Release Date: 12/30/2009

Johns Hopkins Children’s Center cardiologist Allen Everett recently won more than $460,000 in stimulus grant funding to identify the biomarkers of idiopathic pulmonary hypertension (IPH), a progressive and highly lethal condition in children and adults marked by persistently elevated pressure in the artery that carries blood from the heart to the lungs.

For more information; http://www.hopkinschildrens.org/biomarkers-of-pulmonary-hypertension.aspx