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What is heart failure?
Getting the diagnosis
Impact of the diagnosis
What causes it: heart attack and angina
Other causes: valvular disease and cardiomyopathy
People's ideas about causes
Stress and heart failure
Feeling breathless, tired and lifeless
Oedema, palpitations and wakefulness
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Tests and treatments :
Tests to measure heart function and strength
Angiograms and angioplasty
Beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors and diuretics
Warfarin, digoxin and statins
Side effects of medication
Surgery and medical devices for heart failure
Heart transplants
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Specialist nurses
Cardiac rehabilitation and support groups
Follow-up visits, hospitals and GP's
Communicating with medical staff
Living with it :
Home life and everyday routines
Sports, hobbies and activities
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Aged 51-60
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Interview HF37
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He can feel insecure and anxious at night unless his girlfriend is with him.
Diabetes for many years. Heart attacks 1992, 1995, 1998. Not sure when heart failure diagnosed, possibly 1998.
Heart disease
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Heart failure
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Aged 61-70
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Interview HF07
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Explains why she prefers to stay at home rather than take holidays abroad.
Asthma and high blood pressure. Became increasingly breathless during 2001. Heart failure diagnosed 2001.
Heart disease
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Heart failure
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Aged 51-60
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Interview HF27
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Prefers not to be away from home in case she's taken ill.
May have silent heart disease. Heart bypass 1999. Heart failure diagnosed. 2002 angioplasty and stent.
Heart disease
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Heart failure
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Aged 80+
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Interview HF40
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She was well looked after by airline staff when she flew to America. (Video and audio clips in Punjabi, text in english.)
Has had arthritis for many years. In 2001 became unwell with chest pains and soon afterwards heart failure was diagnosed.
Heart disease
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Heart failure
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Aged 61-70
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Interview HF21
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Describes how her husband gets anxious whenever she goes out so she takes him with her.
Interview with a carer, married to man who had a stroke in 2002 and developed heart failure soon afterwards.
Heart disease
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Heart failure
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Aged 71-80
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Interview HF20
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She cannot understand why her husband never worries anymore, even about important things.
Interview with a carer married to a man who developed heart failure in the late 1990s after several heart attacks.
Heart disease
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Heart failure
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Aged 31-40
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Interview HF42
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If he shares his fears about having heart failure it will just worry his wife and overburden his friends.
Diagnosed in 2001 after multiple heart attacks. Quadruple bypass. Developed heart failure subsequently.
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Bad days, anxiety and depression
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Bad days, anxiety and depression
Bad days, anxiety and depression
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