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How is Heart Failure detected?
Heart failure can be detected through blood tests and various scans such as an echocardiogram as Dr. Sunthar explains in this video.
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Once you have symptoms of heart failure, the most common test that will happen is a blood test and this is an NT-proBNP level. If that's elevated, that will then open the gateway to a number of other more sophisticated tests. The most common being an echocardiogram, which is an ultrasound of the heart. That will then confirm if you do or don't have heart failure and what specific subtype it is.
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