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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.
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
| Preface to the fourth edition | ||
| Abbreviations | ||
| 1 | Hypertension and cardiovascular risk | 1 |
| 2 | Benefits of blood pressure reduction | 7 |
| 3 | Epidemiology of hypertension | 12 |
| 4 | The pathophysiology of hypertension | 17 |
| 5 | Blood pressure measurement | |
| Pt. I | Sphygmomanometry: factors common to all techniques | 22 |
| Pt. II | Conventional sphygmomanometry: technique of auscultatory blood pressure measurement | 29 |
| Pt. III | Automated sphygmomanometry: ambulatory blood pressure measurement | 36 |
| Pt. IV | Automated sphygmomanometry: self blood pressure measurement | 43 |
| 6 | Patient assessment I: clinical | 49 |
| 7 | Patient assessment II: investigations | 53 |
| 8 | Treatment of uncomplicated hypertension: non-pharmacological treatment | 59 |
| 9 | Treatment of uncomplicated hypertension: pharmacological treatment | 62 |
| 10 | Hypertension in special cases | 73 |
| 11 | Diabetes and hypertension | 84 |
| 12 | Hypertension in pregnancy | 88 |
| 13 | Hypertension in primary care | 94 |
| App. A | Coronary risk prediction chart | 98 |
| Index | 101 |
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