Research Catalog

Title

Blood pressure monitoring in cardiovsacular medicine and therapeutics / edited by William B. White.

Publication

Totowa, N.J. : Humana ; Oxford : Blackwell [distributor], 2007.

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Additional Authors

White, William B., 1953-

Description

xvi, 494 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Clinical hypertension and vascular diseases

Uniform Title

Clinical hypertension and vascular diseases.

Subject

• Hemodynamic monitoring
• Blood pressure
• Circadian rhythms
• Cardiovascular system > Diagnosis
• Hypertension
• Blood Pressure > physiology
• Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory
• Cardiovascular Diseases > physiopathology
• Chronobiology Phenomena
• Circadian Rhythm > physiology
• Heart Rate
• Hypertension > diagnosis
• Hypertension > therapy

Note

• Previous ed.: 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Out-of-office blood pressure monitoring -- 1. Self-monitoring of blood pressure / Thomas G. Pickering -- 2. Evaluation of journals, diaries, and indexes of work-site and environmental stress / Gary D. James -- 3. Electronic activity recording in cardiovascular disease / George A. Mansoor -- 4. Ambulatory monitoring of blood pressure : devices, analysis, and clinical utility / Subramanian Krishnan and William B. White -- 5. Validation and reliability of blood pressure monitors / Eoin O'Brien and Neil Atkins -- Pt. II. Circadian variation of cardiovascular disease -- 6. Circadian rhythmic and environmental determinants of 24-hour blood pressure regulation in normal and hypertensive conditions / Francesco Portaluppi and Michael H. Smolensky -- 7. Circadian variation of blood pressure in the population at large / Hilde Celis and Jan A. Staessen -- 8. Importance of heart rate in determining cardiovascular risk / Paolo Palatini -- 9. Sodium, potassium, the sympathetic nervous system, and the renin-angiotensin system : impact on the circadian variability in blood pressure / Domenic A. Sica and Dawn K. Wilson -- 10. Prognostic value of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring / Paolo Verdecchia, Fabio Angeli and Giuseppe Schillaci -- 11. Day/night pattern of myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death : interacting roles of the endogenous circadian system and behavioral triggers / Steven A. Shea, Michael F. Hilton and James E. Mutter -- 12. Seasonal, weekly and circadian variability of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke / Tudor D. Vagaonescu and Robert A. Phillips -- Pt. III. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in special populations -- 13. Ambulatory blood pressure in older patients / L. Michael Prisant and Pamela J. Fall -- 14. Ambulatory blood pressure in children and adolescents / Monesha Gupta-Malhotra and Ronald Portman -- 15. Ambulatory blood pressure during pregnancy / Deborah Feldman -- 16. Ambulatory blood pressure in patients with chronic kidney disease / Sergio F. F. Santos and Aldo J. Peixoto -- Pt. IV. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring and therapy -- 17. Chronobiology and chronopharmacology of hypertension : importance of timing of dosing / Bjorn Lemmer -- 18. Advances in ambulatory blood pressure monitoring for the evaluation of antihypertensive therapy / William B. White -- 19. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in clinical practice / David H. G. Smith and Joel M. Neutel.

ISBN

• 1588295125 (hbk.)
• 9781588295125 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 174104907
• ocn174104907
• SCSB-5363284

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries