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Discover why autoimmune conditions like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis increase heart attack and stroke risk. Learn how you can protect your heart.

Find out how experiences like heart attacks and cardiac arrests can cause PTSD and how PTSD symptoms are treated, with helpful tips from a specialist psychologist.

The team behind the CvLPRIT trial wanted to find out if all narrowed vessels should be reopened during angioplasty to treat a heart attack.

We're calling for the Government to adopt measures which will help prevent disease in the upcoming budget.

2021 edition of our statistics compendium (formerly Coronary Heart Disease Statistics).

RESEARCH

University of Leeds | Dr Marc Bailey

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a condition in which the main artery in the body balloons and eventually ruptures. There may be no warning that an aorta is about to rupture. A ruptured AAA is often fatal and the only treatment for a ball...

If someone in your family has a heart attack, are you at risk too? Our nurses explain.

A new BHF Scotland report highlights the urgent need to raise awareness of heart disease in women. Every year, ischaemic heart disease, including heart attacks and angina, kills around 2,600 women in Scotland – that’s seven women every day. But too many women are not aware that they are at risk.

A drug already used to treat high blood pressure could be re-purposed as the first treatment to tackle a type of vascular dementia caused by damaged and ‘leaky’ small blood vessels in the brain, according to research we've part-funded and published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

We know that being under stress, whether work-related, financial, or emotional can lead to ill health. But what does it mean to be stressed? And what does it mean for our health? In part one of this BHF series about stress and the heart we look at psychological stress - the ancient defence still trying to protect us to this day.