Blood pressure monitoring in cardiovascular medicine and therapeutics / edited by William B. White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, William B., 1953-

Series:

Contemporary cardiology (Totowa, N.J.)

Contemporary cardiology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hypertension--diagnosis.

Blood Pressure--physiology.

Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory.

Cardiovascular Diseases--physiopathology.

Chronobiology.

Circadian Rhythm--physiology.

Heart Rate.

Hypertension--therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Hypertension--diagnosis.

Blood Pressure--physiology.

Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory.

Cardiovascular Diseases--physiopathology.

Chronobiology.

Circadian Rhythm--physiology.

Heart Rate.

Hypertension--therapy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, 2001.

Contents:

Part I Techniques for Out-of-Office Blood Pressure Monitoring

1 Self-Monitoring of Blood Pressure / Thomas G. Pickering, MD, DPHIL 3

2 Evaluation of Journals, Diaries, and Indexes of Worksite and Environmental Stress / Gary D. James, PHD 29

3 Electronic Activity Recording in Cardiovascular Disease / George A. Mansoor, MD, MRCP 45

4 Ambulatory Monitoring of the Blood Pressure: Devices, Analysis, and Clinical Utility / Yusra Anis Anwar, MD, William B. White, MD 57

Part II Concepts in the Circadian Variation of Cardiovascular Disease

5 Circadian Rhythm and Environmental Determinants of Blood Pressure Regulation in Normal and Hypertensive Conditions / Francesco Portaluppi, MD, Michael H. Smolensky, PHD 79

6 Circadian Variation of the Blood Pressure in the Population at Large / Hilde Celis, MD, Jan A. Staessen, MD, PHD 139

7 Importance of Heart Rate in Determining Cardiovascular Risk / Paolo Palatini, MD 159

8 Sodium, Potassium, the Sympathetic Nervous System, and the Renin-Angiotensin System: Impact on the Circadian Variability in Blood Pressure / Domenic A. Sica, MD, Dawn K. Wilson, PHD 171

9 Prognostic Value of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring / Paolo Verdecchia, MD, Giuseppe Schillaci, MD 191

10 Circadian Rhythm of Myocardial Infarction and Sudden Cardiac Death / Craig A. Chasen, MD, James E. Muller, MD 219

11 Seasonal, Weekly, and Circadian Variability of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke / Tudor D. Vagaonescu, MD, PHD, Robert A. Phillips, MD, PHD, FACC, Stanley Tuhrim, MD 243

Part III Twenty-Four-Hour Blood Pressure Monitoring and Therapy

12 Cardiovascular Chronobiology and Chronopharmacology: Importance of Timing of Dosing / Bjorn Lemmer, MD 255

13 Advances in Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring for the Evaluation of Antihypertensive Therapy in Research and Practice / William B. White, MD 273.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0896038408

OCLC:

43985368