How your ethnic background affects your risk of cardiovascular disease
We’ve been funding research to better understand how your ethnic background affects your risk of heart and circulatory diseases and diabetes.
Risk factor research achievements
Thanks to BHF research, we now know much more about identifying and treating some of the important factors that can lead to heart and circulatory diseases.
Tackling health inequalities and identifying risk factors
Fighting for better heart attack treatments for women
Women don’t get the same care for heart attacks as men, and it’s costing lives. We’ve been funding research to understand and address the reasons why.
How social inequalities lead to heart disease
Social and economic factors can affect your risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. We’re funding research to better understand why.
Inherited high cholesterol: earlier diagnosis and better treatment
Inherited high cholesterol can lead to heart attack or stroke. Our research found the faulty genes behind the condition and made a test to spot them.
Spotting people at risk of heart and circulatory diseases
BHF-funded research is trying to find the signals in the blood that could help identify people at risk of cardiovascular diseases and find treatments.
Understanding how heart disease risk begins before you’re born
Did you know that your parents’ health and lifestyle can influence your risk of heart disease? We’ve been funding research to better understand this.
Transforming treatments
Proving that statins save lives
Our research helped prove that lowering blood cholesterol using statins prevent the risk of heart attack and stroke.
Statins: side effects or not?
Our research has helped us better understand the side effects people can have while taking statins, and that they may not be as common as you think.
Stopping the damage that diabetes causes to arteries and veins
We’ve been funding research to find ways to grow or repair damaged blood vessels damaged by diabetes.
The links between mental health and heart health
Your mental health can affect your heart health, and vice versa. Our research is helping to understand why and testing new treatments.
Reducing the risk to the heart and blood vessels for people with diabetes
Diabetes can damage blood vessels, raising the risk of cardiovascular disease. We're funding research to help protect people with diabetes.
A new technique to decide the best treatment option for coronary heart disease
Our research helped to develop a new diagnostic tool to assess the severity of coronary heart disease.
Creating healthier environments
Why being active is good for your heart
We’ve been funding research that shows the benefits of being physically active at all ages, and for people with heart and circulatory diseases too.
Reducing smoking to save lives
For decades, we've led the charge against smoking – from demonstrating that passive smoking in public places kills to influencing government policy.
Making healthy choices easier
We’ve been funding research into how policy can help make healthy choices easier and improve our health.
Protecting our health from air pollution
BHF-funded research has shown how air pollution can damage your heart and blood vessels. We’ve used these findings to campaign for change.