| The disease Hypertension can be a frightening | | | | decreasing pulmonary pressure, and especially, |
| scenario. Additionally, just as high blood pressure is | | | | providing an opportunity to expand your lifespan. |
| difficult to identify, it does affect 1 of 3 adults in the | | | | There are actually two forms of Pulmonary |
| United States alone. Coincidently, Pulmonary Arterial | | | | Hypertension, yet one of them is generally caused by |
| Hypertension is a rare disease and it does not have a | | | | other conditions or diseases such as emphysema or |
| cure. If you were to become a victim of this rare | | | | blood clots to the lungs. This type of the disease is |
| arterial disease, immediately seek Pulmonary | | | | called Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary |
| Hypertension treatment. | | | | Hypertension. Unfortunately, this condition is often |
| If you are diagnosed with Pulmonary Hypertension, | | | | unnoticed or even misdiagnosed. The two diseases |
| there are a variety of specialized treatments that are | | | | are quite different and so are the treatments. With |
| available for you. The treatments are effective for | | | | successful treatment of other conditions, however, it |
| reducing symptoms, increasing daily activity, | | | | may stop the progression of Pulmonary Hypertension. |