Pulmonary Hypertension: How PH Knowledge has Evolved

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Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a serious and rapidly progressive disease that affects the heart and the lungs. Patients living with pulmonary hypertension have to adapt their lifestyle to their new condition. Although they have some good days, PH makes patients feel exhausted all the time as they suffer from shortness of breath.

Read about 8 red flag pulmonary hypertension symptoms you should be aware of.

In this video from DiscoverActelion, you can learn more about PH, how Actelion has been supporting the patients’ community throughout the years, how they have been helping to raise awareness and working together with those communities to better understand and improve the management of pulmonary arterial hypertension, a subtype of pulmonary hypertension. Watch the video to understand this condition a little more and also to witness how the knowledge of PH has been evolving.

But how is pulmonary hypertension diagnosed? Learn more about it here.

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