In this issue of the journal Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, important and original research work on rats is published. The work is important because pulmonary hypertension represents a serious pathology that is very difficult to treat. The only way to relieve patients is lung transplantation, but are very well known the difficulties and limitations of this treatment. The work is also original because a lot has been published about the beneficial effects of copaiba oil, such as its anti-inflammatory action, […]

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is a complex endocrinological syndrome that presents in women with obesity, insulin resistance and sex hormone abnormalities. It is intriguing that in otherwise ‘idiopathic’ pulmonary hypertension, there also seems to be a high prevalence of the same features of obesity, insulin resistance, and sex hormone abnormalities.– However, despite this overlap and a theoretical risk of pulmonary hypertension in PCOS, little is known about the intersection of the two conditions. Given the young age of patients at […]