Recognizing the symptoms of heart failure

Filed in archive Diagnostics on August 30, 2005

Apparently, many are not aware of the symptoms of heart failure:

Lives could be lost unnecessarily due to a massive lack of public awareness about heart failure, an international survey has found.

Almost 90% of nearly 8,000 people surveyed in nine European countries had heard of heart failure.

But just 3% could identify the condition from a description of typical symptoms - such as breathlessness, tiredness and swollen ankles.