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Lifelong Management of Hypertension
H. Mitchell . Ed(S): Perry Jr.
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Paperback. Editor(s): Perry Jr., H. Mitchell. Series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine. Num Pages: 268 pages, biography. BIC Classification: MJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 438.
In the thirty years since the advent of efTective pharmacologic treatment for hypertension, the world ofthe hypertensive has been transformed beyond recog nition. The first change involved only malignant hypertensives with enough residual renal parenchyma to survive. Such a hypertensive could trade inevitable renal failure - unless an intracerebral bleed occurred first - for a rigid regimen which prevented his blood pressure from destroying him but which was asso ciated with nearly intolerable side effects. Over the next 20 years, increasing numbers of patients with hypertension of decreasing severity were treated with drugs that had fewer and fewer side effects. ... Read more
In the thirty years since the advent of efTective pharmacologic treatment for hypertension, the world ofthe hypertensive has been transformed beyond recog nition. The first change involved only malignant hypertensives with enough residual renal parenchyma to survive. Such a hypertensive could trade inevitable renal failure - unless an intracerebral bleed occurred first - for a rigid regimen which prevented his blood pressure from destroying him but which was asso ciated with nearly intolerable side effects. Over the next 20 years, increasing numbers of patients with hypertension of decreasing severity were treated with drugs that had fewer and fewer side effects. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Series
Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400967342
SKU
V9789400967342
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