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When Your Blood Can’t Breathe: Iron, Anaemia, and the Breathless Heart
- Podcast
- The Naked Heart
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- Mar 27, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 1408
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Summary
When a patient arrives breathless and unable to climb a hill, the instinct is to blame the heart. Sometimes the answer lies in the blood itself. Iron deficiency anaemia reduces oxygen delivery, forces the heart into a hyperdynamic state, and can even produce a murmur over a completely normal valve. Read blog