Author : Beevers / Y. H. Lip / O'Brien
Language: English
Finishing : Paperback, 136 pages
ISBN : 978-0-470-65962-5
Edition Number: 6/2014
Description:
High blood pressure is a common chronic medical problem encountered in primary care, yet it is commonly under diagnosed. ABC of Hypertension is a long established, practical guide to the investigation, treatment and management of hypertensive patients. This sixth edition:
- Provides practical guidance on measurement of blood pressure and the investigation and management of hypertensive patients
- Explains new developments in measurement and automated measurement of blood pressure and
- Updates coverage on treatment of the elderly and explains of the implications of recent trials
- Incorporates current British Hypertension Society and NICE guidelines
Table Of Contents:
- 1 The prevalence and causes of hypertension
- Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
- 2 Hypertension and vascular risk
- Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
- 3 athophysiology of hypertension
- Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
- 5 Screening and management in primary care
- Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
- 4 Blood Pressure Measurement
- Part 1: Factors influencing all techniques of blood pressure measurement
- Part 2: Conventional blood pressure measurement
- Part 3: Ambulatory blood pressure measurement
- Part 4: Self-blood pressure measurement
- Eoin O'Brien
- 6 Clinical assessment of patients with hypertension
- Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
- 7 Investigation in patients with hypertension
- Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
- 8 Non-pharmacological treatment of hypertension
- Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
- 9 The pharmacological treatment of hypertension and endovascular renal sympathetic denervation.
- Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
- 10 Hypertension in patients with cardiovascular disease
- Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
- 11 Special groups; diabetes mellitus, renal disease, renal artery stenosis and connective tissue diseases
- Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
- 12 Ethnicity, age and hypertension
- Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
- 13 Hypertension, pregnancy and the oral contraceptives
- Gregory Y H Lip, D Gareth Beevers
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