A new symptom of heart failure (HF) has been described in recent years, that is being
called bendopnea [
[1]
]. This type of dyspnea is experienced while bending forward when putting on shoes
or tying them up within the first 30 s. It is secondary to an increase in cardiac
filling pressures [
[1]
]. In addition to being very prevalent in these patients (between 28 and 48.8%), it
is a short term predictor of readmission in stable HF and mortality in decompensated
HF [
[2]
,
[3]
]. On the other hand, this symptom has recently been described in the general population
without HF (6.7%) [
[4]
]. We conducted the present study to evaluate bendopnea as a risk factor of HF in general
healthy population.Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: January 21, 2020
Accepted:
January 10,
2020
Received:
January 3,
2020
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