Hypertensive disease : current challenges, new concepts, and management

Author(s)

• Frohlich, Edward D.

Bibliographic Information

Hypertensive disease : current challenges, new concepts, and management

guest editor, Edward D. Frohlich

（The Medical clinics of North America, v. 93, no. 3）

Saunders, 2009

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This issue of the Medical Clinics of North America brings the practicing clinician up to date on the current challenges, new concepts, and management of hypertensive disease. Topics covered include risks in hypertension; new biological concepts of target organ involvement in hypertension; hypertension and the metabolic syndrome; aging versus hypertension; hypertension, systolic blood pressure, and large arteries; oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction, and hypertension; current thinking about hypertensive heart disease; diastolic dysfunction as a link between hypertension and heart failure; hypertension and cardiac failure in its various forms; hypertension and atherogenesis; the kidney, hypertension, and remaining challenges; current thinking about renovascular hypertension; obesity and hypertension; and barriers to adherence in hypertension management.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

• NCID: BB10349496
• ISBN:
  • 9781437710045
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa.
• Pages/Volumes: xx, p. [527]-786
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RC60
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Hypertension
  • MESH : Hypertension -- complications
  • MESH : Hypertension -- physiopathology
  • MESH : Cardiovascular Diseases -- etiology
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA19073091