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The power of thinking big

Population studies on a vast scale are providing the power to enable accurate risk assessment - and intervention - into cardiovascular disease.

Delivering better ways of preventing stillbirth

Despite recent dramatic reductions in cot death rates in the UK, and the development of sophisticated screening for Down's syndrome, preventing stillbirth is proving tougher to tackle. Now, a major study under way at Cambridge could change all that.

Scientists develop new technique that could improve heart attack prediction

First use of PET and CT to look at disease processes leading to heart attack.

New test could help thousands of patients with high blood pressure

Scan can detect 5p-sized growth that causes hypertension.

High-risk hearts: a South Asian epidemic

Why is heart disease increasing at a greater rate in South Asia than in any other region globally? Large-scale population studies in Pakistan and Bangladesh aim to discover the basis of a little-studied public health problem of epidemic proportions.

You are what your mother ate

Research provides new insight into why poor diet during pregnancy negatively affects offspring's long term health.

Middle aged diabetics can die six years earlier

Having diabetes in mid-life may reduce a person's life expectancy by an average of six years, according to a large, multinational study coordinated by the University of Cambridge.

Blood pressure breakthrough holds real hope

Scientists have discovered a mechanism which raises blood pressure in pre-eclampsia, a potentially deadly condition which occurs during pregnancy.

Scientists find “missing link” between heart failure and environment

Scientists have found what they believe is the missing link between heart failure, our genes and our environment. The study could open up completely new ways of managing and treating heart disease.

Prenatal origins of heart disease

Studies in La Paz, the highest city in the world, are helping to uncover a link between prenatal conditions and heart disease in later life.