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Help, facts & lifestyle advice

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  • How your heart works
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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

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Heart Matters
Heartstart UK
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Health at Work
Hearty Lives
Get Involved

Events, fundraising & campaigning

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  • Red for Heart

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.

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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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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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  • Research milestones
  • Meet our researchers
  • Centres of research excellence
  • Our science image competition
  • Research policies
  • Researcher noticeboard
  • Research grants
  • Mending Broken Hearts
  • Our research spending

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.

Read about our impact
Community

Connect & share experiences

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  • About our online community
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  • How to get social with us
  • Our blog
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  • Your stories
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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  • What we do
  • Our annual review
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  • Our history
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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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Statistics

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  • Economic costs of CVD
  • Heart statistics publications

Related links

  • Our research
  • Heart health
  • British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group at the University of Oxford

Visit our Hope Tank

Oxford UniversityHeart statistics

Heart groupWe collect the most comprehensive and
up-to-date statistics on the effects, prevention, treatment and causes of heart disease in the UK.

Five most recent statistics publications

Download our latest statistics publication




 


Deaths from heart and circulatory diseasePeople living with heart disease, heart attack and strokeDiet, exercise, ethnicity and other risk factors for heart disease

Five most recent publications

Trends in Coronary Heart Disease 1961-2011

 Coronary Heart Disease Statistics 2010

 Ethnic Differences in Cardiovascular Disease 2010

 Stroke Statistics 2009

 European Cardiovascular Disease Statistics 2008

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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