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Does anyone know the ejection fraction average by ages

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I am a 52 year old male with a 50 EF I have AF and waiting cardioversion . What should my score be for a average male clughtlybiver weight without AF ? The range if 50-75 seems to hot and miss

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Cardioversion not sure what I typed there 😀

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firstlight40

I can't say what the average is but at my echo taken just after my heart attack a year ago my EF was measured at 60-65% and I was told this is completely normal. I am 58. I am normal weight with bmi of 23.5

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NLGA in reply tofirstlight40

That’s good I’m 52 years old with 50 EF I don’t really know if it’s always been 50 as I thought my breathing issues were poor asthma control for many years

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shopman

To be honest 50% is pretty much near normal.

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NLGA in reply toshopman

Thank you . I just get concerned it’s borderline

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shopman

Have a read of this bhf.org.uk/informationsuppo... or for more look up Pumping Marvellous.

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NLGA in reply toshopman

Will do

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CazSpratty

I've just turned 50 and my EF is 30%. Was only diagnosed last week. I'm not sure that age matters as I think I'm quite young to have this. Just getting my head around things and doing lots of reading.

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NLGA in reply toCazSpratty

Yes I totally understand. How is your breathing I seem to get more breathing issues on certain days with no pattern to it a couple of weeks ago I had to stop just walking up 3 basic small flights of stairs yet another time a 4 mile walk doesn’t bother 3 weeks ago I was breathing heavy just walking into the supermarket .Are you symptoms similar

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HumanZoomieMachine in reply toCazSpratty

39 when was hospitalised if that make you feel any better, not like this is a competition or anything 🤣

Sending hugs

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NLGA in reply toHumanZoomieMachine

No I didn’t mean the number more like what was your breathing like as many people don’t seem to notice a low ejection and I did notice it due to my breathing

I was NYHA stage III when I went to the doctor's so I only feeling the windpipe 'tightness' during exercise/excursion

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NLGA in reply toHumanZoomieMachine

Really . See mine is no pain but more heavy breathing even a ling telephone call was making me breathless

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Survivor1952

When I was diagnosed in May my EF was around 30% and a BMI around 27. I was really struggling with episodes of breathlessness.

Following surgery I’m at 63%, 71 year old male with a BMI of 25 which is nicely under control now. The comments at discharge from hospital care were that everything is normal. I do like to now keep more of an eye on my BP than I used to.

The main reason for my high BMI at diagnosis was fluid retention due to my heart condition, it came down to just over 25 in 4 weeks as I was ‘dried out’.

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NLGA in reply toSurvivor1952

that’s really interesting

Could I ask what the operation was for

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