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Living with heart failure as a patient of color

Heart failure patient Nefertari shares how she lives with heart failure as a person of color.


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  • Feeling dismissed while seeking heart failure treatment

  • Facing stigma while seeking a heart failure diagnosis

  • Access to heart failure resources as a person of color

  • Challenges accessing care for heart failure

  • Advocating for yourself with heart failure

  • Understanding heart failure: finding support

  • When to call your physician while living with heart failure

  • Heart disease: why women (especially Black women) need to act now

  • Understanding sodium and heart failure

  • How to manage heart failure medications

Up Next

  • Feeling dismissed while seeking heart failure treatment

  • Facing stigma while seeking a heart failure diagnosis

  • Access to heart failure resources as a person of color

  • Challenges accessing care for heart failure

  • Advocating for yourself with heart failure

  • Understanding heart failure: finding support

  • When to call your physician while living with heart failure

  • Heart disease: why women (especially Black women) need to act now

  • Understanding sodium and heart failure

  • How to manage heart failure medications

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