Diagnosing heart failure in primary care: lessons from EPICA

Abstract

EditorialDiagnosing heart failure in primary care: lessons from EPICA Heart failure is common. However, the size of this population is dwarfed by the number of patients in whom the diagnosis is suspected [1]. Indeed, one of the reasons that the diagnosis of heart failure is commonly missed is because so many patients who do not have this problem have symptoms or events that could be interpreted as heart 1388-9842/$ -see front matter D