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University College London | Dr Juan Pablo Kaski

This clinical PhD project supervised by Dr Juan Pablo Kaski, based at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, aims to improve how doctors identify children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) who are at high risk of sudden cardiac death ...

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University of Edinburgh | Professor Nicholas Mills

This team of cardiologists think a highly sensitive blood test could help to detect people who are at risk of a future heart attack. Most people attending the emergency department with chest pain will have a blood test to measure troponin,...

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King's College London | Professor Bijan Modarai

In humans, ischaemia – lack of oxygen in the circulation – can cause peripheral arterial disease – which is common in elderly people, and can be very painful – and even cause gangrene and require limb amputation. Dr Bijan Modarai’s team fro...

Read our top tips for travelling abroad with a heart condition. From planning a trip, to packing and staying safe once you've arrived.

Olympic silver medallist, Roger Black, shares his journey from being diagnosed with heart disease to earning one of world’s greatest sporting accolades

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University College London | Dr Thomas Treibel

The aortic valve controls blood flow from the heart into the body’s main artery: the aorta. Aortic stenosis is the narrowing of this valve. In severe cases, surgery is needed to replace it. Around half of people with severe aortic stenosis ...

We have helped train 500 Virgin Media staff in CPR and equip their vans with mobile defibrillators.

There have been almost 800 excess deaths in those dying below the age of 65 from heart and circulatory diseases since the Covid-19 pandemic began, a new analysis by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) has revealed.

Accommodation and food service workers are more likely to smoke than workers in any other UK industry, according to new statistics released by the British Heart Foundation ahead of No Smoking Day on 11th March.

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University of Dundee | Professor Jacob George

A team from the University of Dundee will conduct a clinical trial in patients with high blood pressure, looking particularly at thickening of the heart muscle (left ventricular hypertrophy). Although high blood pressure can be controlled w...