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Esteemed barrister Mary Poku talks about her heart transplant surgery, performed 36 years ago by BHF-funded and world-renowned surgeon Prof Sir Magdi Yacoub.

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

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University of Oxford | Dr Oliver Rider

Although obesity increases the chance of developing heart failure, when patients have heart failure they may live longer if they are obese. This unexpected finding is termed the 'obesity paradox' and the reasons behind it are currently unkn...

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Exercise helps everyone live a happier and healthier life. If you have heart and circulatory disease it can help manage your condition and get you feeling great.

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University of Bristol | Professor Gianni D Angelini

Heart surgery causes inflammation throughout the whole body, and inflammation is often the reason people stay in intensive care for a long time or even die after surgery. One of the ways the body defends itself against uncontrolled inflamma...

Professor Ian Wilkinson reveals how scientific discoveries could change how we think about the causes of high blood pressure, its diagnosis and treatment.

Diabetes causes subtle structural changes to the heart, according to new research.

Latest NHS England waiting time figures show 230,278 people were waiting for invasive heart procedures and heart operations at the end of April – the highest number since the pandemic began.

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University of Leeds | Dr Richard Cubbon

Type 2 diabetes affects more than 1 million people in the UK, most of who are unable to control their blood sugar because they don’t respond to the hormone insulin. This is called ‘insulin resistance’, and can damage blood vessels, leading ...