Research Catalog

Title

Practical management of hypertension / edited by Willem H. Birkenhager.

Publication

Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Birkenhäger, W. H.

Description

x, 195 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

• The result of these efforts, we hope, will meet the needs of the practising physician on the basis of a thoughtful equilibrium between rapid orientation and a scientifically agreeable course of action.
• This compact guide is concerned with the practical aspects of managing the individual patient with hypertension, including associated risk factors. In order to bridge the gap between the vast expanse of modern hypertension research, and the everyday confrontation with the hypertensive subject in practice, an authoritative panel of scientifically oriented but also practically involved 'hypertensiologists' were invited to present their condensed views and derived protocols.

Series Statement

Developments in cardiovascular medicine ; v. 184

Uniform Title

Developments in cardiovascular medicine ; v. 184.

Subject

• Hypertension > therapy
• Hypertension

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface to Second Edition / Willem H. Birkenhager -- 1A. General principles of blood pressure measurement / Eoin O'Brien -- 1B. Conventional blood pressure measurement / Eoin O'Brien -- 1C. Automated blood pressure measurement / Eoin O'Brien -- 2. Pathophysiological basis of hypertension / Armin Distler and Arya M. Sharma -- 3. Cardiovascular risk associated with hypertension; interactions with other risk indicators / Jan Staessen, Victor Petrov and Robert Fagard -- 4. Evaluation of the hypertensive subject / Lennart Hansson and Anders Svensson -- 5. Special situations in hypertension (childhood and adolescence; pregnancy; old age) / Lawrence J. Beilin -- 6. How to deal with secondary hypertension / Frans Boomsma, Frans H. M. Derkx, Arie J. Man m't Veld and Anton H. van den Meiracker -- 7. Non-pharmacological intervention / Roger Shinton and Gareth Beevers --
• 8A. Drug treatment: efficacy and adverse effects. Specific responses in patient sub-groups and treatment approach / Gastone Leonetti and Cesare Cuspidi -- 8B. Antihypertensive drug combinations / Willem H. Birkenhager -- 9. Predictability, assessment and improvement of compliance with regard to taking antihypertensive drugs / Gaston E. Bauer -- Appendix: Profiles and dosages of antihypertensive drugs.

ISBN

0792339525 (HB : alk. paper)

LCCN

96000115

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries