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Charlotte's story: "I've learned to live with anxiety-related chest pain"
Find out how Charlotte Curzon manages her anxiety-related chest pain.
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How to deal with anxiety when you have a heart problem
NHS clinical psychologist, Dr Katie Murray, explains what anxiety is and how to get help if it's affecting you. Plus expert tips to feel calmer, like grounding, deep breathing and muscle relaxation.
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Could night-time dialysis protect the heart in people with kidney failure?University of Leicester | Dr Matthew Graham-Brown
This Leicester team is testing whether slowing down kidney dialysis reduces damage to patients’ hearts. Heart disease is the leading cause of death for people with kidney failure on dialysis. To stay alive, patients on dialysis have thei...
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BHF partner with ITN Business to produce news-style programme for World Heart Day
British Heart Foundation has partnered with ITN Business to launch ‘In a Heartbeat’, a news-style programme hosted by broadcaster and journalist Louise Minchin, this World Heart Day, 29th September 2024.
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Using high tech imaging to understand the lifelong cardiac effects of being born with a heart defectImperial College London | Dr Sonya Babu Narayan
Every day in the UK, 12 babies are diagnosed with heart defects, known collectively as congenital heart disease. Thanks to research across recent decades, around eight in 10 people born with a heart defect now survive to adulthood. However,...
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Can a type of gene therapy technology help people with heart muscle disease?University of Oxford | Professor Matthew Wood
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an inherited disease – where loss of a protein called dystrophin leads to progressive muscle wasting, including degeneration of heart muscle. People with this disease die earlier. New treatments are need...
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Reducing the risk to the heart and blood vessels for people with diabetes
Diabetes can damage arteries and veins, putting people at risk of developing heart and circulatory diseases. We’ve been funding research to find out how best to protect the heart and blood vessels in people with diabetes.
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Government to relax shielding guidance from July 6
People with serious heart and circulatory diseases who have been shielding from Covid-19 in England have been advised that they can spend more time outside their homes from Monday, July 6.
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Understanding the early stages of how our veins and arteries stiffen with ageUniversity of East Anglia | Dr Derek Warren
As we age, our veins and arteries become less flexible, and this contributes to the development of heart and circulatory disease. The biological processes that initiate the stiffening of our blood vessels are still not well understood. By u...
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We offer personal support for clinical and non-clinical cardiovascular researchers at all stages of their career. We offer project grants, programme grants, infrastructure grants and strategic initiatives, among other funding schemes.