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Essential Hypertension and its Causes: Neural and Non-Neural Mechanisms

Publication Year:
2007
Edition:
1st
Author:
Korner, Paul I.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN:
978-0-19-509483-1
Doody's Star Rating®:
Score:
89
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With an extremely broad reach, this book aims to give a balanced view of the causes of essential hypertension (EH), its neural, genetic, and environmental causes.

This new account of the pathogenesis of essential hypertension (EH) represents a detailed analysis of the main components of the circulatory control system. Topics covered in this work include the role of various transmitters in autonomic regulation; the place of baroreflexes in the intact organism; why exercise training lowers resting BP; obstructive sleep apnea; non-pharmacological and drug treatment of EH; the role of the kidney in EH and in different types of renal hypertension and the pathogenesis of the Japanese spontaneously hypertensive rat, which provides a valuable animal model for EH. The work suggests that physiological systems analysis in a complex disorder like EH is a valuable tool for using the great advances in molecular biology to best advantage.
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Platform:
OvidSP
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Product Type:
Book
Author:
Korner, Paul I.
ISBN:
978-0-19-509483-1
Specialty:
  • Cardiology
  • Internal Medicine
  • Neuroscience
Language:
English
Edition:
1st
Pages:
720
Publication Year:
2007
Doody's Star Rating®:
Score:
89

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