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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.

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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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Join in with National Heart Month

Be part of Red for Heart 2012

Get involved and have fun with our Red for Heart campaign throughout February.

Find out more

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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Gifts from the heart

Earrings

With 50% off all jewellery you can help us save lives and grab a bargain!

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Book a collection

Book a collection

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

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What to donate
Research

The heart research we fund

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Hope for mending broken hearts

Test

Find out how your donations are helping fund a £260,000 research project looking for clues into mending broken hearts.

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.

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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.

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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’s your favourite way to enjoy the countryside? 331 reads
  • 41 years young 280 reads
  • Want to have your say on heart services? 267 reads
  • Im new!!! 210 reads
  • Hot Sauce 203 reads
  • Singers!? 12 comments
  • newbie 9 comments
  • 41 years young 7 comments
  • Im new!!! 6 comments
  • hello 5 comments

Recent Posts

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Christmas is on the way!

Discussions

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Welcome to our discussions.

We cover lots of different topics like how to prevent heart disease, living with a heart condition or even about our upcoming events. Or you can just relax and have a chat about TV or the latest book you've read in the social (off topic) section.

So take a look around and see what you're interested in.

Topic Discussions Posts Last post
General discussions
Introductions
New to the community? Introduce yourself here.
198
876 Welcome to our community by Freya BHF 17 hours 28 min ago
The Social (off topic chat)
A place to chat and relax.
23
197 Singers!? by Denley B 12 hours 24 min ago
Feedback on the BHF
Do you think we could do something better? Let us know here.
6
43 Community feedback by Roberto Community Manager 14 hours 30 min ago
Community guidelines
Find out do's and don'ts of the BHF community and give us any feedback.
13
57 Cardiac ablation for svt by Jo S 11 hours 11 min ago
BHF News
Latest news from the BHF
27
104 Hands-only CPR: not as hard as ... by margaret brain 14 hours 43 min ago
Heart health
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.
62
260 Research Dissertation by rebecca nicholson 11 hours 18 min ago
Treatments
A place to discuss and ask questions about your treatments.
25
177 Bisoprolol by timsk 15 hours 7 min ago
Tests
Got a test coming up and worried about it? Discuss different tests you are having.
3
29 Stopping clopidogrel by Sue Prebble3097 19/02/2012 - 5:27pm
Conditions
There are many heart conditions, discuss yours or read about other people's experiences.
32
137 mitral valve replacement by Amy83 11 hours 10 min ago
Prevention
Talk about how you can keep your heart healthy.
9
61 Brown Rice! by Charles Stuart 17/02/2012 - 9:58pm
Symptoms
Talk about your symptoms and connect with other people in similar circumstances
18
71 breathless by Tony P 20/02/2012 - 5:31pm
Get involved
Fundraising
Holding a fundraising event or want to talk about fundraising for us? This is the discussion for you!
8
30 Mending Broken Hearts by Andrew Bennett 16/02/2012 - 6:56pm
Events
Talk about the event you are taking part in for us, get tips and meet others.
20
140 Blenheim Palace Half Marathon by Rosemary Ward 1 day 18 hours ago
Volunteering
Are you a volunteer for us or want to be? Talk about volunteering here.
4
9 Does Volunteering From The ... by Roberto Community Manager 15/08/2011 - 8:12am
Campaigning
Share your campaigning stories and chat about our latest lobbying and campaigns.
6
19 Want to have your say on heart ... by Freya BHF 18 hours 4 min ago
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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.
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