Stages of Heart Failure
Your healthcare professional will check your heart’s current function to determine your stage of heart failure. Your symptoms, lab results, and personal risk factors help your healthcare team to identify the right stage.
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Patients at risk for heart failure but without current symptoms, without structural heart disease, and without abnormal cardiac biomarkers of stretch or injury.
Patients without current or previous symptoms of heart failure but with evidence of structural heart disease, increased filling pressures, or certain biomarker elevations.
Structural heart disease with current or previous symptoms of heart failure.
Significant heart failure symptoms that interfere with daily life and recurrent hospitalizations despite attempts to manage symptoms with lifestyle changes and medication.