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Spring 2017 UPDATE YOUR CONTACT DETAILS If the details we hold are incorrect or require updating, please complete this form. Alternatively, call the Heart Matters Helpline on 0300 330 3300, or visit our website at bhf.org.uk/login, to update your details. Please complete the form in capital letters using black biro and keep all letters FREE in the boxes provided, otherwise your details may not be captured correctly. C O D PULL OUT Title First name AND KEEP BRUNCH Last name RECIPE CARDS Address Line 1 Address Line 2 City/Town Air pollution and County heart disease risk BHF special report Postcode Home phone number Please complete without spaces Mobile phone number Put a cross (x) in the relevant boxes Would you like to be an online-only member? This means we will stop posting the magazine to you, but we’ll email you twice a month with the best bits from the magazine – plus you can read it any time at bhf.org.uk/heartmattersmag. 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HEARTBEAT Please note, you must tick the Heart Matters cancellation box in the section above to cancel your membership as well. bhf.org.uk of things after a stroke DUE TO THE TIME TAKEN TO PROCESS THIS INFORMATION, CHANGES MAY TAKE FOUR TO SIX WEEKS TO COME INTO EFFECT FILL IN THIS FORM, TEAR, FOLD, MOISTEN AND SEAL Inside the magazine of the British Heart Foundation Spring 2017 YOUR BHF 4 Your letters 6 N e w s Sudden change A stroke can seem like the end BHF breakthrough in Jason explains how he learned of life as you know it. heartbeat research to adapt after a cardiac arrest It’s a feeling familiar to many 8 Spotlight on... Turn to page 41 people who experience a sudden air pollution health issue, whether it’s a cardiac Why this is an invisible arrest, heart attack or something problem, and how you else. But life can go on. Sometimes it can reduce your risk 10 Behind the headlines is different. Sometimes it is possible Is working out at the to make positive changes. weekend enough? Jason Gutridge felt like his life 49 Dictionary was over when he suffered from a Medical terms sudden cardiac arrest. He explains explained how he learned to adjust (page 41). 50 Information In our cover story (page 11), three and support inspiring survivors, Paul, Mark and A guide to our Margaret, explain how they’ve free resources discovered that there is a life after a stroke and have even embraced MY STORY new opportunities. We’re working to 11 Life after stroke Three stroke survivors stop people suffering from strokes, share their inspiring too. That’s why Professor Joanna recovery stories Wardlaw is researching a type called 22 Riding high lacunar stroke (page 35). It leaves How pursuing new holes in the brain that can lead to interests helped problems processing information Mike through his MEDICAL NUTRITION and even dementia. She’s trying to heart problems 15 Ask the experts 26 Rise and shine find new treatments. Are branded Start your day right All our research aims to find medicines better? Plus with one of these solutions for real problems, so we migraine and stroke must-try breakfasts can stop the devastation of heart 16 Testing times: echo and circulatory disease. That’s what How echocardiograms can help diagnose drives Professor Paolo Madeddu, too heart problems (page 32). In a fascinating interview, 18 Vital statistics: he tells us how the pain that comes RESEARCH weight and waist with a heart attack could actually 32 No pain, no gain? What these help the body to heal itself. How pain could help measurements can 28 Plant power when it comes to tell you about your How to get protein heart attacks heart risk without meat, and the 35 Watch this space 19 Focus on: endocarditis benefits it can bring How a little-known We look at this rare 31 Ask the expert stroke can leave heart infection and ‘Clean eating’ and Sarah Brealey, Editor Cover photography: Greg Funnell. Photography:Iwan Gareth Jones photography: Funnell. Greg Cover holes in the brain speak to those affected artificial sweeteners 2 Heart Matters Our expert team Recipe writer BHF Associate Senior Cardiac Nurse Moyra Fraser Medical Director Emily Reeve is our resident food Dr Mike Knapton has worked in writer. She’s a former has 30 years of general and Telegraph food experience as a cardiology nursing columnist and GP and is a director with a background in author of numerous at Addenbrooke’s cardiac rehab. cookery books. Hospital, Cambridge. Consultant Senior Cardiac Nurse Senior Dietitian Cardiologist Maureen Talbot Victoria Taylor Dr Rajan Sharma has worked in the NHS began her career in Our guest expert and private sector in the NHS and public is Head of Clinical general and cardiac health campaigns. Services at St nursing for more than She advises on George’s Hospital 25 years. She leads the nutrition and acts as in London. BHF Clinical Team. our spokesperson. Online exclusives bhf.org.uk/heartmattersmag ≠ Watch: How are we changing lives through research? We reveal the ‘bench to bedside’ process ≠ Look inside the body in this animation and discover what happens when you exercise ≠ Meet the stars of our cover ≠ Watch what happens when story, as they discuss the Plus Recipes: ACTIVITY you breathe in polluted air and reality of life after a stroke healthy brunch 44 Six super find out how to protect yourself reasons to bowl ≠ Quiz: High-protein food is WELLBEING Our guide to getting ≠ Play our simple swaps game, very trendy, but how much do 38 Choosing wisely started with bowls to give the food you love a you actually know about this How do you make 46 Fit for surgery? Mediterranean twist fashionable food group? decisions about your Waiting for an treatment quickly? operation? Learn how 41 The psychology getting active can help of recovery Heart Matters is published by Wardour on behalf of Getting back to the British Heart Foundation, Greater London House, 180 Hampstead Road, London NW1 7AW. normal after a sudden The British Heart Foundation is a registered charity in England and change in your health Wales (225971) and in Scotland (SC039426). ISSN 1745-9753 Views expressed in this magazine are not necessarily those of the British Heart Foundation or Wardour. The BHF does not endorse For Wardour third-party products and services featured in Heart Matters. Information Managing Editor: Rachael Healy correct at time of going to press. © BHF 2017. Heart Matters is printed Art Director: Colin Wilson on paper from sustainable forests. 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Margaret Wragg, Altrincham, Cheshire cooked as you describe would STAR be consistent with a heart- LETTER healthy diet, and we could also have said that eggs poached Cycling around the world Obviously, for many 18,000 miles. A couple of or fried in a little unsaturated My husband has always reasons, it was not practical months and he hopes to oil on wholegrain toast are enjoyed cycling. Even as a to do the actual trip, but have completed his ‘round healthier than a fry-up. teenager, it was a favourite in miles he could! Only a the world trip’. I too had way of relaxing at weekends, couple of months after his a heart operation, a valve Healthy pies touring around the lovely operation, he was back on replacement and single I was interested in your article scenery of Scotland. his bike, doing what he could bypass, three years before ‘Have your pie & eat it’ (Winter Five years ago, he had manage safely. Five years my husband, and have a 2016/17). I now make many a triple heart bypassD at later, he has been out almost pacemaker. I accompany pies and pasties using ordinary Papworth Hospital.