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Heart Failure Risk Factors and Symptoms

Heart failure risk factors

  • High blood pressure
  • Previous heart attack
  • History of heart murmurs
  • Enlarged heart
  • Diabetes
  • Family history of enlarged heart

Symptoms that might suggest heart failure

Breathing Difficulties

 

Shortness of breath from walking stairs or simple activities

 

Trouble breathing when resting or lying down

 

Waking up breathless at night

 

Needing more than two pillows to sleep at night


Fatigue/Exercise Intolerance

 

Tiring easily

 

Swelling of feet, ankles or legs

 

General feeling of fatigue


Coughing

 

Frequent coughing

 

Coughing that produces mucus or pink, blood-tinged sputum

 

Dry, hacking cough when lying flat in bed