Hypertensive Disease: Current Challenges, New Concepts, and Management: An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

by Frohlich, Edward D.

• ISBN13: 9781437710045
• ISBN10: 1437710042
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-06-01
• Publisher: SAUNDERS W B CO

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xv
Current Challenges and Unresolved Problems in Hypertensive Disease	p. 527
Hypertension: Reflections on Risks and Prognostication	p. 541
New Insights into Target Organ Involvement in Hypertension	p. 559
The Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System in Hypertension: Roles of Insulin Resistance and Oxidative Stress	p. 569
Arterial Aging and Subclinical Arterial Disease are Fundamentally Intertwined at Macroscopic and Molecular Levels	p. 583
Hypertension, Systolic Blood Pressure, and Large Arteries	p. 605
Oxidative Stress and Hypertension	p. 621
Towards a New Paradigm About Hypertensive Heart Disease	p. 637
Diastolic Dysfunction as a Link Between Hypertension and Heart Failure	p. 647
Hypertension and Cardiac Failure in its Various Forms	p. 665
Hypertension and Myocardial Ischemia	p. 681
The Kidney, Hypertension, and Remaining Challenges	p. 697
Current Approaches to Renovascular Hypertension	p. 717
Obesity and Hypertension: Mechanisms, Cardio-Renal Consequences, and Therapeutic Approaches	p. 733
Barriers to and Determinants of Medication Adherence in Hypertension Management: Perspective of the Cohort Study of Medication Adherence Among Older Adults	p. 753
Index	p. 771
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