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Hypertension

A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease

  • 4th Edition - August 29, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: George L. Bakris, Matthew Sorrentino, Luke J. Laffin
  • Language: English

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Cardiology**Part of the renowned Braunwald family of references, Hypertension: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease p… Read more

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**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Cardiology**

Part of the renowned Braunwald family of references, Hypertension: A Companion to Braunwald’s Heart Disease provides today’s clinicians with clear, authoritative guidance on every aspect of managing and treating patients who suffer from hypertensive disorders. An invaluable resource for cardiologists, endocrinologists, and nephrologists, this one-stop reference covers all the latest developments from basic science to clinical trials and guidelines related to the treatment of common to complex hypertension. Now fully updated from cover to cover, the 4th Edition offers unparalleled coverage of hypertension in an accessible and user-friendly manner.

Key features

  • Thoroughly covers new treatment guidelines related to recent research and the latest physiologic understanding for a wide range of patients with hypertension and related co-morbidities
  • Includes new chapters on Hypertension in Women, Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists, Exercise and Hypertension, and Telemedicine/Digital Health
  • Contains new or expanded content on epidemiology, pathophysiology, immunology, clinical findings, laboratory testing, invasive and non-invasive testing, risk stratification, clinical decision-making, prognosis, and management
  • Provides new chapter summaries and a new focus on clinical and actionable content using a streamlined, narrative format
  • Covers behavior management and prevention as an integral part of hypertensive and pre-hypertensive treatment plans
  • Highlights combination drug therapies and management of chronic complications of hypertension
  • Offers expert guidance from worldwide experts in cardiology, endocrinology, and nephrology, and integrates the most recent guidelines from leading organizations around the world
  • An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Readership

Cardiologists: general and subspecialty; internal medicine residents; cardiology, endocrinology, and nephrology fellows

Table of contents

SECTION I: EPIDEMIOLOGY AND PREVENTIVE STRATEGIES

1. General Population and Global Cardiovascular Risk Prediction

2. Diet and Hypertension

3. Exercise and Hypertension

4. Hypertension in Women

SECTION II: PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

5. Pathophysiology of Hypertension

6. Genetics of Hypertension

7. Inflammation and Immunity in Hypertension

SECTION III: DIAGNOSIS AND EVALUATION

8. The Environment and High Blood Pressure

9. Office Blood Pressure Measurement

10. Home Monitoring of Blood Pressure

11. Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Clinical Hypertension Management

12. White Coat and Masked Hypertension

13. Renovascular Hypertension and ISchemic Neuropathy

14. Secondary Hypertension: Primary Hyperaldosteronism and Mineralocorticoid Excess States

15. Secondary Hypertension: Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma

16. Sleep Disruption and Blood Pressure

SECTION IV: RISK STRATIFICATION

17. The Natural History of Untreated Hypertension

18. Isolated Systolic Hypertension

19. Assessment of Hypertension-Mediated Organ Damage

SECTION V: ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY

20. Diuretics Therapy

21. Calcium Channel Blockers

22. Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone System Blockers

23. Aldosterone and Hypertension

24. ß-Blockers, Central Sympathetic Agents,and Direct Vasodilators

25. Peripheral Alpha Blockers

26. Initial Combination Therapies

27. Devices Therapies for Hypertension

28. The Treatment of Hypertension With Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, and Lifestyle

SECTION VI: HYPERTENSION MANAGEMENT APPROACHES

29. Approach to Difficult to Manage Primary Hypertension

30. Team-Based Care for Hypertension Management

31. Medication Adherence: Focus on Improvement

32. Digital Health and Telemedicine for Hypertension

SECTION VII HYPERTENSION MANAGEMENT WITH COMORBIDITIES

33. Ischemic Heart Disease

34. Heart Failure

35. Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease Including Dialysis

36. Transplant Hypertension

37. Obesity and Hypertension: Pathophysiology and Treatment

38. Cerebrovascular Disease

39. Diabetes Mellitus: Management of Hypertension in Diabetes

40. Onco-Hypertension: Anticancer Therapy-Associated Hypertension

41. Autonomic Dysfunction and Orthostatic Hypotension

42. Dyslipidemia

43. Aorta and Peripheral Arterial Disease in Hypertension

SECTION VIII SPECIAL POPULATIONS

44. Hypertension in Pregnancy

45. Hypertension in Older People

46. Hypertension in African Americans

47. Resistant Hypertension

48. Hypertensive Emergencies and Urgencies

49. Hypertension in Children: Diagnosis and Treatment

Appendix Meta-Analyses of Blood Pressure Lowering Trials

Review quotes

"The book covers the basics, diagnostics, and treatment of hypertension. The accompanying website resource includes the electronic version of the text (eBook) with roughly the same information contained in the main text. The previous edition was published in 2017." ©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Jonathan Rzonzew, MD Candidate (Universidad San Francisco de Quito) Doody’s Score: 96 – 4 Stars!

Product details

  • Edition: 4
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 25, 2024
  • Language: English

About the editors

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George L. Bakris

George L Bakris, MD, is a nephrologist whose specialty is kidney function/disease and hypertension. He has led several large NIH-funded studies resulting in paradigm shifts in blood pressure treatment guidelines for patients with treatable and challenging hypertension. Dr Bakris is Professor of Medicine and Director of the American Heart Association Comprehensive Hypertension Center at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medicine, Director, Comprehensive Hypertension Center, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Matthew Sorrentino

Matthew J Sorrentino, MD, a cardiologist whose focus is preventive cardiology, is Professor of Medicine at the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence and Vice Chair of Clinical Operations for the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago. Both Drs Bakris and Sorrentino edited the current edition of Hypertension.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Medicine, Associate Director, Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Luke J. Laffin

Luke J Laffin, MD, is Co-Director of the Center for Blood Pressure Disorders in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr Laffin was a contributor on the current edition.
Affiliations and expertise
Co-Director, Center for Blood Pressure Disorders, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

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