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University of Southampton | Professor Mark Hanson

Heart and circulatory disease causes a significant number of deaths, every year in the UK. New ways to encourage people to follow a healthy lifestyle in the long term could have huge benefits for health, and that of future generations. ...

Nearly 284,000 people were waiting for time critical heart operations and other heart procedures at the end of November 2021, latest NHS England figures reveal – 22 per cent higher than at the beginning of the pandemic.

Ann Simpson shares what it’s like to have TAVI – a life-enhancing procedure to treat heart valve disease.

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University College London | Dr Vishwanie Budhram-Mahadeo

The heart’s specialised muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, help pump blood around the body. Stress or damage can force the heart to work harder, which causes the cells to adapt to the workload by growing larger, a process called hypertrop...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Dino Giussani

We know that conditions in the womb can trigger alterations in the development of the foetus’s heart and blood vessels. This may set the stage for heart and circulatory problems in the newborn baby, as well as increasing the risk of heart a...

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Researchers wanted to find out whether a temporary restriction of blood flow to the arm might protect the heart from injury following bypass surgery.

BHF Professor Sir Rory Collins at the University of Oxford has been awarded the Medical Research Council’s (MRC) most prestigious personal award, the Millennium Medal 2020.

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University of Nottingham | Professor Philip Bath

High blood pressure is common in people who have a stroke because of a blood clot or a bleed – called ischaemic or haemorrhagic stroke – and people are more likely to die or become disabled because of it. So far trials to lower blood pressu...