Chronic heart failure leads to higher risk of iron deficiency: Patients need testing

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Chronic heart failure leads to higher risk of iron deficiency: Patients need testing

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Vanessa Weenink

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Fatigue is a clinical consequence of iron de ciency in patients with CHF

Treating iron deficiency in heart failure improves patients’ energy, exercise capacity and quality of life, and cuts their risks for hospitalisation and death

Anaemia is a frequent finding in patients with chronic heart failure; it is present in approximate­ly one-third of patients with CHF.1–3 Anaemia in CH