Hypertension

Townsend (professor of medicine specializing in hypertension, U. of Pennsylvania) presents 15 papers published in the last year that summarize current research on hypertension and its relationship to other conditions. Specific topics include: implications of small differences in blood pressure in high-risk hypertension patients, hypertension and diabetes, the role of proteinuria in management, epidemiology and ethnicity as relate to the disease, pregnancy and hypertension, and renovascular disease and secondary hypertension. This book is published by Clinical Publishing, UK, an imprint of Atlas Medical Publishing Ltd. It is distributed in the US by BookMasters.