Reducing high blood pressure substantially lowers the risk of dementia and cognitive impairment without dementia, according ...

E-cigarette use is linked to increased risk of COPD and possibly hypertension, though less harmful than traditional smoking, ...

The following is a summary of “Right atrial reservoir strain as an early predictor of pulmonary hypertension development in ...

The Jigawa State Government has announced plans to introduce free drugs for patients with diabetes, hypertension, and sickle cell disease across the state. The State Commissioner for Health ...

Original Medicare and Part C should provide a comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program for a person who has chronic issues with breathing. Original Medicare includes Part A, which is ...

Pulmonary sarcoidosis is a lung disease characterized ... treating other ILDs and is running a clinical trial now for scleroderma-related ILD. The work highlights macrophages as a possible target ...

The importance of hypertension of the pulmonary circulation in the natural history of mitral stenosis has been appreciated for many years. Many of the classic signs of this type of cardiac disease ...

Background Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) lacks community prevalence and outcome data. Objective To characterise minimum ‘indicative’ prevalences and mortality data for all forms of PHT in a selected ...

This pathway may present a promising target for new therapeutic interventions in SSc. Previous studies have shown that PEDF is highly expressed in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and is inducible by TGF ...

None of them focused specifically on adherence to pharmacological therapy for hypertension in Portugal. Considering the high prevalence of non-adherence and its location-specific aspects, the priority ...

Background Recent evidence showed that 50% of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) may be attributable to air pollution. We aimed to investigate the association between long-term air pollution ...

The right ventricle is thin-walled with much less muscle than the left ventricle and pumps under low pressure. Pulmonary hypertension is elevated blood pressure in the pulmonary artery. It can lead to ...