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- Written based on the new diagnostic paradigms
- Intended to help the average physician to better understand the reasons to act earlier and more vigorously to control blood pressure
- Highly selected literature, linking the better evidence available to the medical decisions in the daily practice
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Hypertension accounts for more than 50% of deaths from stroke and ischemic heart disease worldwide. New blood pressure (BP) diagnostic thresholds for hypertension were released, which were set at 130/80 mmHg. As a consequence, millions of individuals in the world will be diagnosed as hypertensive, recognizing that they are at greater risk of presenting a CV event. Prevention and control of high BP will become the main focus for reducing the burden of CV disease, requiring a changing of cultural beliefs in some way similar to what happened in the last century with smoking.
Strategies for prevention of the rising of BP with age, and the BP reduction in individuals already with high levels, are more complex than those related to smoking control. These strategies involve solid evidence to be implemented in populations. The extensive scientific literature dealing with hypertension and BP regulation is among the top dedicated to a single disease. The chapters and contents follow the clinical reasoning pathways. The characterization of the risks of high blood pressure is presented in the first chapter, discussing the evidence that led to changes in diagnostic thresholds and to the recommendations for maintaining BP within these limits in populations. Reasons for BP rising with age will follow, identifying the causes that must be fought to preventing the incidence of hypertension. Diagnosis of hypertension deserves a special chapter. The final chapter presents the fundamentals to select drug and non-drug therapies indicated in the prevention and controlling of high blood pressure.
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Book Title: Essentials of Hypertension
Book Subtitle: The 120/80 paradigm
Authors: Flávio Danni Fuchs
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63272-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63271-1Published: 12 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87514-9Published: 31 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63272-8Published: 20 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 151
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cardiology, Nephrology, Neurology, Primary Care Medicine