Essential hypertension as adaptation to excess gravitational stress
Subtitle: integrating concept for complete prevention
By: Stanislav Pekarsky.
Publisher: Nova Science Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Hauppauge, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Hypertension.; Gravity -- Physiological effect.; Hypertension -- etiology.; Adaptation, Physiological.; Cardiovascular Physiology.; Gravitation.; Life Style.; Posture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Currently available antihypertensive treatment cannot solve the hypertension problem; title: Quadrupedal humans or why cardiovascular researchers have never had a chance to find a primary cause of essential hypertension; title: Space flight studies - discovering stressful effect of earth's gravitation on the human cardiovascular system; title: Basics of physical theory of gravitation; title: Cardiovascular system in gravitational field; title: Antigravitational response of the cardiovascular system; title: Concept of gravitational stress - application of gravitational physics to the human cardiovascular physiology; title: Giraffe - an adequate model of human cardiovascular system; hypertension as an advanced stage of antigravitational response; title: Natural mechanism of defense against gravitational stress; title: Prolonged sitting - the best way to increase gravitational stress in the cardiovascular system; title: Essential hypertension as an adaptation of the cardiovascular system to the "sitting" lifestyle; title: Natural course of essential hypertension or development of structural adaptation to excessive gravitational stress; title: Gravitation as a reason for seasonal variations of blood pressure level; title: Inheritance of hypertension; title: Meaning of systolic and diastolic arterial pressure from the standpoint of essential hypertension as advanced compensatory response to increased gravitational stress, explanation of age dependent decrease of diastolic pressure; title: Etiological treatment and prevention of essential hypertension as a consequence of excessive gravitational stress; title: Integrating existing concepts.