{"title":"Pulmonary hypertension in the primary care setting","authors":"S. Lua, C. Church","doi":"10.1002/psb.2022","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Pulmonary hypertension can be very difficult to identify and patients often experience a long delay before diagnosis. This article aims to raise awareness of pulmonary hypertension in the primary care setting, and discusses the role of the GP in diagnosis and management, with a focus on pulmonary arterial hypertension.","PeriodicalId":88184,"journal":{"name":"The Prescriber","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Prescriber","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1002/psb.2022","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Pulmonary hypertension can be very difficult to identify and patients often experience a long delay before diagnosis. This article aims to raise awareness of pulmonary hypertension in the primary care setting, and discusses the role of the GP in diagnosis and management, with a focus on pulmonary arterial hypertension.