The BHF Data Science Centre is a partnership between Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) and the British Heart Foundation (BHF), and sits within HDR UK.
We work with a wide range of partners including patients, public, clinicians, researchers and NHS organisations to help them carry out research using health data into the causes, prevention and treatment of all diseases of the heart and circulation (such heart attacks, stroke and vascular dementia). We do this to ensure new advances in treatment and care for diseases of the heart and circulation get to the patient as quickly as possible.
All analysis plans, protocols, code, code lists and reports will be made publicly available in repositories in this GitHub organisation, our website, our collection on the Health Data Research Innovation Gateway and through open-access publications.
Additional information on the data available for each of our projects can be found below.
- COVID-19 diagnosis, vaccination during pregnancy, and adverse pregnancy outcomes of 865,654 women in England and Wales: a population-based cohort study (2024)
- COVID-19 vaccination and birth outcomes of 186,990 women vaccinated before pregnancy: an England-wide cohort study (2024)
- Cohort study of cardiovascular safety of different COVID-19 vaccination doses among 46 million adults in England (2024)
- Vaccinations, cardiovascular drugs, hospitalisation and mortality in COVID-19 and Long COVID (2024)
- Risk of cardiovascular events following COVID-19 in people with and without pre-existing chronic respiratory disease (2024)
- A nationwide, population-based study on specialized care for acute heart failure throughout the COVID-19 pandemic (2024)
- Ethnicity data resource in population-wide health records: completeness, coverage and granularity of diversity (2024)
- Undervaccination and severe COVID-19 outcomes: meta-analysis of national cohort studies in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (2024)
- Understanding covid-19 outcomes among people with intellectual disabilities in England (2023)
- Sars-Cov-2 Infection in People with Type 1 Diabetes and Hospital Admission: An Analysis of Risk Factors for England (2023)
- Antipsychotic drug prescribing and mortality in people with dementia before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study in Wales, UK (2023)
- Hospital admissions linked to SARS-CoV-2 infection in children and adolescents: cohort study of 3.2 million first ascertained infections in England (2023)
- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiovascular disease prevention and management (2023)
- Harmonising electronic health records for reproducible research: challenges, solutions and recommendations from a UK-wide COVID-19 research collaboration (2023)
- Better End of Life 2022. Mind the gaps: understanding and improving out-of-hours care for people with advanced illness and their informal carers. Research report. (2022)
- Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on secondary care for cardiovascular disease in the UK: an electronic health record analysis across three countries (2022)
- Using national electronic health records for pandemic preparedness: validation of a parsimonious model for predicting excess deaths among those with COVID-19 – a data-driven retrospective cohort study (2022)
- Association of COVID-19 with major arterial and venous thrombotic diseases: a population-wide cohort study of 48 million adults in England and Wales (2022)
- A retrospective cohort study measured predicting and validating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in individuals with chronic kidney disease (2022)
- COVID-19 trajectories among 57 million adults in England: a cohort study using electronic health records (2022)
- Evaluation of antithrombotic use and COVID-19 outcomes in a nationwide atrial fibrillation cohort (2022)
- Association of COVID-19 vaccines ChAdOx1 and BNT162b2 with major venous, arterial, or thrombocytopenic events: A population-based cohort study of 46 million adults in England (2022)
- Linking electronic health records for research on a nationwide cohort including over 54 million people in England (2021)
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