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How to encourage people to take their blood pressure tabletsUniversity of Manchester | Professor Maciej Tomaszewski
Professor Maciej Tomaszewski at the University of Manchester wants to find out if a simple, five step intervention can encourage people to take their blood pressure medication properly. High blood pressure, or hypertension, affects near...
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Using man-made proteins to halt the development of fatty plaques in coronary arteriesUniversity of Leeds | Dr Sreenivasan Ponnambalam
Heart attacks are caused by the development of fatty plaques in coronary arteries which can rupture, causing blood clots that block the blood supply to the heart. While a good diet and regular exercise can reduce our risk of coronary heart ...
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Preventing blood vessel narrowing after vein graftingUniversity of Bristol | Professor Sarah Jane George
The build-up of fatty deposits in arteries causes narrowing of blood vessels, restricted blood flow and deprivation of oxygen, leading to heart and circulatory diseases. Conventional treatment for the narrowing of arteries is to implant a s...
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Developing a new drug to prevent heart damage in diabetesUniversity of Cambridge | Dr Thomas Krieg
Dr Thomas Krieg and his team at the University of Cambridge are testing whether a drug that they have developed protects cells from being damaged by high glucose levels in diabetes. People with diabetes often have high blood sugar peaks...
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The impact of kidney donation on the heart and blood vesselsUniversity of Birmingham | Professor Jonathan N Townend
Supervised by Professor Jonathan Townend, the Clinical Research Training Fellow on this project is working out why people with slightly reduced kidney function - a very common finding on blood tests - are more likely to develop heart and ci...
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Does amyloid build-up in the heart make aortic stenosis more difficult to treat?University College London | Professor James Moon
The most common form of heart valve disease is aortic stenosis, where there is narrowing of the aortic valve – the valve that controls blood flow from the heart into the main blood vessel supplying the body. The heart has to pump harder to...
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Investigating a new suspect in hypertensionSt George's, University of London | Professor Anthony Albert
Nearly 30 per cent of adults in the UK have high blood pressure, which raises the risk of heart disease threefold. Despite how common it is, today’s medicines can fail to tightly control blood pressure in many people. This team in London ar...
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Targeting mast cells to prevent deep vein thrombosisUniversity of Birmingham | Dr Alexander Brill
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a blood clot that develops within a deep vein in the body, usually in the leg. Large cells found close to blood vessels called mast cells (MCs) are known to be important in DVT, but it is not known what trigger...