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University of Edinburgh | Professor Nicholas Mills

Supervised by Professor Nicholas Mills the Clinical Research Training Fellow on this project wants to find out the causes and prognosis of heart muscle damage that is not caused by a typical heart attack. A heart attack is the result of a ...

For some people living with a heart condition, antidepressants can help. An expert explains how they work, side effects and how to tell if you're depressed.

RESEARCH

University of Cambridge | Professor Ian Wilkinson

The large arteries are elastic and they have an important role in buffering the swings of blood pressure that occur with each heartbeat. With age and in certain diseases, these arteries stiffen, leading to high blood pressure (hypertension)...

BHF Senior Cardiac Nurse, Regina Giblin, explains how lack of oxygen to the heart and medicine side effects can cause long-term tiredness in people with heart and circulatory conditions.

New research in Leicester, which we funded, could help understand how heart failure can develop in people living with Type 2 diabetes.

Researchers we've funded have developed a new type of ‘heart plaster’ to revolutionise the way surgeons treat children living with congenital heart disease, so they don’t need as many open-heart operations.

Vanessa Smith shares her experience so far on the NHS frontline, where she has cared for patients affected by both coronavirus (Covid-19) and heart and circulatory conditions.

Find out how Prakash copes with more than one health condition and still gets enjoyment from life. Read his story now. 

Newly published research suggests that people who go to sleep between 10pm and 10:59pm have the lowest risk of developing heart and circulatory disease, compared to people with earlier and later bedtimes.

Millions of people across the UK are living with undiagnosed conditions that significantly increase their risk of heart or circulatory diseases, including high blood pressure (hypertension), high cholesterol and atrial fibrillation (AF).