A new study from the online journal Heart suggests a link between the tendency to become easily stressed in adolescents and a heightened risk of developing high blood pressure in later life.
The research looked at more than 1.5 million 18-year-old men with normal blood pressure, who had been conscripted to the army in Sweden between 1969 and 1997 until the end of 2012 and were assessed...
Almost three quarters of people in the South West have someone in their family with risk factors that put them greater risk of heart disease, according to new statistics released ahead of the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) Wear it. Beat it. campaign to get the nation wearing red to fight heart disease on Friday 5th February.
The BHF poll revealed over half of people in the South West...
A study published in the Lancet on 24 December suggests that blood pressure-lowering drugs should be offered to all individuals at high risk of having a heart attack or stroke regardless of their blood pressure at the start of treatment.,
Currently, doctors only offer blood pressure lowering drugs to people considered to have ‘high’ blood pressure. However, the research suggests that...
Drake Circus Shopping Centre would like to say a big thank you to its shoppers for donating to its British Heart Foundation (BHF) Bag It. Beat It. event helping the charity generate over 1 million bags of donated items.
The centre encouraged shoppers to give bags of unwanted items including clothes, CDs, DVDs and bric-à-brac. The items now go on to be sold in local BHF shops helping to...
Drake Circus Shopping Centre’s customers help the British Heart Foundation to Bag It. Beat It.
Drake Circus Shopping Centre’s 2015 Bag It. Beat It. stock appeal for The British Heart Foundation (BHF) launched on Wednesday 30th September when the Lord Mayor of Plymouth, Councillor John Mahony, donated the first bag of items. The items will now go on to be sold in BHF shops and help...
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the Department of Health (DH) are encouraging organisations in the South West to help make their communities safer as they launch a £1 million partnership to make public access defibrillators and CPR training more widely available across England.
The announcement comes as new figures from the BHF show few people in the South West are even aware...
Drake Circus Shopping Centre is delighted to announce they will be hosting British Heart Foundation (BHF) Bag It. Beat It. event on Wednesday 30th September which urges the Plymouth community to donate bags full of their unwanted stuff to be sold in local BHF shops. Every bag donated will help fund life saving heart research, helping over seven million people continue to fight heart disease...
New statistics show the majority of parents in the South West believe stopping children being exposed to junk food adverts could cut childhood obesity, as the British Heart Foundation (BHF) delivered a 30,000 strong petition to ban the adverts before 9pm to Britain’s most famous street.
The BHF polled 2,000 UK parents and found 67% of parents in the South West believe that stopping...
Jogging between one and two-and-a-half hours a week could be the answer to living longer according a new study.
Researchers from Copenhagen followed 1,098 healthy joggers and 3,950 non joggers to investigate how different running habits affected their long-term health.
The study, which looked at frequency of running, hours jogged and individual pace, found participants were...
People in the South West believe children should be taught CPR in schools, according to new research by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
The BHF polled over 2,000 people and found that 89% of people in the South West thought that children should leave secondary school knowing the life-saving skill.
More than 30,000 people have a cardiac arrest outside of hospital, but less...
