Blood Pressure Control

✍ Scribed by Thomas G. Coleman (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1981
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• Series: Blood Pressure Control 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The way in which blood pressure is controlled is not well understood. I offer as evidence the spirited debates among scientists that have occurred in the past and that will probably continue for some time to come. Consider also that hypertension is a disease of significant morbidity and mortality, yet in the majority of instances the cause of the pressure elevation is unknown. And further, the wide variety of antihypertensive drugs currently used, often without a full understanding of the mechanisms involved, suggests that we often know as little about what decreases blood pressure with antihypertensive therapy as we know about what increases pressure in the first place. This ignorance has fostered and probably justified extensive inquiries into outstanding problems of blood pressure control. The pace has quickened in the last one or two decades, and published reports germaine to the subject appear to be accumulating at an exponential rate. Hence, speaking for myself, the reviewer is faced with too little understanding and too much information.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Arterial Blood Pressure....Pages 1-3
Blood Pressure Measurement....Pages 4-10
Blood Pressure in Humans and Epidemiology....Pages 11-21
A Brief History of the Study of Blood Pressure Control....Pages 22-26
Experimental Hypertension....Pages 27-29
Hypertension Caused by Renal Artery Stenosis: Goldblatt Hypertension....Pages 30-49
Hypertension Caused by other Renal Insults....Pages 50-52
Coarctation of the Aorta....Pages 53-57
Hypertension due to Excessive Dietary Sodium and/or Adrenal Steroids....Pages 58-70
Renoprival Hypertension....Pages 71-79
Neurogenic Hypertension....Pages 80-87
Hypertension due to Infused Vasocontrictor Agents....Pages 88-92
Genetic or Spontaneous Hypertension in Animals....Pages 93-95
Genetic Hypertension: The Okamoto Strain of Rats....Pages 96-102
Genetic Hypertension: The Dahl Substrains of Salt-Sensitive and Salt-Resistant Rats....Pages 103-107
Genetic Hypertension: Other Models....Pages 108-111
The Physiology of Essential Hypertension....Pages 112-123
Antihypertensive Therapy....Pages 124-133
The Effects of Converting Enzyme Inhibition....Pages 134-145
A Synthesis of the Elements of Blood Pressure Control....Pages 146-149
Back Matter....Pages 150-248

✦ Subjects

Cardiology