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Our clinical trials

BHF funds clinical trials to help improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease.

What are clinical trials?

Clinical trials are medical research studies involving patient volunteers. They are carried out to: 
  • find better ways to prevent, diagnose or treat disease 
  • provide crucial evidence that diagnostic tests or treatments are safe and effective.   
Whether the results are positive or negative, these studies can help answer key questions for both patients with cardiovascular disease and their clinicians.

Current clinical trials

We are currently supporting 41 clinical trials worth around £36m. We fund trials across a broad range of cardiovascular conditions, and their risk factors, such as diabetes and chronic kidney disease. 

Explore our current clinical trials

Completed clinical trials: recent results

CorCMR

This trial tested whether an extra MRI scan of the heart could help better diagnose people who have angina. Angina is pain or tightness in the chest caused by reduced blood flow to the heart.

Read about the CorCMR trial

ACHIEVE

BHF funding enabled the UK to be part of an international clinical trial, which aimed to find out if spironolactone can reduce heart-related complications in people receiving dialysis for kidney failure.

Read about the ACHIEVE trial

BHF-PROTECT-TAVI

Aortic stenosis can be treated with a procedure to replace the damaged heart valve, called transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). BHF-PROTECT-TAVI was designed to definitively test whether using a device during TAVI can help reduce the small risk of stroke from the procedure.

Read about the BHF-PROTECT-TAVI trial

Other completed trials

Browse our trials by condition

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Our research

Find out more about our dedicated researchers, our research successes and other projects we're currently working on. 

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Donating to our lifesaving research

Our groundbreaking research projects are only possible with your support. Donate today and be part of the next lifesaving breakthrough. 

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To find out more, or to support British Heart Foundation’s work, please visit www.bhf.org.uk. You can speak to one of our cardiac nurses by calling our helpline on 0808 802 1234 (freephone), Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. For general customer service enquiries, please call 0300 330 3322, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

British Heart Foundation is a registered Charity No. 225971. Registered as a Company limited by guarantee in England & Wales No. 699547. Registered office at Greater London House, 180 Hampstead Road, London NW1 7AW. Registered as a Charity in Scotland No. SC039426