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Having a healthy weight can reduce your risk of developing heart and circulatory diseases like heart attacks, strokes and vascular dementia. Find out how to measure your weight, what weight you should be and how to reduce your health risks.

Inspired by Wimbledon? We explain how you can get started with tennis - it's more accessible than you might think and will help keep your heart healthy too.

Being active can help you prepare for surgery and improve your recovery. Rachael Healy puts common questions to two experts.

Read how a heart rhythm problem hasn't stopped Carl Portman's jungle adventures, and watch a video of Carl with his spiders and talking about his ICD.

Find out what these people have learned from living with a heart condition and what tips they’d give to others

A “shocking” proportion of over-50s with common health problems like high blood pressure are having undetected heart attacks

A new BHF Scotland report highlights the urgent need to raise awareness of heart disease in women. Every year, ischaemic heart disease, including heart attacks and angina, kills around 2,600 women in Scotland – that’s seven women every day. But too many women are not aware that they are at risk.

Where should people who’ve had a cardiac arrest out of hospital be treated? The ARREST trial looked at whether they should be taken to the nearest emergency department or a specialist cardiac arrest centre.

AF is the most common heart rhythm disturbance. We explain the causes and treatments, plus tips for living well with AF.

The cath lab, also known as catheter laboratory or cardiac catheterisation laboratory, is part of a hospital's cardiac department. Read what happens there.