ABC of Hypertension, 5th Edition

by Gareth Beevers (City Hospital, Birmingham, UK); Gregory Y. H. Lip (City Hospital, Birmingham, UK); Eoin O'Brien (Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College Dublin, Ireland)

• ISBN13: 9781405171359
• ISBN10: 1405171359
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-07-01
• Publisher: BMJ Books

Summary

Hypertension is a condition which affects millions of people worldwide and its treatment greatly reduces the risk of strokes and heart attacks. This fully revised and updated edition of the ABC of Hypertension is an established guide providing all the non-specialist needs to know about the measurement of blood pressure and the investigation and management of hypertensive patients. This new edition provides comprehensively updated and revised information on how and whom to treat. The ABC of Hypertension will prove invaluable to general practitioners who may be screening large numbers of patients for hypertension, as well as nurse practitioners, midwives and other healthcare professionals.

Table of Contents

Prevalence and causes

Hypertension and vascular risk

Pathophysiology of hypertension

Measurement of blood pressure

Apects of measurement of blood pressure common to technique and patient

Conventional sphygmomanometry

Ambulatory blood pressure measurement

Self-measurement of blood pressure

Screening and management in primary care

Clinical assessment of patients with hypertension

Investigation in patients with hypertension

Non-pharmacological treatment of hypertension

Pharmacological treatment of hypertension

Hypertension in patients with cardiovascular disease

Special groups-diabetes, renal disease, and connective tissue disease

Ethnicity and age

Pregnancy and oral contraceptives

Appendix

Index

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