Thursday, December 10, 2009

Borderline pulmonary hypertension in Scleroderma

The lost table from my previous post on this topic, showing difference in 6 minute walk test distance covered in a group of 29 patients with systemic sclerosis but no heart or lung disease, who develop pulmonary hypertension on exertion, divided into two halves - above and below median pulmonary artery pressure. From recent paper in AJRCCM.



Figure 1. Six-minute-walk distance (mean ± SD) in patients with mean pulmonary arterial pressure values above (white) and below (black) the median as measured at rest (P < 0.005), at 25W (P < 0.005), at 50W (P < 0.0005), and at maximal exercise (not significant). *P < 0.005; **P < 0.0005.

Andrew

1 comment:

  1. Hi, I'm Karen. Since my mother was diagnosed with Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension 4 months, I've decided to make a blog to help raise awareness of PAH. Perhaps you'd consider linking to my blog - it's http://hypertension-pulmonary.blogspot.com/

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