ABC of Hypertension
5th Edition
Published on 8. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-4051-3061-5 (ISBN)
Description
Hypertension is a condition which affects millions of people worldwide and its treatment greatly reduces the risk of strokes and heart attacks. This fully revised and updated edition of the ABC of Hypertension is an established guide providing all the non-specialist needs to know about the measurement of blood pressure and the investigation and management of hypertensive patients. This new edition provides comprehensively updated and revised information on how and whom to treat. The ABC of Hypertension will prove invaluable to general practitioners who may be screening large numbers of patients for hypertension, as well as nurse practitioners, midwives and other healthcare professionals.
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Series
Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
124
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 211 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-3061-5 (9781405130615)
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Schweitzer Classification
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New editions
D. Gareth Beevers | Gregory Y. H. Lip | Eoin T. O'Brien
ABC of Hypertension
Book
11/2014
Wiley
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Persons
Gareth Beevers, University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham Gregory Lip, University Department of Medicine, City Hospital, Birmingham Eoin O'Brien, Blood Pressure Unit, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
Content
1 Prevalence and causes (G Y H Lip, D G Beevers). 2 Hypertension and vascular risk (G Y H Lip, D G Beevers). 3 Pathophysiology of hypertension (G Y H Lip, D G Beevers). 4 Measurement of blood pressure. Part I: Apects of measurement of blood pressure common to technique and patient. Part II: Conventional sphygmomanometry. Part III: Ambulatory blood pressure measurement. Part IV: Self-measurement of blood pressure (Eoin O'Brien). 5 Screening and management in primary care (G Y H Lip, D G Beevers). 6 Clinical assessment of patients with hypertension (G Y H Lip, D G Beevers). 7 Investigation in patients with hypertension (G Y H Lip, D G Beevers). 8 Non-pharmacological treatment of hypertension (G Y H Lip, D G Beevers). 9 Pharmacological treatment of hypertension (G Y H Lip, D G Beevers). 10 Hypertension in patients with cardiovascular disease (G Y H Lip, D G Beevers). 11 Special groups-diabetes, renal disease, and connective tissue disease (G Y H Lip, D G Beevers). 12 Ethnicity and age (G Y H Lip, D G Beevers). 13 Pregnancy and oral contraceptives (G Y H Lip, D G Beevers). Appendix. Index.