Hypertension /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weir, Matthew R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : American College of Physicians, [2005]
Series:ACP key diseases series.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Prevention, detection, and clinical presentations of hypertension
  • Epidemiology of hypertensive cardiovascular risk
  • Evaluation and measurement of blood pressure
  • Principles of hypertension treatment : how low should you go?
  • Nonpharmacological therapy of hypertension
  • Pharmacology of antihypertensive drugs
  • Hypertension and cardiovascular disease : implications of therapy
  • Hypertension and kidney disease
  • Future considerations for antihypertensive therapy : lessons from outcome trials
  • Secondary hypertension
  • Controversies and safety of antihypertensive medications
  • Hypertensive urgencies and emergencies : considerations for treatment
  • Hypertension in the elderly
  • Hypertension in pregnancy