Clinical characteristics of pulmonary hypertension patients living in plain and high‐altitude regions

Abstract

The data from the hospitals in both the plain and high-altitude regions show a tendency towards increased in-hospital prevalence of PH over the last 6 years. The most common aetiologies of PH in patients living in the plain region and high-altitude regions were left heart disease and lung disease, respectively. Compared with PH patients living in the plain region, those living in the high-altitude region had better cardiac function and less severe PH.