It Starts with Your Heart: Understanding Heart and Circulatory Diseases

Online Course

British Heart Foundation

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It Starts with Your Heart: Understanding Heart and Circulatory Diseases

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What is the course about?

It Starts with Your Heart: Understanding Heart and Circulatory Diseases

The course It Starts with Your Heart: Understanding Heart and Circulatory Diseases is an online class provided by British Heart Foundation through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Every three minutes, someone in the UK dies from heart and circulatory disease. Let’s beat heartbreak forever.

Course description

1 in 4 of us will die from heart and circulatory diseases. Let us change that.
3 weeks

When was the last time you had a conversation about heart or circulatory diseases? They are the world’s biggest killers but we don’t often talk about them. We want to change that. People are often surprised to hear about how diseases like coronary heart disease, stroke, vascular dementia and diabetes are connected. This course will help you learn more about what these diseases are, the effect that they have on your body and how our pioneering research is taking us closer to a world without them – helping you to have conversations that have the potential to beat heartbreak forever.

Explore what heart and circulatory diseases and their risk factors are
Understand the impact they have globally, in the UK and in our community
Explore how these diseases are connected by your circulatory system
You’ll also get a taste of how our research is beating heartbreak forever

This course is aimed at anyone who wants to learn more about the fundamentals of heart and circulatory diseases and the things that cause them.
You might be personally affected by heart or circulatory diseases, or maybe you’ve recently been told you’re at risk of developing them. You may be looking to improve your knowledge so you can better support a loved one or a healthcare professional looking to help people better understand and talk about heart and circulatory diseases.
Whatever you’ve come here for – we hope you take something meaningful away.
No prior knowledge of heart or circulatory diseases is needed.

British Heart Foundation
The British Heart Foundation raises money to fund research to keep hearts beating and blood flowing. Their vision is a world without heart and circulatory diseases.

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Prerequisites & Facts

It Starts with Your Heart: Understanding Heart and Circulatory Diseases

Course Topic

Healthcare & Medicine

University, College, Institution

British Heart Foundation

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Degree & Cost

It Starts with Your Heart: Understanding Heart and Circulatory Diseases

To obtain a verified certificate from Future Learn / British Heart Foundation you have to finish this course or the latest version of it, if there is a new edition. The class may be free of charge, but there could be some cost to receive a verified certificate or to access the learning materials. The specifics of the course may have been changed, please consult the provider to get the latest quotes and news.

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It Starts with Your Heart: Understanding Heart and Circulatory Diseases

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