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: ContentsDirect for Books from Elsevier Science : =============================================== : Series: Handbook of Hypertension : Title: Epidemiology of Hypertension : Edited by:C.J. Bulpitt, Imperial College School of Medicine, Division of : Medicine, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, London W12 0NN, : UK; Tel: (+44)1813833958, Fax: (+44)1817430798; E-mail: : <EMAIL>cbulpitt@rpms.ac.uk</EMAIL> : Prices: 0-444-82779-X Hardbound NLG 525.00 Publication: April 2000 : 0-444-82779-X Hardbound USD 275.00 Publication: April 2000 : Url: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/isbn/0-444-82779-X : Imprint: ELSEVIER : Contents: : Due to space limitation only a selection of the published papers are : listed. : Foreword. Introduction. : I. Hypertension - a problem for the population. : Hypertension as a cardiovascular risk factor. Ethnic and geographic : differences in blood pressure. : II. Measurement of blood pressure. : Classic sphygmomanometry: a fin de siecle appraisal. Diagnostic : thresholds for self-recorded blood pressure measurements. : III. Blood pressure and the environment. : Interuterine influences on blood pressure. Blood pressure and : migration. Migration, acculturation and hypertension. : IV. Hypertension and nutrition. : Blood pressure and alcohol consumption. Blood pressure, calcium and : water hardness. : V. Secondary hypertension and mechanisms of blood pressure elevation. : Epidemiology of renin-angiotensin system in hypertension. The role of : obstructive sleep apnea and habitual snoring in the causation of : essential hypertension. : VI. Genetics and clustering of risk factors. : Genes, blood pressure and pressor systems. Clustering of risk : factors, hypertension, diabetes and the fibrinolytic system. : VII. Blood pressure, the pill and pregnancy. : Post-menopausal hormone replacement therapy and the oral : contraceptive pill. Hypertension in pregnancy. : VIII. Community control of hypertension - rational. : Treatment of hypertension: the major trials. The prognosis of : essential hypertension.Multiple risk factor control. Smoking, : hyperlipidaemia and hypertension . : IX. Community control of hypertension in difference countries. : Community control of hypertension in the United States. Community : control of hypertension in Belgium. Control of cardiovascular risk in : Israel. : X. Problem in community control. : The disadvantages of being labelled hypertensive. Clinical decisions : and promotion of agents for the treatment of high blood pressure.