Useful Links
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has an informative website.
A short BHF "women and Heart Disease" leaflet can be downloaded here.
The BHF also run the Heart Information Line, a phone line staffed by cardiac nurses and information officers that you can call on 08450 70 80 70 (calls charged at your local rate).
The National Heart Forum is a leading alliance of over 40 national organisations working to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease in the UK.
The Stroke Association was one of the original supporters of the BWHHS. They run a Stroke Information Service, with a help line available on 0845 3033 100.
The BWHHS is based in the Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology Unit at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
The BWHHS has recently moved from the Department of Social Medicine at the University of Bristol. We are still working closely with colleagues there.
Our study was designed to mirror a long standing study of men -British Regional Heart Study, Which has been running for more than 25 years.
World Heart Federation hosts a list of international conferences and meetings in the area of epidemiology and heart disease research.
Other studies that you may find interesting include:
The Nurse Health Study, based at Harvard.
The US Women's Health Initiative.
The Million Women Study, based at the University of Oxford.
The Farmingham Heart Study, which looked at heart disease in both men and women.
The Whitehall II study examines health in both men and women.
