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- The BHF's core drive is to ensure the sustainability of the healthcare sector. It aims to realise this by enabling medical schemes, managed care organisations and administrators to provide accessible, affordable, quality healthcare to their medical scheme members.
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The BHF researches cures and treatments for heart and circulatory diseases. We fund around £100 million of life saving research projects each year.
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- Symptoms of Heart Failure
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- Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction
When your heart isn’t pumping blood as well as it should, it means you’re not getting enough oxygen. This affects how your body works, including your breathing and muscles. This causes some of the main symptoms of heart failure, like: 1. fainting or feeling lightheaded 2. feeling increasingly tired or weak at rest which gets worse with movement 3. ...
There are many reasons why you may develop heart failure. It can happen suddenly or it can progress slowly over months or years. The most common causes of heart failure are: 1. a heart attack- this can cause long-term damage to your heart, affecting how your heart can pump blood 2. cardiomyopathy- a disease of the heart muscle which can be inherite...
Your doctor will ask about your medical history, symptoms and examine you. You may then be sent for tests such as: 1. a 24-hour ECG- in some cases, you may need this test which records the rhythm, rate and electrical activity of your heart over a longer period 2. a chest x-ray– to check if there's fluid in your lungs or if a lung condition is causi...
Your doctor may talk about the ‘ejection fraction’ of your heart. This is to do with the amount of blood squeezed out of the main chamber of the heart with every beat. It’s usually measured as a percentage – over 50% is considered normal. Your ejection fraction is measured from an echocardiogram. Heart Failure can be put into different groups depen...
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the improvement of pacemakers. the use of defibrillators in British ambulances. making heart failure easier to diagnose. But heart and circulatory diseases still kill 1 in 4 people in the UK. With your support, we'll keep funding research to improve millions more lives. Is this a monthly or one-off donation? Monthly One off.
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British Heart Foundation. The British Heart Foundation ( BHF) is a cardiovascular research charity in the United Kingdom. [4] . It funds medical research related to heart and circulatory diseases and their risk factors, and runs influencing work aimed at shaping public policy and raising awareness. [4]
