Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a chronic and progressive disease in which the arteries that supply blood to the lungs are constricted resulting in symptoms such as shortness of breath heart palpitations fatigue and others. In PAH persistently high blood pressure in lung arteries makes the right side of the heart work too hard to pump blood resulting in right-sided heart failure. According to a new study published in the journal Hypertension everyone has a collection of bacteria in their gut -- known as microbiota -- that aid in digestion. The researchers found that having a specific microbiota profile in
