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Ethnicity and heart disease

Picnic table

Your ethnicity can affect your risk of heart disease. Find out how you can reduce that risk.

Find out more

How we help

Heart helpline

Heart Matters
Heartstart UK
Heart Support Groups
Health at Work
Hearty Lives

Get Involved

Events, fundraising & campaigning

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  • In your area
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  • If you live in a Heart Town

Cycle Clock2Rock

London Paris BikeRide group cycling

Join us on our inaugural Clock2Rock bike ride and cycle from London to Gibraltar for the adventure of a lifetime.

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Our events

BHF Events

Walk, ride, run or swim to help raise vital funds for us. And find out about our new cycling events...

Find an event
New bike rides coming soon
Organise your own event

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High street & online shopping

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A taste of Britain

Everyday British cookbook

Our Everyday British recipe book gives a healthy twist to those traditional British meals

Buy our cookbook

Book a collection

Book a collection

We'll collect your unwanted furniture and electrical goods to sell in our stores.

Book a collection
What to donate
Research

The heart research you fund

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  • Research milestones
  • Mending Broken Hearts
  • Meet our researchers
  • Centres of research excellence
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£2 million to keep hearts beating

Professor Kinya Otsu

Your donations have raised over £2 million for new Professor Kinya Otsu's research into stopping heart cells dying.

Life-saving heart research

Our research successes

Research

We invest in world-class research into heart disease. Find out how far we've come in 50 years, and how far we still have to go.

Read about our impact

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Community

Connect & share experiences

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In your area

Heart Town launch in Bromley

We're working with UK towns and cities to get communities heart healthy.

Find out about Heart Towns

Our online community

Our Online Community

Share experiences, stories, tips and ideas in our community.

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About BHF

Who we are & our mission

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Where we're at

50 years of heart health

Explore 50 years of the fight against heart disease, and find out where we're going in the future.

Explore our timeline

Where we are

Where we are

From shops to events, Heart Nurses to Professors, find something near you on our map.

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  • WHAT ON EARTH CAN I DO, IM SO FED UP WITH ALL THIS. 1,253 reads
  • Help us shape an NHS that works for heart patients 801 reads
  • A free recipe from the new BHF Everyday British recipe book - healthy and delicious! 488 reads
  • hole in the heart 436 reads
  • Friends are treating me different and I want to scream 300 reads
  • WHAT ON EARTH CAN I DO, IM SO FED UP WITH ALL THIS. 18 comments
  • hole in the heart 13 comments
  • New here 4 comments
  • Help for a concerned bystander.... 4 comments
  • New to bhf- due aortic valve replacement 4 comments

Recent Posts

Let's talk about sex
Friends are treating me different and I want to scream
Help us shape an NHS that works for heart patients
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You can now 'heart' posts you like on our community
Salt Awareness Week
New - 38 and in shock!

Most loved posts

  • You can now 'heart' posts you like on our community (5)
  • Starting a new relationship when you have a heart condition (4)
  • Hi, I thought I would just introduce myself (4)
  • Good addition Roberto - nice (4)
  • Oooooh, I do have something (3)

Living with a heart condition

Share your stories and find out about how others are dealing with the day to day of living with a heart condition.
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Travel Insurance 1137
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by Gordon Mellin 18/10/2011 - 11:18am by Rachel 17 hours 10 min ago
Unstable Angina after having an MI 130
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by sharon lawson 12/04/2012 - 2:46pm by jim walls 14/05/2012 - 10:21am
travel abroad 167
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by 3602 20/04/2012 - 2:24pm by Neil 13/05/2012 - 9:53am
Let's talk about sex 194
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by Roberto Community Manager 11/05/2012 - 12:42pm by Neil 11/05/2012 - 11:10pm
Loop Recorders and permission to drive by DVLA ? 47
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by Simon Cuming 07/05/2012 - 10:11am n/a
VSD & LEAKY HEART VALVE
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by tammy mason 13/02/2012 - 3:53pm by Elly-may 29/04/2012 - 2:46pm
Life after a Heart Attack (stemi) 568
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by Steve OSullivan 14/03/2012 - 6:41pm by agnes 25/04/2012 - 9:15am
23 yrs old and have heart trouble 321
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by matthew pike 19/02/2012 - 10:46pm by Angel Eyes 24/04/2012 - 9:08pm
Post MI: Ideas for Dealing with Fear & Anxiety
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by timsk 19/03/2012 - 12:12pm by Helen Anderson 24/04/2012 - 12:57am
Starting a new relationship when you have a heart condition 3380
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by Katherine BHF 03/04/2012 - 12:15pm by Annette McEwan 19/04/2012 - 9:03am
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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