Graham Alexander MacGregor is a British academic, professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Wolfson Institute,

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MacGregor trained at Charing Cross Hospital where he was taught by the distinguished

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, Professor Hugh de Wardener. MacGregor's own speciality at this stage was also in kidney disease. He developed an interest in the relationship between kidney function and

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which led him to a parallel campaigning role, attempting to persuade food manufacturers to reduce the quantity of salt in factory produced food. He founded Blood Pressure UK in 2001. More recently he has become chairman of Action on Sugar. MacGregor is also honorary consultant physician at St George's Hospital, London, and a visiting professor at St George's Hospital Medical School, London. He was appointed

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(CBE) in the

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for services to cardiovascular disease.

Recognition

McGregor was listed in the IoS Happy List, 2012.

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