'If Something Is Off, Check It Out' - Offaly Nurse On Heart Fault Awareness Week

The Bump Up The Pump campaign runs until Sunday.

You know yourself best, and if you feel something is off you should get it checked out.

That's the advice from an Offaly nurse to mark European Heart Failure Awareness Week, with a Bump Up The Pump campaign running until Sunday.

Common symptoms of heart failure can include breathlessness, swelling in the ankles and chronic fatigue.

Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Edenderry's Emer Burke, says prevention in the first place is key:

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