A patient is diagnosed with diastolic heart failure. What should the nurse realize is the cause of this type of heart failure? Select all that apply.

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1. Diastolic dysfunction occurs when the ventricle is normal sized by hypertrophied.
2. In diastolic heart failure, blood backs up from the right ventricle to the right atrium.
3. In diastolic heart failure, there is a loss of left ventricular diastolic relaxation.
4. Blood does not back up into the left atrium in diastolic heart failure.
5. Excessive fluid in the lower extremities does not cause diastolic heart failure.

A Patient Is Diagnosed with Diastolic Heart Failure