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Echocardiographic Pulmonary Arterial Capacitance Predicts PH Mortality

12/17/2020

Pulmonary arterial capacitance is a strong predictor of clinical outcomes for patients with pulmonary hypertension. The researchers assessed whether an echocardiographic surrogate for pulmonary arterial...

12/17/2020

Risk Management

Discrimination Ability of PAH Risk Scores Drops in Intermediate-Risk Populations

11/25/2020

In a new systematic review, researchers aimed to summarize the current data on risk prognostic models and scores for pulmonary arterial hypertension.

11/25/2020

Hypertension

Smoking Impacts Kidney Function in Arterial Hypertension

11/24/2020

In a recent study, researchers sought to examine the relationship between smoking, nutritional status, and renal function in patients with arterial hypertension.

11/24/2020

Exercise

How Hypoxia Affects Exercise Capacity Among Patients With PH

10/29/2020

A new study highlights the effects of normobaric hypoxia on exercise performance among patients with pulmonary hypertension. Lead author Silvia Ulrich, MD, answered our questions about her team’s study. ...

10/29/2020

weight

In PAH, Is BMI Linked to Exercise Capacity, Hemodynamics?

05/08/2020

It is unclear whether body size is linked to clinical and hemodynamic characteristics in PAH. In turn, researchers evaluated the relationship between body mass index, exercise capacity, and hemodynamics...

05/08/2020

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