This infographic contains some shocking details of the mortality rates due to cardiovascular disease in the UK and around the world. It shows why it’s so important to understand as …
Welcome to the fourth and final week of ‘Heart Health: A Beginner’s Guide to Cardiovascular Disease’. This week we will be looking at risk factors and prevention, before rounding up …
We hope that this course has helped you to understand how the cardiovascular system works, the causes and risk factors that contribute to cardiovascular disease and the effects that cardiovascular …
Dr Natasha Barrett reflects on what we have learnt this week about heart failure, hypertension, valvular disease and arrhythmias. Let us know what you think of this week. Have you …
The aim of this practical is to investigate the effects of heart failure. We will do this by using a simple hand soap dispenser to mimic the effects of the …
Welcome to Week 3 of ‘Heart Health: A Beginner’s Guide to Cardiovascular Disease’. This week we will be concentrating on four types of cardiovascular diseases. We will also investigate the …
The aim of this practical is to investigate the effect of thrombosis. We will do this by first making a mock thrombus out of jelly, then using this to mimic …
Welcome back. This week we will learn about some of the diseases that affect the heart and cardiovascular system and learn about blood clotting processes such as haemostasis and thrombosis. …
Dr Natasha Barrett reflects on how we have learnt about how a healthy heart and circulatory system works, so that we may understand more in the coming weeks about what …
We’ve designed this course to take into account your own learning style and the time that you have available. Each week we’ll present the core content in a series of …
Cardiovascular biology is an important area of research at the University of Reading. The Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research brings together experts from a variety of different departments across …
In this Step we’ll cover how to collate the information from your activity diary. To do this you’ll need to download the activity analysis worksheet. Collating your Activity Diary data …
Over the last four weeks you have been invited to complete a diary of your food intake and activity levels. In the next few Steps we’ll look at how to …
As with our diet, it’s widely known that physical activity levels affect our health. Not only do activity levels impact on our energy balance – and thus weight – other …
In this behind the scenes feature Professor David Leake discusses his role in the University of Reading teaching on a couple of the degree courses and researching atherosclerosis and cholesterol. …