Pulmonary hypertension is common and carries a high mortality risk, with prognosis varying significantly by underlying etiology.
Etiology guides PH prognosis discussions; observational data leaves open whether targeted therapies improve outcomes by cause.
In this cohort, PHT was common and deadly. Left heart disease was the most common cause and had the worst prognosis and treated pulmonary arterial hypertension had the best prognosis.
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