What causes high altitude heart disease?

High altitude heart disease can be divided into the main causes and predisposing factors.

1, the main cause of patients

in a long-term state of hypoxia lead to pulmonary hypertension, so that pulmonary small blood vessels contraction, causing high altitude heart disease. At the same time, the human body's oxygen content will decrease with the increase in altitude, high altitude easily lead to patients with hypoxia, high altitude heart disease.

2, predisposing factors

Long-term smoking can lead to increased pulmonary arterial pressure, frequent physical labor, emotional depression and respiratory tract infection, etc., easy to make patients oxygen consumption increased, thus inducing high altitude heart disease.