Professor Bryan Williams: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- based at UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science and also chief scientific and medical officer at the British Heart Foundation
- Quoted on
- Public health & prevention, Heart disease & stroke
- Press citations held
- 4
- Most recently quoted
- 10 Sept 2026
“Elevated blood pressure in childhood often persists into adulthood, increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke later in life.”
What Professor Bryan Williams has said
“This interesting research suggests that we should be encouraging people to get regular blood pressure checks from a younger age, when it is often much easier to control. 'It should also prompt us doctors to reconsider whether we should be recommending earlier lifestyle changes or medication to bring people's blood pressure back under control as soon as it becomes elevated, to provide longer term health benefits.'”
based at UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science and also chief scientific and medical officer at the British Heart Foundation · Heart disease & stroke · 10 Sept 2026 · New study suggests benefit of earlier-life blood pressure checks and management ↗
“The test "could benefit patients around the world". "After a diagnosis of HCM, patients and their families want to know what the future holds. This study shows that measuring various proteins circulating in the blood could help predict how the heart is functioning and future risk of complications from heart disease."”
Chief scientific and medical officer of the British Heart Foundation · Heart disease & stroke · 10 Sept 2026 · Blood test could predict who is most at risk from common inherited heart condition ↗
“These findings are hugely important and provide authoritative, evidence-based reassurance for patients. Among the large number of patients assessed in this well-conducted analysis, only four side effects out of 66 were found to have any association with taking statins, and only in a very small proportion of patients.”
chief scientific and medical officer at the British Heart Foundation · Heart disease & stroke · 10 Sept 2026 · Statins not linked with most side effects in patient information leaflets ↗
Where Professor Bryan Williams has been quoted
- High blood pressure rates in children nearly doubled in 20 years, global review findstheguardian.com · 10 Sept 2026
- New study suggests benefit of earlier-life blood pressure checks and managementpulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
- Blood test could predict who is most at risk from common inherited heart conditiontheguardian.com · 10 Sept 2026
- Statins not linked with most side effects in patient information leafletspulsetoday.co.uk · 10 Sept 2026
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