Healthy Heart
Practical advice on maintaining cardiovascular health through lifestyle choices. Articles cover cholesterol management, exercise, diet, smoking cessation, blood pressure control and understanding heart function.
All About the Heart Beat
Your heart beats 60 to 80 times a minute, but here's what actually happens inside it during each pump and when an irregular rhythm signals a problem.
Blood Pressure Monitors: Choosing and Using One at Home
Pick an upper arm monitor from a validated brand, then get accurate readings by sitting still with proper positioning.
Exercise and Healthy Eating
Regular exercise and a healthy diet strengthen your heart and reduce disease risk by improving circulation and lowering cholesterol.
Facts and Figures: Heart Disease in the UK
Heart disease kills 200,000 people yearly in the UK, with someone dying from a heart attack every six minutes.
Facts and Figures: Heart Disease Worldwide
Heart disease kills 17 million people yearly worldwide, with most deaths occurring in lower-income countries, not wealthy nations.
Giving Up Smoking and Your Heart
Smoking damages your heart by narrowing blood vessels, reducing oxygen, and thickening blood, here's what happens and why quitting matters.
Heart Attack Warning Signs Women Often Miss
Women often mistake heart attack symptoms for indigestion or fatigue, which is why they're more likely to miss critical warning signs.
Heart Disease and Your Mental Health
Why depression after a heart attack is common and why treating it matters just as much as treating your heart.
Heart Health for Kids
Help your kids develop healthy hearts early with simple everyday habits that stick with them for life.
Heart Health for Seniors
Heart disease, stroke, and angina become more common as we age, but protecting your heart through exercise and lifestyle changes can make a real difference.
Heart Health: Limiting Stress
Too much stress raises your blood pressure and forces your heart to work harder, so here's how to bring it down.
Heart Health: Moderate Drinking
Moderate drinking may protect your heart, but excessive alcohol raises blood pressure and increases stroke and heart attack risk.
How a Healthy Heart Works
Your heart is a muscular pump with four chambers and valves that work together to circulate blood throughout your body.
Issues Surrounding Heart Disease
Some ethnic groups in the UK face higher heart disease risk than others due to diet, lifestyle and biological differences.
Living with Heart Failure: A Practical Guide
Heart failure means your heart isn't pumping efficiently, but many people manage it well with the right medications, fluid control, and lifestyle changes.
Lowering Blood Pressure
High blood pressure can stem from diet, stress, and lifestyle habits, but there are ways to bring it back down.
Lowering Cholesterol
High cholesterol builds up in your arteries and increases your risk of heart attack or stroke, but you can lower it by eating less fat.
The Heart: Facts, Figures and Stats
Your heart beats nearly 3 billion times in a lifetime, pumping 200 million litres of blood to keep you alive.
What Are Thrombolytics?
Thrombolytics are powerful drugs that dissolve blood clots to restore blood flow and prevent tissue damage during heart attacks, strokes, and other emergencies.
What Happens at Cardiac Rehabilitation?
Cardiac rehabilitation is a structured program with personalised exercise sessions and professional support designed for people recovering from heart problems.