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Coping with depression when you have a heart or circulatory condition
Help and advice if you're feeling depressed after a heart attack or heart surgery, or if you have been told you have a heart or circulatory condition.
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A new high-tech heart scan can improve treatments for people with heart diseasesImperial College London | Professor Dudley Pennell
In healthy hearts, the muscle cells are long and thin, and are tightly packed with their neighbours in an ordered pattern. This means that water molecules can travel more easily along the cells than across them. Professor Pennell and his te...
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Joint funding with the British Israel Research Academic Exchange
The BHF and British Israel Research Academic Exchange (BIRAX) have co-funded research to develop new ways to regenerate damaged heart tissue
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How does high blood pressure cause scarring in people with heart failure?Imperial College London | Professor Cesare M N Terracciano
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is an increasing common form of heart failure, but the mechanisms underlying the condition remain unclear. HFpEF is known to be characterised by a type of scarring called fibrosis – a p...
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Can 3D printing improve the care of children with congenital heart disease?University College London | Professor Andrew Taylor
In the UK, 12 babies a day are diagnosed with a congenital heart defect, a condition or defect that develops in the womb before a baby is born. The defects seen in babies’ hearts are numerous, complex and often unique. It is now possible to...
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Clinical trial of ACE inhibitors and statins in young people with type 1 diabetesUniversity College London | Professor John E Deanfield
Young people diagnosed with type 1 diabetes during childhood are at risk of long term complications including kidney, heart and circulatory disease which may reduce life expectancy by 10-15 years. Although this risk can be reduced by improv...
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How does the heart train itself to deal with low oxygen levels?University of Nottingham | Professor Peter Shaw
Supervised by Professor Peter Shaw, this PhD student is studying how the heart trains itself to cope with periods of low oxygen. Over time, reduced oxygen due to heart disease causes the heart to become damaged. The heart can work with ...
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Number of Northern Ireland heart patients waiting over six months for surgery increases 30-fold
Thirty times more people are waiting over six months for cardiac surgery than a year ago, according to analysis by British Heart Foundation Northern Ireland.
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Understanding factors that make exercise difficult for people with heart failureUniversity of Leeds | Dr Carrie Ferguson
People who have heart failure can sometimes find it difficult to carry out day-to-day activities because they experience breathlessness or leg tiredness. This means they may have difficulty with exercise, and they are sometimes said to have...
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Investigating how the blood vessel lining copes with high blood pressureUniversity of Oxford | Professor Kim A Dora
The inner lining cells of the blood vessel, called endothelial cells, acts as a barrier that controls the movement of fluid (including water) and other molecules from the blood and across the vessel wall. To maintain blood pressure and flow...