British Heart Foundation
Heart damage from cancer drugs traced to specific cause
Potential drug targets for heart failure therapies and cancer-related heart damage.
Smartphone ECG could be used in A&E to detect serious heart conditions
Palpitations make you feel like your heart is beating too hard or too fast, skipping a beat, or fluttering. They can be bothersome or...
Statins reduce heart attack and stroke risk in older people
Statins work by lowering cholesterol. They are one of the most widely prescribed drugs in the UK, based on a wealth of evidence that...
UK consumes 13,000 tonnes of chocolate each week
Chocolate is a passion! You don’t just nibble or eat chocolate; you savor, experience, live, and, at times, reluctantly share it. A new survey by...
People are ready to leave the UK if there was a chocolate ban
Chocolate is on the tip of everyone's tongue – not only as a gently melting treat. Every time we taste chocolate, it is a wonderful...
Study in Birmingham could lead to better detection of people with irregular heart rhythm
Atrial fibrillation (also called AFib or AF) is a quivering or irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure, and...
Study offers possible explanation for broken heart syndrome
BHF scientists have recently made a key revelation the body’s own immune system plays a vital role in the mysterious heart condition i.e., broken heart...
Fish genes hold key to repairing damaged hearts
A surprising discovery by the British Heart Foundation suggests that Mexican tetra fish can repair its heart after damage. In particular, a gene called lrrc10 may...
High blood pressure, smoking and diabetes increase heart attack risk more in women
Men usually have a more serious danger of heart assault than ladies, yet a few investigations have proposed that specific hazard factors have a greater...
How ambulance crews can improve heart attack diagnosis?
Scientists at the Kingston University and St George's, University of London, in collaboration with Swansea University and the University of Leeds have carried out a...
New tool to spot deadly sepsis in people who have heart failure
Sepsis is a potentially life-threatening complication of an infection. It occurs when chemicals released into the bloodstream to fight the infection trigger inflammatory responses...
Does loneliness increase your risk of heart attack or stroke?
The study was conducted on 181,000 people aged 3 to 21 years. Longitudinal studies can be good at establishing relationships, as the same people...
Scientists reveal the way blood clots reduce the chance of infection
Researchers have discovered that a protein film forms quickly over an injury as a major aspect of the natural clotting procedure, and it gives...
Fears are wreaking havoc on millennials lives
According to a new study, millennials are more fearful of having no Wi-Fi (24%) than they are of snakes (16%). The study suggests that 21st-century fears that...
Heart attacks are more deadly during colder months
Analyzing data from almost 4,056 people who received treatment for a heart attack in four separate years, scientists found that the patients who had a...
New blood test to diagnose heart attacks
Patients with heart attacks have cardiac myosin-binding protein C protein in high concentrations (cMyC) of the time for an on-the-spot diagnosis. Now, scientists at the King’s College London...
Mothers with four children have increased risk of heart disease
Gathering data from over 8,000 White and African-American women from the United States, aged 45-64 years, scientists found that mother who has 5 or more children, is...
Green tea molecule could prevent heart attacks
Scientists from Lancaster University and the University of Leeds have discovered that a compound found in green tea could prevent deaths from heart attacks and...