Natalie Cole Cause Of Death Revealed

Natalie Cole’s family said the singer’s cause of death was
idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, which led to heart failure.

Her family said in a statement to The Associated Press on
Thursday that after Cole received a kidney transplant in 2009, she was
diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension, a rare lung disease that causes
shortness of breath, dizziness and sometimes chest pain. Because Cole’s case
was idiopathic, the exact cause is unknown.

The statement read: “(Cole) responded well to
pulmonary arterial hypertension-specific agents over many years, during which
she performed many concerts world-wide, but eventually succumbed to intractable
right heart failure, an outcome that unfortunately commonly occurs in this
progressive disorder.”

Cole died last week. She had battled drug problems and
hepatitis that forced her to undergo a kidney transplant.