BookMatthew R. Weir, Edgar V. Lerma, editors.
Summary: The treatment of hypertension has become the most important intervention in the management of all forms of chronic kidney disease. Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension is a current, concise, and practical guide to the identification, treatment and management of hypertension in patients with chronic kidney disease. In depth chapters discuss many relevant clinical questions and the future of treatment through medications and or novel new devices.
Contents:
Changes in Guideline Trends and Applications in Practice: JNC 2013 and the future
Central BP monitoring, Home BP Monitoring, Ambulatory BP Monitoring in CKD
Resistant hypertension in patients with chronic kidney disease
Neurogenic Factors In Hypertension Associated With Chronic Kidney Disease
Novel Molecules
Dual Inhibitors: RAAS Blockers/Combination Therapies: What Do All These Trials Mean?
Renal Sympathetic Denervation
Novel baroreceptor activation therapy
Blood Pressure Vaccines
Masked Hypertension: Does it Lead to CVD or CKD?
White Coat Hypertension- Do We Really Understand It Now?
Uric Acid And Hypertension
Is There Really A Link?.- Preeclampsia: Angiogenic factors, blood pressure, and the kidney
Inflammation and Hypertension
Genome-Wide Association Studies (Gwas) Of Blood Pressure In Different Populations
Endocrine Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease
Hypertension in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease
Obesity/OSA/Metabolic syndrome in pts with CKD and hypertension-the missing link.