Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility
The Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility (CCRF) is one of the core 
clinical research facilities of the Radcliffe Department of Medicine. CCRF provides a dedicated, staffed clinical research environment with particular expertise in echocardiography, vascular assessment and clinical physiology.
Latest Publications
Predicting the future with echocardiography: Looking outside the heart?
Leeson P., (2017), Eur J Prev Cardiol, 24, 1515 - 1516
Two-Dimensional Echocardiography Estimates of Fetal Ventricular Mass throughout Gestation.
Aye CYL. et al, (2018), Fetal Diagn Ther, 44, 18 - 27
Disproportionate cardiac hypertrophy during early postnatal development in infants born preterm.
Aye CYL. et al, (2017), Pediatr Res, 82, 36 - 46
Long-term cerebral white and gray matter changes after preeclampsia.
Siepmann T. et al, (2017), Neurology, 88, 1256 - 1264
Hypertension: Hypertension in pregnancy: a risk factor for the whole family?
Yu GZ. and Leeson P., (2017), Nat Rev Nephrol, 13, 326 - 327
Latest News and Events
Exercise in young adults with high blood pressure alters blood vessel structure in the brain
10 February 2023
Exercise changes internal carotid artery size, even when blood pressure is not lowered.
RDM researchers awarded £2million MRC grant
16 March 2022
Critical six-week window to ‘reset’ blood pressure after giving birth
28 June 2021
Home blood pressure monitors could help mothers significantly lower high blood pressure after pregnancy
