Main description:

This comprehensive pocketbook provides a foundation in best-practice guidance screening, assessing, treating, and monitoring patients with hypertension, with reference to up-to-date clinical guidelines. Prevention strategies and recent drug developments are also highlighted, including the most exciting and relevant treatment advances in the past 5 years. Hypertension is one of the most common medical conditions, with an estimated one billion people worldwide affected. Because hypertension affects so many and spans across all ages, ethnicities, and socioeconomic classes, nearly all clinicians encounter patients with hypertension on regular basis. The Clinician's Manual: Treating Hypertension, 4th edition provides a foundation in best-practice guidance screening, assessing, treating, and monitoring patients with hypertension, with reference to up-to-date clinical guidelines. Prevention strategies and recent drug developments are also highlighted, including the most exciting and relevant treatment advances in the past 5 years.

Contents:

Definition of hypertension.- The J curve.- Drug therapy or lifestyle modification?.- First-line antihypertensive therapy: the simplistic viewpoint.- Hypertension as a gateway to cardiovascular risk modification.- To twofer or not to twofer.- When initial therapy is insufficient - To up titrate, to substitute, or to combine?.- How aggressively should blood pressure be lowered?.- Evidence-based versus eminence-based therapy.- Combination therapy.- Comorbid conditions.- Therapeutic challenges.- Fashions and fads.