Blood pressure monitoring in cardiovascular medicine and therapeutics /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by William B. White
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
2nd ed
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Oxford :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Blackwell [distributor],
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvi, 494 p. ;
Dimensions
26 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Clinical hypertension and vascular diseases
GENERAL NOTES
Text of Note
Previous ed.: 2001
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Self-monitoring of blood pressure -- Evaluation of journals, diaries, and indexes of work-site and environmental stress -- Ambulatory monitoring of blood pressure: devices, analysis, and clinical utility -- Validation and reliability of blood pressure monitors -- Circadian rhythmic and environmental determinants of 24-hour blood pressure regulation in normal and hypertensive conditions -- Circadian variation of blood pressure in the population at large -- Importance of heart rate in determining cardiovascular risk -- Sodium, potassium, the sympathetic nervous system, and the renin-angiotensin system: impact on the circadian variability in blood presure -- Prognostic value of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring -- Day/night pattern of myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death: interacting roles of the endogenous circadian system and behavioral triggers -- Seasonal, weekly and circadian variability of ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke -- Ambulatory blood pressure in older patients -- Ambulatory blood pressure in children and adolescents -- Ambulatory blood pressure during pregnancy - Ambultory blood pressure in patients with chronic kidney disease -- Chronobiology and chronopharmacology of hypertension: importance of timing of dosing -- Advances in ambulatory blood pressure monitoring for the evaluation of antihypertensive therapy -- Ambultory blood pressure monitoring in clinical practice