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Our expert answers a question on what's worse for your health: fat or sugar. Find out more.

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The Tobacco and Vapes Bill, which aims to protect future generations across the UK from the harmful effects of smoking, will be introduced to Parliament today – not a moment too soon.

Researchers have developed a new blood test to diagnose heart attacks, thanks to BHF-funding. The study found that the new test is more sensitive and quicker in detecting heart damage than the current troponin test.

Cholesterol levels are declining sharply in western nations, but rising in low- and middle-income nations, according to research we part-funded.

Scientists have discovered that a compound found in green tea, currently being studied for its ability to reduce amyloid plaques in the brain in Alzheimer’s disease, also breaks up and dissolves potentially dangerous protein plaques found in the blood vessels.

Find out how our research has led to improvements in cardiac ablation - a procedure used to treat arrhythmia.

Find out what heart palpitations are and whether they affect your ability to exercise.

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University of Glasgow | Professor Gwyn Gould

Heart failure is more common in people with diabetes - but we do not fully understand why. One challenge is that it's hard to reproduce the conditions found in the diabetic heart in the laboratory, so there is a lack of experimental tools t...

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