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How volunteering helped build Daniel’s confidence and shape a brighter future.

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University of Cambridge | Professor Richard Farndale

Collagen is a structural protein of the blood vessel wall, which is normally concealed beneath the cells that line the blood vessel inner walls. When the blood vessel becomes injured, collagen is exposed and attracts cells called platelets ...

Is diabetes caused by eating too much sugar, and should people with diabetes follow a special diet? Our nutritional expert busts popular diabetes myths.

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BHF Senior Dietitian Tracy Parker explains which foods are sources of vitamin D in your diet, including oily fish, mushrooms and eggs.

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King's College London | Professor Simon Redwood

Supervised by Professor Simon Redwood, this Clinical Research Training Fellow is studying angina, chest pain that occurs when the blood supply to the heart muscle is restricted. Coronary heart disease – when the arteries supplying the h...

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Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh | Professor Stephen Yarwood

Dr Stephen Yarwood is studying ways to combat chronic inflammation, a key part of heart and circulatory disease. In conditions like atherosclerosis, when blood vessels narrow with fatty plaques, chronic inflammation causes excessive leakine...

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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 Manchester | Dr Adam Greenstein

High blood pressure (hypertension) and obesity are important causes of cardiovascular death. Furthermore, there is a relationship between these factors: as body weight increases, blood pressure rises. Until recently there has been no explan...