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500,000 missed out on blood pressure lowering drugs during pandemic
Nearly half a million people missed out on starting medication to lower their blood pressure during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to research supported by the British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre at Health Data Research UK and published in Nature Medicine
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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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Working with top Israeli researchers to harness the heart’s ability to repair itselfUniversity of Oxford | Professor Paul Riley
A heart attack can cause irreparable damage making the heart less able to pump blood around the body. This is called heart failure and it affects hundreds of thousands of people in the UK. In 2011 BHF Professor Paul Riley and his colleag...
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Studying real-life experience of taking new anti-clotting drugs with other medicinesLondon School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | Dr Angel Yun Sum Wong
Direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) are a new group of drugs used to prevent blood clots. They are used as an alternative to warfarin. Usually, people taking DOACs are also taking several other medications, which increases the chance of drug...
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Spotting and preventing sudden death risk in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Our research has helped to develop a risk prediction tool to spot the risk of sudden cardiac death in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, so it can be prevented.
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Children with heart disease being let down by lack of clinical trials
Less than one per cent of UK children born with congenital heart disease are enrolled in clinical trials looking to improve treatments, according to research we've funded.
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Warning over ambulance waiting times for heart attacks and strokes
We have responded to latest NHS England figures revealing dangerously long ambulance waiting times for heart attacks and strokes, and an ever-growing backlog of cardiac care.
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Can MRI scanning during exercise predict heart failure in people with pulmonary arterial hypertension?Imperial College London | Dr Declan O'Regan
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is caused by abnormally high blood pressure in the arteries carrying blood to the lungs, which results in damage to the right side of the heart. Symptoms include breathlessness or tiredness, and can lea...
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Predicting the success of stents and surgery in people with heart failureKing's College London | Professor Divaka Perera
Heart failure caused by narrowing of arteries in the heart is a common form of heart failure in the UK. This either leads to irreversible scarring of the heart muscle or causes the heart muscle to enter a state called myocardial hibernation...
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On the NHS frontline: Victoria's story
Victoria Meynell, a cardiac nurse who works in the British Heart Foundation’s Health Service Engagement Team, reflects on her week on the NHS frontline where she cared for patients affected by coronavirus.