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Trialling physical exercise and psychological support in the treatment of ’broken heart syndrome’University of Aberdeen | Professor Dana Dawson
Stress-induced cardiomyopathy – also known as ‘broken heart syndrome’ and ‘takotsubo syndrome’ –is a rare condition where major emotional stress causes symptoms like a heart attack, without blockage of the coronary heart arteries. People w...
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Uncovering the role of Runx1 in causing heart failure post-heart attackUniversity of Glasgow | Professor Christopher Loughrey
Research-led advances over the last decade mean that, today, in the UK at least seven out of 10 people survive a heart attack. However, the damage to the heart muscle caused by a heart attack can leave people at greater risk of heart failur...
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Investigating why blood clots are more common in pregnant women who are overweight.University of Glasgow | Dr Catherine Bagot
Blood clots in veins, while rare, are one of the main causes of death in pregnant women. Overweight pregnant women are at a greater risk of blood clots than pregnant women of a healthy weight, but the reasons why are not understood. Hig...
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Understanding how NPP1 works to prevent artery calcificationUniversity of Edinburgh | Dr Vicky MacRae
Heart and circulatory diseases are common complications of people with kidney disease. This is mainly due to a build-up of bone-like deposits in their arteries – causing them to stiffen and narrow. This is called calcification and can lead...
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Can a troponin test help diagnose people with coronary heart disease?University of Edinburgh | Professor Nicholas Mills
This team of cardiologists think a highly sensitive blood test could help to detect people who are at risk of a future heart attack. Most people attending the emergency department with chest pain will have a blood test to measure troponin,...
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Targeting RNAs to prevent heart attacksUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor Andrew Howard Baker
When protein molecules are produced from genes contained within DNA, there is an intermediate molecule called RNA that, until recently, was thought to simply be there to produce the protein. Now, scientists know that there are hundreds of t...
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Can we protect against high levels of stress hormones that cause heart disease?University of Edinburgh | Dr Mark Nixon
High levels of stress hormones, called glucocorticoids, are known to cause obesity, diabetes and heart and circulatory diseases. The hormones circulate in the blood bound to another molecule called corticosteroid binding globulin (CBG), whi...
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Should anticlotting drugs for AF be given to people who’ve had a brain haemorrhage?University of Edinburgh | Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman
Atrial fibrillation is the most common form of irregular heart rhythm. It is more common in the elderly and is associated with a much higher risk of stroke – when a clot blocks blood supply to part of the brain. For that reason, most people...
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Blocking inflammation in arteries to prevent heart diseaseUniversity of Strathclyde | Professor Robin Plevin
CXCL12 is a molecule that causes inflammation and has been linked to the development of heart and circulatory diseases. Researchers are now interested in whether they can stop it working in blood vessel cells and whether this might help pre...
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A new scanning method to monitor whether an aneurysm is likely to ruptureUniversity of Edinburgh | Professor David Newby
Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) are caused by a swelling in the main blood vessel in the body, the aorta. If left to grow, the swelling can become life-threatening but there is currently no way to predict whether someone’s aneurysm will ca...