BHF Live & Ticking August 2021: Statins - The Drugs That Changed the World (60th birthday edition)

To celebrate 60 years of pioneering research, this special edition of Live & Ticking focuses on the innovative advances in heart surgery funded by the BHF over the decades.

• Professor Sir Nilesh Samani – BHF Medical Director celebrates 60 years of BHF-funded research by looking at a selection of research success stories from the past six decades.

• Professor Sir Rory Collins – BHF Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford, and Chief Executive of UK Biobank, shares his long and fruitful research career in understanding statins.

• Jan Barton-Wolfe – BHF supporter shares her personal experience of taking statins for familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH), an inherited condition.

• Regina Giblin – BHF Senior Cardiac Nurse answers clinical questions asked by our supporters.

All information in this video was correct at time of recording.

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