Hellenic Pulmonary Hypertension (HPH) participated in the original Classic Athens Marathon that took place on November 8th, 2015, along with a record of 43,000 runners from all over the world! In that historic international sport event, HPH was represented...
By LEONOR MATEUS FERREIRA Medikidz book aims at helping children better understand and cope with a parent’s disease. The latest comic book in a peer-reviewed series on pulmonary hypertension (PH) has been launched by Medikidz, with the collaboration of the Imperial College...
Hellenic Pulmonary Hypertension together with seventy-one pulmonary hypertension patient leaders from 30 countries took part in the 2015 edition of the APHEC. The program started with the Annual General Assembly, the elections for the new Board and Auditors, and the...
By Patricia Silva, PhD A study led by researchers at the Imperial College London in the United Kingdom was recently published in the journal Nature reporting the discovery of a gene involved in pulmonary hypertension pathology. The study is entitled “The zinc transporter ZIP12...
By Patricia Silva, PhD Gilead Sciences, Inc. recently announced the publication of data in The New England Journal of Medicine concerning the AMBITION trial evaluating the combination therapy of Letairis® (ambrisentan) and tadalafil for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). The AMBITION trial (NCT01178073) is a multicenter,...
By Maureen Newman The recent announcement of positive results for the AMBITION trial testing combinatorial ambrisentan and tadalafil in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is bringing more attention to the need to actively recruit participants for clinical trials. Without patients and clinicians interested in...
By Patricia Inacio, PhD In a new study entitled “Symptom Interference Severity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension,” researchers determined which symptoms experienced by those with pulmonary arterial hypertension are the most self-limiting and interfering with patients daily quality of...
By Christine Traxler, MD An 18 year-long prospective study on the length of television watching and the risk of pulmonary embolism revealed a positive correlation between the length of time a person watches television per day and the risk...
By Christine Traxler, MD It was once thought among doctors that patients with pulmonary hypertension, many of whom can’t even walk a short distance without being short of breath, shouldn’t exercise. Pulmonary hypertension is a disease that leads to high blood pressure...
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