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The team behind the High STEACS trial wanted to find out whether a test that can detect tiny amounts of a protein called troponin in the blood could help improve heart attack diagnosis and treatment.

Reducing the nation’s blood pressure and cholesterol levels helped prevent over 20,000 people from dying prematurely from coronary heart disease according to a new study.

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University of Bristol | Dr Mark Bond

Atherosclerosis is the process in arteries that causes them to become narrowed or blocked, and can cause a stroke or heart attack. During atherosclerosis, the growth and movement of cells in the walls of blood vessels becomes uncontrolled, ...

The weight loss medication semaglutide – better known as Wegovy – can benefit people living with heart failure and obesity, according to research presented today at the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Amsterdam and published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Part two in our series looking at stress and the heart.

Chief Executive at UK Biobank and BHF Professor, Sir Rory Collins, is enhancing a health data resource to understand why some individuals are hit hard by coronavirus (Covid-19) while others escape with little or no effect.

Heart and circulatory disease will affect us all in some way - but many people don't know the facts. We debunk 7 of the persistent heart and circulatory disease myths.

The blood vessels of middle-aged men and women adapt differently to regular exercise according to new research being presented today at the British Cardiovascular Society conference in Manchester.

Despite 35,000 women in the UK being admitted to hospital each year with a heart attack, women are more likely than men to be misdiagnosed. Heart Matters finds out more