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Discovery :
What is heart failure?
Getting the diagnosis
Impact of the diagnosis
What causes it: heart attack and angina
Other causes: valvular disease and cardiomyopathy
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Stress and heart failure
Feeling breathless, tired and lifeless
Oedema, palpitations and wakefulness
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Heart disease >> Heart failure >> Aged 80+ >> Interview HF09 >> He experienced bad sunburn because of one of his drugs.

1976 heart attack. Heart bypass 1992. Pacemaker 1997 (replaced 2000). Uncertain when heart failure diagnosed.

Heart disease >> Heart failure >> Aged 80+ >> Interview HF10 >> Reads out his medication from a list and works out that he takes 15 pills a day.

Diabetes 1982. 3 heart attacks; 1986, 1991,1996. Colorectal cancer 1988. Several small strokes. Uncertain when heart failure diagnosed - possibly during 1990s.

Heart disease >> Heart failure >> Aged 61-70 >> Interview HF01 >> Thinks that amiodarone affected the functioning of his thyroid.

3 heart attacks 1978, 1980, 1994. Angina. Ventricular tachycardia, Cannot recall being given a diagnosis of heart failure though he knows he has it.

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