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Follow your treatment plan, get regular care, and learn how to monitor your condition. Taking these steps can slow down the progression of the disease and may improve your condition. Your specific treatment plan will depend on the cause of your pulmonary hypertension, as well as how advanced it is.

Your doctor may recommend healthy lifestyle changes, medicines, or other treatments aimed at keeping your symptoms from getting worse, increasing your ability to exercise, improving heart function, and ensuring a better quality of life. There is no cure for pulmonary hypertension unless chronic blood clots in the lungs are the cause.

Your doctor may diagnose pulmonary hypertension based on your risk factors and symptoms. A diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension will be made if tests show higher-than-normal pressure in the pulmonary arteries.

Your age, environment, family history and genetics, lifestyle habits, medicines you are taking, other medical conditions, and sex can raise your risk of pulmonary hypertension.

Signs and symptoms of pulmonary hypertension are sometimes hard to recognize, because they are similar to those of other medical conditions. People may have symptoms for years before being diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension. These symptoms may get worse over time and could eventually lead to serious complications such as right heart failure.

Screening is not usually performed unless you have known risk factors such as scleroderma. Your doctor may recommend prevention strategies to help you lower your risk of developing pulmonary hypertension.

Your genes or other medical conditions can cause pulmonary hypertension. Certain medical conditions can damage, change, or block the blood vessels of the pulmonary arteries. The cause of pulmonary hypertension is not always clear.

El síndrome de fatiga crónica (CFS, por sus siglas en inglés), también conocido como encefalomielitis miálgica (EM) o EM/CFS, es una enfermedad crónica compleja que afecta a casi 1 millon de estadounidenses. Las mujeres tienen entre dos y cuatro veces más posibilidades que los hombres de ser diagnosticadas con EM/CFS. Las personas que padecen EM/CFS tienen síntomas que dificultan las tareas cotidianas que la mayoría de nosotros hacemos sin siquiera pensarlas, como vestirse o bañarse. Actualmente no existe ningún tratamiento específico aprobado por la Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos contra el EM/CFS. En general el tratamiento consiste en aliviar los síntomas.

La clamidia es una infección de transmisión sexual (ITS). Por lo general, la clamidia se contagia a través del sexo anal, oral o vaginal. La clamidia es una de las infecciones de transmisión sexual (ITS) más frecuentes en mujeres, especialmente en jóvenes de entre 15 y 24 años. Por lo general, no presenta síntomas. La clamidia se puede tratar con antibióticos. Si no se la trata, puede provocar problemas de salud graves para las mujeres, como por ejemplo, la dificultad para concebir.