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University of Edinburgh | Professor Joanna Wardlaw

Professor Joanna Wardlaw is leading a clinical trial to help find new treatments for people who have a lacunar, or small vessel, stroke. In 2014 around 35,000 people in the UK had a lacunar stroke, which is caused by damage to one of the...

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Imperial College London | Dr Chris Dunsby

The regular pumping of our heart requires the cardiac muscle cells to contract in a specific co-ordinated pattern. Contraction is stimulated by a rapid but carefully regulated increase of calcium ions in each cell. However, sometimes waves ...

From the stages of vascular dementia to prognosis and life expectancy, we answer common questions about vascular dementia.

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University of Bristol | Professor Raimondo Ascione

Open-heart surgery typically requires stopping the heart for one to two hours while blood is instead pumped around the body using a heart-lung machine. Despite many advances, stopping the heart can still lead to heart damage which can cause...

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University of Cambridge | Professor Hugh Markus

Professor Hugh Markus and colleagues at the University of Cambridge are studying cerebral small vessel disease (SVD), a disease of the small blood vessels in the brain. The condition causes a quarter of all strokes and underlies vascular de...

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University of St Andrews | Dr Alan Stewart

Dr Alan Stewart is studying the processes involved in blood clotting and identifying what happens when this process goes awry. People with diabetes or cancer, or those who are obese, have higher blood fat levels, and are at greater risk ...

Our innovative project means that many patients can be treated for excessive fluid retention, a common symptom of heart failure, in their own homes.