(Source: Griffith University) Griffith Professor Norm Morris will join a medical research expedition to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in a bid to better understand pulmonary hypertension and heart failure by measuring the effects of increased altitude. A key feature of the pulmonary hypertension is a marked decrease in exercise tolerance and an increased shortness of breath on mild exertion, similar to what mountain climbers experience at high altitude. Pulmonary hypertension occurs when the pressure of the blood travelling between the heart and...
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