Chang-Ying Chen, Wang Mei-Tzu, Shih-Hsien Sung, Yih-Jer Wu, Chih-Hsin Hsu, Wan-Jing Ho, Yen-Hung Lin, Wei-Shin Liu, Ju-Chi Liu, Yung-Ta Kao, Wen-Shiann Wu, Chun-Hsien Wu, Meng-Huan Lei, Yu-Wei Chen, Chien Chen-Yu, Yu-Wei Chiu, Zen-Kong Dai, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Lin Lin, Cheng-Chih Chung, Chang-Min Chung, Sung-Hao Huang, Chin-Chang Cheng, Yen-Wen Wu, Ting-Hsing Chao, Juey-Jen Hwang, Charles Jia-Yin Hou, Wei-Chun Huang
BACKGROUND: Demographics of pulmonary hypertension (PH) has changed a lot over the past forty years. Several recent registries noted an increase in mean age of PH but only a few of them investigated the characteristics of elderly patients. Thus, we aimed to analyze the characteristics of PH in such a population in this study. METHODS: This multicenter study enrolled patients diagnosed with PH in group 1, 3, 4, and 5 consecutively from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2020...
March 30, 2024: Heliyon