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Queen's University Belfast | Dr Andriana Margariti

It is estimated that by 2045 there will be 629 million people with diabetes across the globe. Diabetes is a major cause of damage to our blood vessels, which can lead to heart attacks, stroke, kidney failure and blindness. The reason diabet...

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University of Leeds | Dr Marc Bailey

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a ballooning of the main blood vessel in the body, the aorta. AAAs tend to grow over time and eventually may rupture, which can be fatal. At the moment, the only treatment is surgery if the aneurysm is lar...

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University of Oxford | Professor Hugh Watkins

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, is a heart muscle disease that can run in families. It can lead to shortness of breath, chest pain, palpitations, and light headedness and increases the risk of both young and older people dying suddenly...

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University of Cambridge | Dr Sanjay Sinha

Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in the blood vessel wall contribute to the ‘furring up’ of vessels in coronary heart disease and stroke. SMCs are also involved in an inherited condition known as Marfan syndrome, where a defect in fibrillin-1, a ...

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University of Sheffield | Professor Tim Chico

Damage to blood vessels can cause serious conditions like coronary heart disease and stroke. Understanding how new blood vessels form, in a process called angiogenesis, and how their growth can be controlled could help scientists devise way...

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University of Strathclyde | Professor John G McCarron

All blood vessels are lined with endothelium – a layer of cells that control many processes in the circulatory system. Professor McCarron’s work suggests that different endothelial cells have distinct jobs to do and communicate with each ot...

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University of Oxford | Professor Kazem Rahimi

Oxford researchers are using Big Data to understand the links between high blood pressure and diabetes. Millions of people in the UK are living with diabetes and/or high blood pressure, also called hypertension. These conditions raise peop...

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University of Glasgow | Dr Pasquale Maffia

A team led by Dr Pasquale Maffia at the University of Glasgow is interested in the role of immune cells in the circulatory system in the onset of heart and circulatory disease. Much heart disease occurs because of the build-up of fatty, or ...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Morris Brown

One cause of high blood pressure is a benign tumour in the adrenal gland which secretes aldosterone, the hormone regulating salt and water balance. The over- secreting tumour is called an aldosterone-producing adrenal adenoma (APA). To unde...