Validity of clinical diagnosis of heart failure in primary health care.
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Summary
Obesity, unrecognized symptomatic myocardial ischaemia without HF and pulmonary diseases were the most important conditions leading to false-positive HF diagnosis and HF diagnosis was more difficult in women than in men.
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- 1991-03-01
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Keywords
Medicine, Heart failure, Primary care, Clinical diagnosis, Internal medicine
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