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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.