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Studying deep vein thrombosis in bioengineered human veins

Imperial College London | Professor James Crawley

Researchers at Imperial College London are creating replica human veins to better understand deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Deep vein thrombosis affects in 1 in every 1,000 people each year in the UK. DVT occurs when a blood clot develops in ...

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How does heart metabolism become disrupted to cause diabetic cardiomyopathy

University of Manchester | Dr Wei Liu

Investigating how diabetes causes a dangerous condition called diabetic cardiomyopathy. Diabetes is a major global health problem, estimated to affect more than 400 million people. The condition can double a person’s risk of developing h...

Your guide to 11 different types of blood tests

Read our list of the most common blood tests you may have and what they reveal about the body.

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Funding a vital scanner that will help researchers discover new heart disease treatments

University of Bristol | Professor Paolo Madeddu

Bristol researchers will use the Vevo 3100 to continue their ground-breaking work. The Translational Biomedical Research Centre (TBRC) at Bristol is a state-of-the-art facility. It helps researchers to take their studies from preclinical...

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Predicting heart rhythm disturbance and heart failure in adult congenital heart disease

Imperial College London | Dr Sonya Babu Narayan

Thanks to advances in treatment, most babies born with congenital heart disease survive to adulthood but many are at risk of sudden death from unexpected heart rhythm disturbances (arrhythmia). Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan has been awarded an Int...

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A three dimensional sat-nav for the heart

Imperial College London | Professor Peter Kohl

The heart is amazingly complex, yet astonishingly robust in its response to changing conditions, from exercise to aging, disease and even transplantation to another body. This ability to adapt over milliseconds to years is based on cell lev...

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Identifying critical mechanisms in the initiation of atherosclerosis

Imperial College London | Professor Peter Weinberg

Atherosclerosis develops when fatty deposits build up in the walls of arteries narrowing them and thus reducing the amount of blood reaching organs. If a fatty plaque ruptures it can block the artery and cause a heart attack or stroke. We k...

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Using big data to improve heart health

Medical Research Council | Ms Unknown Medical Research Council

The British Heart Foundation has joined a consortium of UK government and charity funders, led by the Medical Research Council (MRC), to contribute to a £19 million investment to establish four electronic-health research Centres of Excellen...

13 small changes that add up to a healthy diet

A few small steps can make a healthy diet and help you to control your weight, too. Dietitian Annemarie Aburrow shows us how.