When Shortness of Breath May Mean More Than Heart Failure

Sometimes, it's due to coexisting pulmonary hypertension

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Blausen Medical Communications, Inc. | CC BY 4.0 Pulmonary hypertension is a type of blood pressure affecting the arteries leading from the heart to the lungs. It forces the right ventricle to work harder, which causes it to enlarge. Over time, it weakens and cannot pump blood to the lungs, forcing blood to flow backward.

Many people with heart failure become so accustomed to suffering from shortness of breath (dyspnea) that they are unaware that the symptom may be caused by a different disease process.

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