ABC of Hypertension

D Gareth Beevers, Professor of Medicine, University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK.

Gregory YH Lip, Professor of Haemostasis Thrombosis and Vascular Sciences, University of Aston, Birmingham, UK.

Eoin O'Brien, Professor of Molecular Pharmacology, Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research, University College, Dublin, Ireland.

Preface vi

1 The prevalence and causes of hypertension 1
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2 Hypertension and vascular risk 10
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3 Pathophysiology of hypertension 20
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4 Blood pressure measurement, 27
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Part 1: Factors influencing all techniques of blood pressure measurement, 27

Part 2: Conventional blood pressure measurement, 33

Part 3: Ambulatory blood pressure measurement, 38

Part 4: Self-blood pressure measurement, 43

5 Screening and management in primary care, 47
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6 Clinical assessment of patients with hypertension, 53
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7 Investigation in patients with hypertension, 57
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8 Non-pharmacological treatment of hypertension, 63
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9 The pharmacological treatment of hypertension and endovascular renal sympathetic denervation, 68
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10 Hypertension in patients with cardiovascular disease, 81
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11 Special groups; diabetes mellitus, renal disease, renal artery stenosis and connective tissue diseases, 87
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12 Ethnicity, age and hypertension, 93
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13 Hypertension, pregnancy and the oral contraceptives, 98
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Index, 108

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