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Hypertension in the Elderly

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  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Gastone Leonetti

    1. Istituto Scientifico, Ospedale San Luca, Milan, Italy

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  2. Cesare Cuspidi

    1. Centro di Fisiologia Clinica e Ipertensione, Ospedale Maggiore, Milan, Italy

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Part of the book series: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine (DICM, volume 157)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Changes in the cardiovascular system with aging

    • Alberto U. Ferrari
    Pages 1-12

  3. Blood pressure measurement in the elderly with special reference to ambulatory blood pressure measurement

    • Eoin O’Brien, Kevin O’Malley
    Pages 13-25

  4. Efficacy and tolerability of different antihypertensive agents with respect to age

    • Gastone Leonetti, Cesare Cuspidi
    Pages 27-50

  5. Treatment of hypertension and concomitant disease in the elderly

    • Arie T. J. Lavrijssen, Peter W. De Leeuw
    Pages 51-69

  6. Therapeutic trials in elderly hypertensives: meta-analysis and implications for daily practice

    • R. Van Hoof, L. Thijs, J. Staessen, R. Fagard, H. Celis, W. Birkenhäger et al.
    Pages 71-89

  7. Lessons from STOP-Hypertension

    • Tord Ekbom, Lars H. Lindholm, Lennart Hansson, Björn Dahlöf, Erland Linjer, Bengt Scherstén et al.
    Pages 91-101

  8. Medical Research Council trial of treatment of hypertension in older adults: main results and treatment implications

    • James B. Connelly
    Pages 103-121

  9. The systolic hypertension in the elderly program

    • H. Mitchell Perry Jr., Kenneth G. Berge, M. Donald Blaufox, Barry R. Davis, Richard H. Grimm, Robert McDonald et al.
    Pages 123-137

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 139-149
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About this book

As the life expectancy of patients with arterial hypertension increases, hypertension in the elderly is becoming a relevant medical and social problem. Indeed, epidemiological trials have shown that the cardiovascular risk in elderly hypertensives is significantly higher than in normotensive subjects of comparable age. However, many characteristics of hypertension in the elderly, such as the haemodynamic pattern, do differ greatly from those of younger hypertensives and therefore the results obtained in younger patients cannot be extrapolated to older hypertensives.
In this book, experts on hypertension have examined different aspects of hypertension in the elderly: from the changes in the cardiovascular system associated with ageing, to the role of ambulatory blood pressure measurement in the diagnosis of hypertension and the results of the recent clinical trials into the efficacy and tolerability of antihypertensive drugs.
This book covers all the clinical aspects of hypertension in the elderly in such a way that it will become a valuable tool for medical students, general practitioners and specialists in hypertension alike.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Istituto Scientifico, Ospedale San Luca, Milan, Italy

    Gastone Leonetti

  • Centro di Fisiologia Clinica e Ipertensione, Ospedale Maggiore, Milan, Italy

    Cesare Cuspidi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Hypertension in the Elderly

  • Editors: Gastone Leonetti, Cesare Cuspidi

  • Series Title: Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1820-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1994

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-2852-0Published: 31 October 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-4408-2Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-1820-2Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0166-9842

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 150

  • Topics: Cardiology

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