"Hypertension" is edited by Matthew R. Weir, MD, professor of medicine and director of the division of nephrology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The book's purpose is to succinctly answer the important questions in this area: Is there an ideal blood pressure? How are blood pressure goals to be achieved? What lifestyle modifications can be recommended? What drugs should be used when, and how? What about possible side effects? In 14 chapters, 23 contributing authors provide the answers.
The book includes numerous tables and summaries of key points. Furthermore, each topic, including hypertension in the elderly and in the pregnant patient, is considered in an open and honest fashion by experienced clinicians who have devoted most of their medical careers to improving strategies for managing hypertensive patients. Authors provide their personal views, not a dispassionate listing of the various options or the currently popular consensus treatments.
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"Hypertension" Table of Contents
Preface
1. Prevention, Detection, and Clinical Presentations
2. Epidemiology of Hypertensive Cardiovascular Risk
3. Evaluation and Measurement of Blood Pressure
4. Principles of Hypertension Treatment: How Low Should You Go?
5. Nonpharmacological Therapy of Hypertension
6. Pharmacology of Antihypertensive Drugs
7. Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease: Implications of Therapy
8. Hypertension and Kidney Disease
9. Future Considerations for Antihypertensive Therapy: Lessons from Outcome Trials
10. Secondary Hypertension
11. Controversies and Safety of Antihypertensive Medications
12. Hypertensive Urgencies and Emergencies: Considerations for Treatment
13. Hypertension in the Elderly
14. Hypertension in Pregnancy