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In the first official news on her cause of death on Dec. 31,
the family of the Grammy-winning jazz, pop and soul singer said
that Cole was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary arterial
hypertension after a successful kidney transplant in 2009.
"She responded well to pulmonary arterial hypertension specific
agents over many years, during which she performed many concerts
worldwide, but eventually succumbed to intractable right heart
failure, an outcome that unfortunately commonly occurs in this
progressive disorder," her family said in a statement on Friday.
Cole's death at age 65 in a Los Angeles hospital caused an
outpouring of tributes from the music world for the daughter of
late singing legend Nat King Cole.
Cole underwent a kidney transplant after being diagnosed with
hepatitis C following a period of heroin, crack and drug abuse
and came back to perform concerts around the world.
(Reporting By Jill Serjeant; Editing by Andrew Hay)
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