You may read the previous post (Part 1):
- The Rainbow Before Evening : The Pulmonary Hypertension Type – Part 1 - Cardiovascular 4
The signs could be normally enlargement of veins on the side of the neck, irregular heart sounds and swelling in the some areas of body such as abdomen, legs, or feet.
Both asthma and COPD are serious health problems, and asthma is the problem for more than 300 million people worldwide.
The COPD could further cause morbidity and mortality. Both are different diseases but have similarities in term of pathophysiologic characteristics.
The World Health Organization (WHO) categorized five groups of pulmonary hypertension (please see image 1 at Part 1: The Pulmonary Hypertension Type – Part 1 - Cardiovascular 4).
The 5 groups are:
2) Pulmonary hypertension of heart diseases
3) Pulmonary hypertension of lung diseases
4) Pulmonary hypertension of chronic thromboembolism
5) and pulmonary hypertension of unclear multifactorial mechanism.
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