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Keywords: Adult; Cardiovascular Disease; Cohort Studies; Echocardiography; Epidemiology; Familial Primary Pulmonary Hypertension; Female; Health risk assessment; Humans; Hypertension, Pulmonary - diagnostic imaging; Hypertension, Pulmonary - etiology; Male; Medical prognosis; Middle Aged; Mortality; Proportional Hazards Models; Pulmonary arteries; Pulmonary hypertension; Raynaud disease; Respiratory Function Tests; Retrospective Studies; Rheumatology; Risk factors; Scleroderma; Scleroderma, Systemic - complications; Scleroderma, Systemic - diagnostic imaging; Scleroderma, Systemic - mortality; Studies; Systemic Sclerosis; Systole - physiology; Ultrasonic imaging; Ventricular Pressure - physiology; Cardiovascular Disease; Systemic Sclerosis; Epidemiology