying ways to treat diabetic cardiomyopathy. The condition is specific to people with diabetes and affects the pumping ability of heart muscle, which can lead to heart...
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We collect the most comprehensive statistics on the effects, prevention, treatment, costs and causes of cardiovascular disease in the UK.
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Five Centres of Excellence in Public Health ResearchMedical Research Council | Mr. Unknown UKCRC Public Health Research Centres of Excellence
The British Heart Foundation is part of a consortium of funders that are renewing their support or five Centres of Excellence in Public Health Research, based in Newcastle, Cardiff, Belfast, Cambridge and Nottingham. The Centres of Excel...
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Assessment of the angiotensin hormones as potential new treatments in cardiovascular diseaseUniversity of Glasgow | Professor Stuart A Nicklin
Heart and circulatory disease is Scotland's biggest killer and new treatments are urgently needed. Hormones are chemical messengers that circulate in the blood to control the activity of the circulatory system and organs such as the heart. ...
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Understanding and modelling the heart’s wiring systemUniversity of Manchester | Professor Mark R Boyett
The heart beat is produced by regular electrical pulses generated by the heart’s own wiring system. Changes during disease can lead to problems with the heart’s wiring system that causing erratic heart beats (arrhythmias) and in very seriou...
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Creating tools and resources to learn about disease risk from health dataUniversity of Leicester | Dr Michael Sweeting
People with heart and circulatory diseases are living longer thanks to improvements in treatment. This means we need to better understand what other long-term conditions they may develop as they grow older (such as cancer). Health data in...
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BHF becomes a funding charity partner of Our Future Health
We are delighted to become a funding charity partner in Our Future Health, a leading health research programme.
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Our guide for planning the perfect charity ball to raise money for BHF.
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Identifying and predicting which forms of titin are involved in cardiomyopathyUniversity of Liverpool | Dr Olga Mayans
The heart is made up of many different cell types and proteins that work together to produce every heart beat. One important protein is called titin. There are over 8,000 different versions of the titin gene and some of them don’t work prop...
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Atherosclerosis - is RhoG an important regulator of platelet stickiness?University of Bristol | Professor Alastair Poole
Chest pain (angina) and heart attacks are caused by atherosclerosis, a condition that develops over years as fatty deposits called plaques build up in the artery walls. If a fatty plaque ruptures, a clot can form that blocks a vessel leadin...