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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810711303321

Autore

Kario Kazuomi

Titolo

Essential manual of 24 hour blood pressure management : from morning to nocturnal hypertension / / Kazuomi Kario

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : John Wiley & Sons Inc., , 2015

ISBN

1-119-08728-7

1-119-08726-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Disciplina

616.1/32061

Soggetti

Hypertension

Hypertension - Treatment

Blood pressure - Regulation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

First, focussing on "morning hypertension" ? -- Morning surge in blood pressure -- Nocturnal hypertension -- What is SHATS, systemic hemodynamic atherothrombotic syndrome ? -- Home BP variability -- Development of IT-based new home BP variability monitoring system -- Home blood pressure monitoring-guided morning hypertension control -- BP lowering characteristics of antihypertensive drug -- Home and ambulatory BP profile-based combination strategy -- Management of resistant hypertension -- Era of renal denervation -- Recent evidence of controlling morning hypertension: HONEST Study.

Sommario/riassunto

It is well known that cardiovascular events occur more frequently in the morning as blood pressure (BP) levels have been shown to increase during the period from night to early morning. In recent years, clinical research using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) or home BP monitoring has clarified that morning BP and BP surge are more closely related to the cardiovascular risk than clinical BP.  This practical manual from field leading expert, Dr. Kazuomi Kario, reviews recent evidence on morning and nocturnal hypertension and the IT technologies physicians can use to support patients