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Your Questions Answered
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By
W. Stephen Waring, BMedSci, MB, FRCP(UK), PhD, Consultant Physician, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and Honorary Senior Lecturer, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Ian Wilkinson, BM, BCh, MA, MRCP, Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology, The University of Cambridge, and Honorary Consultant Physician, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
John Cockcroft, BSc(Hons), MB, ChB, FRCP, Professor, The University of Wales College of Medicine, and Honorary Consultant in Cardiology, Wales Heart Research Institute, Cardiff, UK
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Your Questions Answered,
Description
This book, written in the popular Q and A format of the Your Questions Answered series will provide sufficient information for
a primary care doctor to be able to understand and treat patients who have hypertension.
Audience
This book is designed for general practitioners and other health practitioners providing front line care to the hypertensive patient. The information is of worldwide relevance.
Contents
What is hypertension?. Aetiology of primary hypertension. Clinical assessment in hypertension. Guidelines. Risk assessment. Lifestyle
intervention. Drug treatment for primary hypertension. Targets, multiple risk intervention and compliance. Secondary hypertension. Type
2 diabetes and hypertension. Hypertension in the elderly. Hypertension in women. Other issues. Appendix: Useful addresses and web sites.
References. Further reading. Index of patient questions. Index.
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Paperback, 224 pages, publication date: OCT-2002
ISBN-13: 978-0-443-07255-0
ISBN-10: 0-443-07255-8
Imprint: CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
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Last update: 30 Oct 2009
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