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Table 5 Less typical symptoms and signs of heart failure

From: The epidemiology of heart failure in the general Australian community - study of heart failure in the Australian primary carE setting (SHAPE): methods

Symptoms

Signs

Nocturnal cough

Weight gain (> 2 kg/week)

Bendopnoea

Peripheral oedema (ankle, sacrum)

 

Pulmonary crackles

  1. Source: Atherton J, Sindone A, De Pasquale C, et al. National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand Guidelines for the prevention, detection and management of heart failure in Australia 2018
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