It's not pre hypertension, it's actual hypertension, high blood pressure.

I was starting my career as an opera singer in Europe, when I was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension also known as PH.

Well, no sign of hypertension.

There's actually a for the first time now, something going to human trials, that actually cures pulmonary hypertension a fatal disease using gene therapy.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

While she didn't have any medical evidence to back up her claim that there was a relationship between operatic arias and pulmonary hypertension, she was absolutely emphatic

And there are no visible signs of hypertension.

And this is my right pulmonary artery. So this is my right and left pulmonary artery.

Pulmonary flow. So, what does that mean?

Up here you have the pulmonary valve.

And I've drawn it as one tube with no split and this is the pulmonary trunk. Pulmonary trunk.

I like to do things big, and it meant one thing there is a big gun treatment for pulmonary hypertension called Flolan, and it's not just a drug it's a way of life.

Right here in Tanzania, 30 percent of individuals have hypertension.

Diabetes I've just mentioned. Heart failure we already talked about. Hypertension

These are just for information hypertension, diabetes, obesity, lack of exercise.

Your skin tone suggests you might be suffering from arterial hypertension.

I'm actually just gonna write that here Pulmonary circulation.

The pulmonary veins drain blood and into the left atrium, right.

And this part of the journey is called the pulmonary circulation.

And remember I call them arteries, because they're going away from the heart. And there are two arteries, so pulmonary arteries left and right pulmonary arteries.

If we can treat hypertension alone in Africa, we'll save 250,000 lives a year.

But the actual number could be a few pulmonary veins in total.

The bullet lacerated his pulmonary artery and lodged in his thoracic region.

And then it's gonna come out on the other side, in the pulmonary veins.

I've drawn the pulmonary valve as being open, but is that really the case?

I had high blood pressure, Diabetes and a pulmonary embolism the sizer of a smart car.

You've got pulmonary arteries carrying blood, you've got bronchial arteries carrying blood and that blood mixes.

I want to talk about the other pandemic, which is cardiovascular disease, diabetes, hypertension all of which are completely preventable for at

The job, the second job of the heart, is actually also in this picture, and it's called pulmonary flow.

And actually here I'm gonna make the point that there aren't just two pulmonary veins, one for each lung.

And the first one, the pulmonary circulation, is really kind of relying on the right vetricle as the pump.

You can see how the pulmonary and aortic valve are closed when the mitral and tricuspid valve are open.

From the body... to the right auricle... to the right ventricle... and out the pulmonary arteries to the lungs.

So what you see kind of colored in now, is the pulmonary circulation. That's the first part of our circuit.

But before it goes it has to passed another valve. So this is a valve right here. Call it Pulmonary valve.

And it gives you the clue where the things we are going to go next. Because the word pulmonary means lungs.

So there's this actual extra little step here, where blood is going to and from the lungs, and that's the pulmonary flow.

I had a heart catheterization, where they measure this internal arterial pulmonary pressure, which is supposed to be between 15 and 20.

What if we take a new device and knock out the nerve vessels that help mediate blood pressure and in a single therapy to cure hypertension?

Now, if they're serving the heart muscles and the heart cells, then, think about it, would they fit under the systemic flow, or pulmonary flow?

So it's going from the pulmonary trunk, it's splitting into one of the two tubes and I'm drawing the left and right lung up top.

We hear about pre hypertension, we hear about pre dementia, we hear about pre anxiety, and I'm pretty sure that I diagnosed myself with that in the green room.

So blood goes through the lungs and then comes out on the other side and there, we're gonna talked about the left and right pulmonary veins.

And then you've got the capillaries, you've got some blood kind of from both places the pulmonary circulation and the blood from the systemic circulation again mixing.

And It's again stopped a little bit there, but I can fill it in and the pulmonary veins are gonna deliver that oxygenated blood to the left atrium.