Symptom check

Do you find it difficult to breathe when you walk comfortably up two flights of stairs?

Do you find it harder to breathe when you walk quickly, as if you were trying to catch a bus?

Do you take tablets or natural products for high blood pressure?

Do you feel tired and exhausted quickly?

Do you sleep with your upper body elevated at night? (e.g. several pillows or raised headboard)

Do you have shortness of breath at night?

Do you have to get up more than twice at night to urinate?

Do you have swollen feet or ankles?

Do you have high blood pressure?

Do you have heart palpitations?

You can measure your pulse: Is it faster than 80 beats per minute?

You can measure your pulse: Is it irregular?

If you have calculated a total of 10 points or more, heart failure is possible, with 20 or more points it is probable.

This result does not replace a medical examination or diagnosis. Please take this questionnaire with you to your next visit to your GP and discuss your symptoms as well as today's result there.

You can print the result at the bottom of this page or save it as a PDF file as a basis for your consultation with your doctor.