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This National Heart Month, we're calling for action to raise awareness of heart attacks in women in Wales and tackle the unconscious bias and systemic inequalities which leave them at a disadvantage at every stage of the heart disease journey. Heart attack is not just a male disease. BHF Cymru wants to encourage women to better understand their risk of a heart attack and its symptoms. We're calling on Welsh Government to address health inequalities and prevent women in Wales dying needlessly from heart disease.

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Read about our research into regenerative medicine, and the projects looking at healing hearts by repairing or creating new heart muscle.

We offer exercise sessions for cardiac patients in the surrounding area, as well as social events.

Researchers we've funded have developed a new type of ‘heart plaster’ to revolutionise the way surgeons treat children living with congenital heart disease, so they don’t need as many open-heart operations.

RESEARCH

University of Cambridge | Professor Hugh Markus

Professor Hugh Markus and colleagues at the University of Cambridge are studying cerebral small vessel disease (SVD), a disease of the small blood vessels in the brain. The condition causes a quarter of all strokes and underlies vascular de...

Heart care waiting lists in England rose again, new figures show.

A Manchester United FC shirt with a genuine signature by Harry Maguire was donated to our shop in Manchester. The shirt is now for sale on eBay to help us fund lifesaving research. The framed shirt, complete with a certificate of authenticity from Harry Maguire’s team, is on display in our Manchester Piccadilly Gardens shop.

We’re pleased to share the positive results of our latest Gender and Ethnicity Pay Gap Report for 2023.