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Heart surgery leaves a mark that can be hard to get used to. Meet 3 women who wear their scars with pride, and learn about developments in minimising scars.

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.

Largest trial of its kind, involving two BHF Professors, shows patients having heart surgery do not benefit from doctors waiting for them to become severely anaemic before giving a blood transfusion.

People in the most polluted areas could be 27 per cent more likely to develop heart failure

Research we have funded has found that iron deficiency anaemia during very early pregnancy increases the risk that a baby will be born with congenital heart disease. The researchers also found that taking iron supplements during early pregnancy can greatly reduce this risk.

More than 20million UK adults are classified as physically inactive increasing their risk of heart disease and costing the UK health service as much as £1.2billion each year according to our new report.

Findings and patient outcomes from the BHF House of Care programme showing how the approach benefited patient care.

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King's College London | Dr Martin Bishop

Dr Martin Bishop and his team at King’s College London are developing a new, safer method to help doctors identify areas of heart tissue that cause abnormal heart rhythms, or arrhythmias, so they can receive more accurate ablation therapy. ...

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Find out how to donate to British Heart Foundation, from donating money online to giving in memory or leaving a gift in your will.