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Research suggests there’s a diet that may help to prevent dementia. Our Senior Dietitian Victoria Taylor explains.

Researchers at the University of Oxford, part funded by the British Heart Foundation, have identified a new way to regenerate the heart after a heart attack bringing the UK’s half a million heart failure sufferers hope for a cure.

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Imperial College London | Professor Anna Randi

Professor Anna Randi and her colleagues at Imperial College London are studying how a protein called von Willebrand factor (VWF) is important for heart health. Very small blood vessels, called capillaries, form over two thirds of the heart...

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University of Leeds | Professor Christopher Gale

Dr Chris Gale and colleagues from the University of Leeds will spend two years creating the world’s largest research database of information about heart attacks. They will do this by linking together, for the first time, existing databases ...

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University of Leeds | Professor John A Trinick

Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a devastating inherited form of heart disease. In the young, it can lead to sudden death. Professor John Trinick from the University of Leeds has been awarded a 3-year research grant of £180,000 to st...

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University of Birmingham | Dr Neil Morgan

Supervised by Dr Neil Morgan, the PhD student on this project is hunting for new genes that cause bleeding disorders to work out how they cause disease. Bleeding disorders describe a group of conditions where blood does not clot properly...

Testing older potential organ donors for levels of dangerous 'zombie' cells in their blood could help to increase the number of hearts available for transplant, according to research we've funded presented at the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) conference in Manchester.

How do you get more patients to take up cardiac rehabilitation? We share the successes of BHF-funded pilot using a simple poster.

BHF Senior Dietitian, Dell Stanford, explains how our diet can affect our mental wellbeing

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University of Oxford | Professor Shoumo Bhattacharya

Occasionally, a virus or bacterial infection can lead to severe and potentially fatal inflammation of the heart muscle known as autoimmune myocarditis. There is currently no specific treatment for this condition. However, Professor Shoumo B...