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Patients in the community felt to have cardiac breathlessness by their general medical practitioner but not…
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Supports evaluating isolated diastolic dysfunction in community breathlessness; hypothesis-generating for primary-care screening pending prospective trials.
Isolated diastolic dysfunction is a common cause of breathlessness in the community setting among patients not referred to the hospital, often predating major cardiac events.
MacFadyen et al. (2001) studied this question.
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