EPISODE · Jun 21, 2016 · 5 MIN

Iron Up Against Heart Failure

from Naked Scientists Special Editions ENHANCED · host The Naked Scientists

Chronic Heart Failure is the inability of your heart to effectively pump blood around your body and affects over half a million people in the UK alone. So what causes it and could treatments lie in something as simple as iron? Doctor Paul Kalra is a cardiologist from Portsmouth Hospital and he gave Chris Smith the lowdown. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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