Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics

In this newly updated second edition of Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics, William B. White, MD, and a panel of highly distinguished clinicians give a critical review of every aspect of the evaluation of high blood pressure. This includes home and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, the relationship between whole-day blood pressure and the cardiovascular disease process, and the effects of antihypertensive therapies on these blood pressure parameters. World-class contributors describe the significant advances in our understanding of the circadian pathophysiology of cardiovascular disorders and demonstrate that ambulatory blood pressure values are independent predictors of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. This book provides a comprehensive up-to-date resource of this dynamic field in hypertension and vascular disease.

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Out-of-Office Blood Pressure Monitoring.- Self-Monitoring of Blood Pressure.- Evaluation of Journals, Diaries, and Indexes of Work-Site and Environmental Stress.- Electronic Activity Recording in Cardiovascular Disease.- Ambulatory Monitoring of Blood Pressure.- Validation and Reliability of Blood Pressure Monitors.- Circadian Variation of Cardiovascular Disease.- Circadian Rhythmic and Environmental Determinants of 24-Hour Blood Pressure Regulation in Normal and Hypertensive Conditions.- Circadian Variation of Blood Pressure in the Population at Large.- Importance of Heart Rate in Determining Cardiovascular Risk.- Sodium, Potassium, the Sympathetic Nervous System, and the Renin-Angiotensin System.- Prognostic Value of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring.- Day/Night Pattern of Myocardial Infarction and Sudden Cardiac Death.- Seasonal, Weekly, and Circadian Variability of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke.- Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Special Populations.- Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Older Patients.- Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents.- Ambulatory Blood Pressure During Pregnancy.- Ambulatory Blood Pressure in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease.- Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring and Therapy.- Chronobiology and Chronopharmacology of Hypertension.- Advances in Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring for the Evaluation of Antihypertensive Therapy.- Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Clinical Practice.