Hypertension: from basic research to clinical practice

✍ Scribed by Md. Shahidul Islam (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 620
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 956
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Hypertension: from basic research to clinical practice” contains a unique collection of selected chapters written by experts and enthusiasts engaged in research and treatment of hypertension, a condition that affects around a billion people in the world. The chapters describe fundamental researches at cellular and molecular levels to the science, and art of treatment of the condition in clinical practice. The topics included ranges from pathophysiology of hypertension, through monitoring of hypertension, to the treatment of hypertension in different patient categories. It contains essential background information as well as cutting edge research, and state of the art treatment alternatives in this broad field. From the beginners, and research students to the expert clinicians, and established scientists, everybody has something to learn from this book.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Hypertension: From Basic Research to Clinical Practice....Pages 1-2
Understanding Blood Pressure Variation and Variability: Biological Importance and Clinical Significance....Pages 3-19
Novel Pathophysiological Mechanisms in Hypertension....Pages 21-35
Pathophysiological Mechanisms and Correlates of Therapeutic Pharmacological Interventions in Essential Arterial Hypertension....Pages 37-59
Impact of Salt Intake on the Pathogenesis and Treatment of Hypertension....Pages 61-84
Principles of Blood Pressure Measurement – Current Techniques, Office vs Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurement.....Pages 85-96
Blood Pressure Self-Measurement....Pages 97-107
Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertension....Pages 109-116
Treatment of Hypertension: Which Goal for Which Patient?....Pages 117-127
Adherence to Treatment in Hypertension....Pages 129-147
The Role of Beta-Blockers in the Treatment of Hypertension....Pages 149-166
Challenges in the Management of Hypertension in Older Populations....Pages 167-180
Resistant Hypertension....Pages 181-189
Renal Ultrasound (and Doppler Sonography) in Hypertension: An Update....Pages 191-208
Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis....Pages 209-213
Endocrine Hypertension: A Practical Approach....Pages 215-237
Phaeochromocytoma and Paraganglioma....Pages 239-259
Renal Denervation....Pages 261-277
Subclinical Kidney Damage in Hypertensive Patients: A Renal Window Opened on the Cardiovascular System. Focus on Microalbuminuria....Pages 279-306
Hypertension in Chronic Kidney Disease....Pages 307-325
Hypertension in the Hemodialysis Patient....Pages 327-340
Unique Considerations When Managing Hypertension in the Transplant Patient....Pages 341-353
Evidence-Based Revised View of the Pathophysiology of Preeclampsia....Pages 355-374
Hypertension in Pregnancy....Pages 375-393
Chronic Hypertension and Pregnancy....Pages 395-407
Superimposed Preeclampsia....Pages 409-417
Hypertension Is a Risk Factor for Several Types of Heart Disease: Review of Prospective Studies....Pages 419-426
The Relationship Between Aortic Root Size and Hypertension: An Unsolved Conundrum....Pages 427-445
Treating Hypertension to Prevent Cognitive Decline and Dementia: Re-Opening the Debate....Pages 447-473
Measurement of Arterial Stiffness: A Novel Tool of Risk Stratification in Hypertension....Pages 475-488
Primordial Prevention of Cardiometabolic Risk in Childhood....Pages 489-496
Emotional Stress as a Risk for Hypertension in Sub-Saharan Africans: Are We Ignoring the Odds?....Pages 497-510
Endothelial Dysfunction and Hypertension....Pages 511-540
Cerebellar Adrenomedullinergic System. Role in Cardiovascular Regulation....Pages 541-560
Recent Advances in the Genetics of Hypertension....Pages 561-581
The Role of DNA Methylation in Hypertension....Pages 583-598
Metabolomics, Lipidomics and Pharmacometabolomics of Human Hypertension....Pages 599-613
Back Matter....Pages 615-631

✦ Subjects

Cardiology;Pathology;Pharmacology/Toxicology;Nephrology;Urology;Maternal and Child Health