Heart Disease

Heart disease and strokes are the biggest killers in the UK and an estimated total of 2.6 million live with the ravaging effects of heart and circulatory disease.

Glasgow is a strategically important centre for research into heart disease and stroke.  The University's research programme is based at the BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre.

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Areas of Research

Glasgow's Faculty of Medicine has an excellent reputation in cardiovascular medicine.

The faculty has specific strengths:

• understanding the mechanisms responsible for chronic heart failure including heart muscle damage and heart rhythm disorders
• the role of oxidant stress with regard to arterial disease
• unravelling the processes responsible for high blood pressure and its relationship with obesity and Type II diabetes
• understanding the relationships between genetics and high blood pressure and arterial disease
• internationally renowned clinical trials which have contributed to significant advances in the control of high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol,
• production of treatments to improve the outcome of patients with heart failure

Find out more about Cardiovascular Research at the University of Glasgow.