Hypertension medicine /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Totowa, N.J. :
Humana Press,
[2001]
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| Series: | Current clinical practice.
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Background issues in hypertension
- Studies justifying the use of treatment to prevent cardiovascular events / Henry R. Black
- Effects of aging on blood pressure / Vincent DeQuattro
- Effects of race on blood pressure / John M. Flack
- Genetics in hypertension / Joel M. Neutel, David H.G. Smith
- Sodium and other dietary factors / Myron H. Weinberger
- Role of stress in development of hypertension / Thomas G. Pickering
- Neuroendocrine factors: role of the sympathetic nervous and renin angiotensin systems / Stevo Julius
- Left ventricular hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction / George A. Mansoor, William B. White
- Role of the endothelium in hypertension / Ellis R. Levin
- Pt. 2. Diagnosis and special tests
- Systolic, diastolic, mean, or pulse pressure: which is the best predictor of hypertensive cardiovascular risk? / Stanley S. Franklin
- Manual blood pressure measurement - still the gold standard: why and how to measure blood pressure the old fashioned way / Carlene M. Grim, Clarence E. Grim
- Initial routine tests for diagnosis and risk stratification of the patient with hypertension: what is mandatory? / Tudor Vagaonescu, Robert A. Phillips
- When to suspect secondary hypertension / Donald G. Vidt
- Evaluation of renal function and proteinuria / Ira W. Reiser, Jerome G. Porush
- Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring / David H.G. Smith
- Arterial compliance and in hypertension / G.E. McVeigh, Li Lan Yoon
- Pt. 3. Principles of treatment
- Starting hypertension treatment: setting targets / Michael A. Weber
- Choosing the first agent / Matthew R. Weir
- Managing an inadequate response to the first agent: changing doses or drugs, adding drugs / L. Michael Prisant
- Rationale of low-dose combination therapy in cardiovascular risk management / Joel M. Neutel, David H.G. Smith
- How to monitor progress in hypertensive patients / Ehud Grossman
- Problems of treatment compliance and polypharmacy / Gordon S. Stokes, Philip A. Atkin
- Should treatment differ in African-American and Caucasian patients? / W. Dallas Hall
- Measuring the benefits of antihypertensive treatment / Michael A. Weber
- Pt. 4. Major hypertensive drug classes
- Diuretics in hypertension therapy / James R. Sowers, Joel M. Neutel, Matthew R. Weir
- β-adrenergic blocker treatment of hypertension: pharmacodynamics and guide to patient selection / Jon D. Blumenfeld
- Calcium antagonists / Franz H. Messerli, Jayant Dey, Zhanbin Feng
- Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors / Irene Gavras, Haralambos Gavras
- The angiotensin II receptor blockers / Michael A. Weber
- Selective α₁-blockers / Joseph L. Izzo, Jr.
- Centrally acting antihypertensive drugs / Mark Houston
- Pt. 5. Solving problems in hypertension management
- The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III: how are we doing with blood pressure control? / David A. Calhoun, Suzanne Oparil
- Lipid abnormalities and hypertension / Thomas D. Giles
- Diabetes and hypertension / Kurt M.R. Sowers, James R. Sowers
- Treatment of hypertensive patients with chronic renal insufficiency / Samuel Spitalewitz, Jerome G. Porush
- Treating angina pectoris in hypertension / Hal L. Chadow, Joel A. Strom
- Hypertension and its treatment in concomitant conditions: degenerative joint disease, depression, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease / Domenic A. Sica
- Cognitive disorders and dementia in hypertension: implications for treatment / Lena Kilander
- Refractory hypertension / C. Venkata S. Ram
- Hypertensive emergencies / Dilek K. Sowers
- Referring to hypertension experts: the hypertension consultant / Lawrence R. Krakoff.