White Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-1-59259-004-9
Verlag: Humana Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 309 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Contemporary Cardiology

Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics provides information that will be especially useful to all who care for hyperten sive patients. The various chapters provide a full account of the mounting sci entific evidence that blood pressure recordings need to be obtained for proper diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy for these patients. The contributors are each directly involved in clinical studies ofhome and ambulatory blood pressure moni toring, as well as of the relationship of circadian variations in heart rate and blood pressure to cardiovascular events. As a longtime observer of the multiple facets of clinical hypertension, I have been greatly impressed with the rapid advances in this area over the last two decades. Out-of-office blood pressure monitoring has grown from a curi osity to a necessity. In order to improve the currently inadequate control of hypertension throughout the world, such monitoring should become routine in the diagnosis and treatment of every patient. The evidence for the role of out-of-office monitoring that is so well described in Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics should serve as a stimulus for the more widespread adoption of the procedure. Once this is understood, the constraints on the broader clinical use of ambulatory monitoring that now exist in the United States will be lifted as the value of such information becomes more generally recognized. In the meantime, self-recorded home measurements should be more widely utilized.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, William B.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I Techniques for Out-of-Office Blood Pressure Monitoring.- 1 Self-Monitoring of Blood Pressure.- 2 Evaluation of Journals, Diaries, and Indexes of Worksite and Environmental Stress.- 3 Electronic Activity Recording in Cardiovascular Disease.- 4 Ambulatory Monitoring of the Blood Pressure: Devices, Analysis, and Clinical Utility.- II Concepts in the Circadian Variation of Cardiovascular Disease.- 5 Circadian Rhythm and Environmental Determinants of Blood Pressure Regulation in Normal and Hypertensive Conditions.- 6 Circadian Variation of the Blood Pressure in the Population at Large.- 7 Importance of Heart Rate in Determining Cardiovascular Risk.- 8 Sodium, Potassium, the Sympathetic Nervous System, and the Renin—Angiotensin System: Impact on the Circadian Variability in Blood Pressure.- 9 Prognostic Value of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring.- 10 Circadian Rhythm of Myocardial Infarction and Sudden Cardiac Death.- 11 Seasonal, Weekly, and Circadian Variability of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke.- III Twenty-Four-Hour Blood Pressure Monitoring and Therapy.- 12 Cardiovascular Chronobiology and Chronopharmacology: Importance of Timing of Dosing.- 13 Advances in Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring for the Evaluation of Antihypertensive Therapy in Research and Practice.