The Silent Signs of Heart Failure

Dr Raja Ezman Faridz Raja Shariff, Consultant Cardiologist, UiTM | Tan Mee Hui, Living with Heart Failure

20-Sep-24 16:00

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Your heart works day and night to keep blood pumping throughout your body, but what happens when your heart begins to fail? Would you even notice? We speak to Dr Raja Ezman Faridz Raja Sharif, Consultant Cardiologist and Head of Heart Failure Services, Hospital Al-Sultan Abdullah UiTM about the challenges in detecting and treating heart failure, as well as Tan Mee Hui, who discovered she has heart failure in her 30s.

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Produced by: Lim Sue Ann

Presented by: Tee Shiao Eek

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Categories: wellness, managing disease, medical advances

Tags: the bigger picture, health and living, heart failure, heart health, fatigue, noncommunicable diseases,

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