Researchers revisit pulmonary arterial hypertension survival
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 14:14
in Health & Medicine
Setting out to determine the survival of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center and their colleagues also discovered that an equation used for more than 20 years to predict survival is outdated. Accordingly, they developed and recently published a new survival prediction equation that will impact clinical practice and the drug development process.
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