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Hypertension in High Risk African Americans

Current Concepts, Evidence-based Therapeutics and Future Considerations

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Editors:
  1. Keith C. Ferdinand

    1. Cardiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA

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  • Comprehensive up-to-date resource
  • Emerging devices are discussed
  • Written by wide range of expert authors
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Clinical Hypertension and Vascular Diseases (CHVD)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Overview

    • Samar A. Nasser
    Pages 1-19

  3. Epidemiology Awareness, Prevalence, and Control: Newest Findings on Hypertension in Blacks

    • Daniel T. Lackland, Brent M. Egan
    Pages 21-33

  4. Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes to Decrease Unhealthy Eating Patterns and Improve Blood Pressure in African Americans

    • Margaret Scisney-Matlock, Elizabeth Brough, Olubunmi Daramola, Markia Jones, Lenette Jones, Susan Holmes
    Pages 35-58

  5. Community Programs for Hypertension: A Means of Identification and Intervention in the Highest-Risk Population

    • Joseph E. Ravenell, Gbenga Ogedegbe
    Pages 59-70

  6. Stroke and Hypertension in High-Risk African Americans

    • Virginia J. Howard, Megan E. Ruiter Petrov, Tanya Dudenbostel, Stephen P. Glasser
    Pages 71-93

  7. Manifestations of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Coronary Heart Disease: The Contribution of Hypertension and the Paradox in Blacks

    • Tochi M. Okwuosa, Kim A. Williams
    Pages 95-110

  8. Heart Failure Morbidity, Mortality, and Its Relationship to Hypertension

    • Elizabeth O. Ofili, Rigobert Lapu Bula, Adesoji Oderinde, Adefisayo Oduwole
    Pages 111-122

  9. Hypertension and Atrial Fibrillation in African Americans

    • Elsayed Z. Soliman, Ronald J. Prineas
    Pages 123-135

  10. Cardiorenal Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes in African Americans: Adding to the Risk of Hypertension

    • Ankur Jindal, Adam Whaley-Connell, James R. Sowers
    Pages 137-150

  11. Central Aortic Pressure, Arterial Compliance: Emerging Tools to Identify and Guide Therapy for High-Risk African American Patients

    • Yonghong Huan, Debbie L. Cohen, Raymond R. Townsend
    Pages 151-161

  12. Renal Denervation Therapy and Baroreceptor Activation Therapy: Emerging Tools for Treating Resistant Hypertension

    • Peter D. Hart, Priyanka Gosain, George Bakris
    Pages 163-183

  13. Practical Approaches to Promote Adherence and Improve Blood Pressure Control in Black Patients

    • Angela L. Brown, David Kountz
    Pages 185-198

  14. Integration of a Team Approach to Hypertension Treatment

    • Kevin B. Sneed
    Pages 199-212

  15. Practical Pearls in the Treatment of Hypertension in Blacks

    • Elijah Saunders, Jude Ediae
    Pages 213-232

  16. Hypertension in African Americans

    • John M. Flack, Brian A. Ference, Phillip Levy
    Pages 233-249

  17. New Guideline Recommendations on Hypertension: Preventing CVD and Renal Disease with Applications to Blacks

    • Gabriel Thornton, Jackson T. Wright Jr.
    Pages 251-270

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 271-277
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About this book

This volume discusses the many ways to prevent, identify and control hypertension in African Americans, a common and potent risk factor for virtually all forms of cardiovascular-renal diseases. Comprehensive chapters address modifiable risk factors, such as lifestyle changes, especially sodium restriction, and appropriate combination pharmacotherapy. Emerging devices and evidence-based approaches that may also enhance effective blood pressure control and decrease the disparate cardiovascular disease risks, including MI, stroke, HF, and cardiorenal metabolic syndrome and diabetes are also discussed in detail. 

Written by a wide-range of experts in the field, Hypertension in High Risk African Americans: Current Concepts, Evidence-based Therapeutics and Future Considerations is a valuable resource for clinicians, researchers, health administrators and public health policy leaders to better understand the best practices and unique aspects of risk assessment and treatment of hypertension and co-morbid conditions in African Americans.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Cardiology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA

    Keith C. Ferdinand

About the editor

Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA, FASH, FNLA
Professor, Tulane University School of Medicine, Tulane Heart & Vascular Institute, New Orleans, LA, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hypertension in High Risk African Americans

  • Book Subtitle: Current Concepts, Evidence-based Therapeutics and Future Considerations

  • Editors: Keith C. Ferdinand

  • Series Title: Clinical Hypertension and Vascular Diseases

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2010-5

  • Publisher: Humana New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-2009-9Published: 03 January 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5458-2Published: 24 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-2010-5Published: 02 January 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 277

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cardiology, Diabetes, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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