Hypertension in the elderly
By: edited by Michael L. Prisant.
Contributors: Prisant, Michael L.
Series: Clinical hypertension and vascular diseases
Publisher: Humana Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 531
Subjects: Hypertension in old age.; Hypertension -- drug therapy -- Aged.; Hypertension -- etiology -- Aged.; Antihypertensive Agents -- therapeutic use -- Aged.; Clinical Trials -- Aged.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The importance of hypertension in the geriatric population / Ray W. Gifford and L. Michael Prisant; value: Age-related changes in the cardiovascular system / R. Clinton Webb and Edward W. Inscho; value: Aging, arterial stiffness, and systolic hypertension / Joseph L. Izzo; value: Pharmacological and pharmacodynamic alterations in the elderly: application to cardiovascular therapies / Domenic A. Sica; value: Epidemiology of hypertension in the older patient / William B. Kannel and Peter W. F. Wilson; value: Nonpharmacological trials in the older patient / L. Michael Prisant and Dean U. Harrell; value: Clinical trials of hypertension in older patient / L. Michael Prisant; value: Blood pressure measurement in the older patients with hypertension / Jose Ramiro Arias-Vera and William B. White; value: Clinical evaluation of the elderly hypertensive / L. Michael Prisant and Thomas W. Jackson; value: Hypertension in the elderly: endocrine causes of secondary hypertension / Carlos M. Isales; value: Diagnosis and management of hypertensive renal and renovascular disease in the elderly / Wanpen Vongpatanasin and Ronald G. Victor; value: Heart failure in the older hypertensive patient / L. Michael Prisant ... [et al.]; value: Management of ischemic heart disease in the older hypertensive patient: evaluation and management / Jan Laws Houghton; value: Cerebrovascular disease in the elderly hypertensive / Fenwick T. Nichols, III; value: Diuretics and beta-adrenergic blockers in the management of hypertension in the elderly / William C. Cushman; value: Assessment of the role ace inhibitors in the elderly / Domenic A. Sica; value: Use of angiotensin receptor blockers in the elderly / L. Michael Prisant; value: Clinical trials with calcium antagonists in older patients with hypertension / William B. White and Sumeska Thavarajah; value: Alpha-adrenoceptor blockers for management of hypertension in the elderly / James L. Pool; value: Combination drug therapy in the elderly / L. Michael Prisant and Laura Lyngby Mulloy; value: Attitudes regarding hypertension among older african-american adults / Wallace R. Johnson and Elijah Saunders; value: Treatment of hypertension in the elderly diabetic patient / James R. Sowers and L. Michael Prisant; value: Management of hypertension in older patients with arthritis / Sumeska Thavarajah and William B. White; value: The clinician's role in improving therapeutic adherence and blood pressure control in older hypertensive patients / Brent M. Egan and Eni C. Okonofua.