How to Keep your Heart Healthy

The Naked Scientists Podcast

Dr Chris Smith

Natural Sciences, Science, Science Radio, Naked Scientists, Health & Fitness, Engineering, Medicine, Technology, Life Sciences

4.6 • 958 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2016

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This programme comes to you from the British Cardiovascular Society Conference in Manchester, where leaders in the field have been presenting their latest research on preventing heart disease: one of the leading causes of death. We explore the radioactive toothpaste that can help you predict heart attacks, listen in to a genuine heart transplant and ask whether running really keeps your heart healthy. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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0:00.0	I have you loud and clear.
0:03.6	Hello.
0:04.6	Hello.
0:05.6	Welcome.
0:06.6	Science and that is the same physics, medicine, nature, or time, a brain, life, the universe.
0:17.0	This week the naked scientists get to the heart of heart disease.
0:21.0	This show comes to you from the British Cardiovascular Society conference in Manchester,
0:25.3	where we've been busy scoping out the biggest breakthroughs in heart research,
0:29.5	including how to prevent heart disease using everything from lycra to toothpaste.
0:34.3	I'm Georgia Mills and I'm Chris Smith and this is the Naked Scientists.
0:38.8	The Naked Scientists podcast is powered by UKfast.co.uk.
0:44.0	The
0:45.0	Cardiobascular disease, that's disease affecting the heart and blood vessels,
0:55.8	accounts for a quarter of all deaths in the UK,
0:59.0	and it's around the same in the US and Australia.
1:01.6	In fact, it's the single biggest killer in the West.
1:05.0	At this week's British Cardiovascular Society Conference which has been happening in Manchester,
1:10.0	leading researchers from across the UK have been meeting to discuss how best to predict and prevent heart disease.
1:17.0	The conference is supported by the British Heart Foundation, or B.H.F, which spends 100 million pounds on heart research every year.
1:25.0	Professor Peter Weisberg is the Charities Medical Director.
1:28.0	We've done extraordinarily well as a community for heart disease over the last 50 years.
1:34.8	So British Heart Foundation has been around just over 50 years and in that time there's been
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