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Eating healthily on a tight budget: 6 top tips
Senior Dietitian, Victoria Taylor, shares how to eat healthily without breaking the bank.
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Alcohol and heart disease: what are the risks?
Find out why drinking too much alcohol can have a serious impact on your heart.
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Meet our Board of Trustees
The British Heart Foundation is governed by a Board of up to 14 trustees who are responsible for the governance and strategy of the BHF.
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Could potassium be used to prevent abnormal heart rhythms developing after surgery?Queen Mary, University of London | Professor Dr Benjamin O'Brien
Dr Benjamin O’Brien and his team at Queen Mary, University of London are finding out if giving people potassium after heart surgery could prevent an abnormal heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation (AF) from developing. Many doctors believ...
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Stopping the heart from changing shape and size after damageUniversity of Leeds | Dr Neil Turner
Leeds researchers are uncovering how cardiac fibroblast cells, the cells that help form the structural scaffold of the heart, alter the size and shape of the heart during disease. The heart is made up of several different types of cells. ...
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Does mutated aquaporin-1 cause pulmonary hypertension?University of Cambridge | Professor Nicholas Morrell
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) – high blood pressure in the arteries of the lungs – is a rare but incurable condition that leads to heart failure. Several genetic mutations found in people with PAH patients are known to play an impor...
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Why do heart muscles lose their ability to contract in cardiomyopathy?King's College London | Dr Qiuping Zhang
Heart muscle cells have a criss-cross network of protein molecules, called the cytoskeleton, that keep them in the correct shape. For the heart to beat, muscle cells need to change the shape of their cytoskeleton. Dr Zhang has previously sh...
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Can a molecule found in broccoli protect against inflammation in stroke?King's College London | Professor Giovanni Mann
Stroke is one of the most common causes of death and disability in the world. Currently only one drug, called recombinant tissue-plasminogen activator, or rt-PA, is approved to treat it. Professor Giovanni Mann from the King’s College L...
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Using robots to make stem cells a better tool for researchersUniversity of Nottingham | Professor Chris Denning
Professor Chris Denning is investigating how to make stem cells a tool to help solve a variety of problems, from testing drugs safety to repairing damaged organs. In the lab, we can turn stem cells into heart cells, but these cells do no...
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PKCα: a potential new target to prevent artery calcificationUniversity of Manchester | Professor Keith Brennan
Vascular calcification occurs when bone-like deposits build-up in the arteries, causing them to stiffen and narrow. This is a common complication of people with atherosclerosis or kidney disease and can lead to high blood pressure, heart at...