Table of Contents

1. Prevention, detection and Clinical Presentations of Hypertension; 2. Epidemiology of Hypertensive Cardiovascular Risk; 3. Evaluation and Measurement of Blood Pressure; 4. Principles of Hypertension Treatment: How Low Should You Go?; 5. Nonpharmacological Therapy of Hypertension; 6. Pharmacology of Antihypertensive Drugs; 7. Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease: Implications of Therapy; 8. Hypertension and Kidney disease; 9. Future Considerations for Antihypertensive medications: Lessons from outcome trials; 10. Secondary Hypertension; 11. Controversies and Safety of Antihypertensive medications; 12. Hypertensive Urgencies and Emergencies: Considerations for Treatment; 13. Hypertension in the Elderly; 14. Hypertension in Pregnancy.

About the Author

Matthew R weir is the Professor and Director of the Division of Nephropology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.