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Study links advanced PAH to diabetes

Roughly one in four people with idiopathic (of unknown cause) pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) also have diabetes, a disease that causes high blood glucose (sugar), a multi-center Polish study found. Having diabetes was linked to more advanced pulmonary vascular disease and worse survival, which held true even after accounting…

Balloon pulmonary angioplasty can pose risks for CTEPH patients

Older age and high blood pressure in the pulmonary arteries raise the risk of complications with balloon pulmonary angioplasty (BPA), a second-line treatment for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), a study suggested. If high blood pressure persists after surgery to remove the pulmonary arterial blood clots that cause…

Tenax receives patent for TNX-103, oral levosimendan, for PH-HFpEF

Tenax Therapeutics has been issued a U.S. patent covering oral levosimendan, also known as TNX-103, for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (PH-HFpEF). The patent (U.S. Patent No. 11,701,355) is expected to provide intellectual property protection for TNX-103 through December 2040.

Air pollution exposure linked to PH, UK population study shows

Exposure to air pollutants significantly increased the risk of pulmonary hypertension (PH), according to a U.K. population study that included almost 500,000 people. Previous or current smoking increased PH risk and mortality even further, suggesting a synergistic relationship, the researchers noted. The large-scale study, “Dynamic association…