Title	Arterial Hypertension [electronic resource] : Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Therapy / edited by Julian Rosenthal
Imprint	New York, NY : Springer New York, 1982
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5657-1
Descript	XV, 529p. 209 illus. online resource

It has been a little more than half a century since serious, organized research on hyperยญ tension began. Public and even physician interest in the subject remained minimal until the early forties, and even then there were not more than a dozen "fulltime" investigators worldwide. The first organization devoted to communicating regularly the results of hyยญ pertension research was created in Cleveland in 1945; it became the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association in 1949. The early history of hypertension is not a story of progressive achievement. Richard Bright is given great credit, followed by Mahomed, Allbutt, Riva-Rocci, Bergman and Janeway, but it was not until Volhard, Fahr and Allen that some semblance of order emerged. They were followed by a younger, much more vigorous group of investigators who in fact initiated modern research in hypertension. Two more generations have folยญ lowed. In the course of some fifty years, we have seen emerge a magnificent body of evidence that has prescribed good treatment and contributed a considerable understanding of the many complex mechanisms involved in the hypertensions. Treatment is now actively proยญ moted by public health agencies, including the World Health Organization. This is anยญ other case of treatment preceding full understanding of the nature of the disease

1. An Overview of Current Concepts Regarding the Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology of Hypertension -- Pathogenesis of Hypertension -- 2. The Risk of Hypertension: Genesis and Detection -- 3. Behavioral Patterns As They Relate to Hypertension -- 4. Hypertension and Obesity -- 5. Hypertension and Arteriosclerosis -- 6. Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus -- 7. Role of the Central Nervous System in the Control of Arterial Blood Pressure and in the Pathogenesis of Arterial Hypertension -- 8. Endocrine Aspects of Hypertension -- 9. Pheochromocytoma -- 10. Hematologic Aspects of Arterial Hypertension -- 11. Hypertension and Hyperthyroidism -- 12. Influence of Calcium Balance and Rarer Ions in Hypertension -- 13. Kallikrein-Kinin and Prostglandin Systems in Hypertension -- 14. Hypertension and Oral Contraceptives -- 15. Renal Hypertension -- 16. Renovascular Hypertension -- 17. Urologic Aspects of Renal Hypertension -- 18. Central Hemodynamics and Cardiac Function in Hypertension -- 19. Essential Hypertension -- 20. Hypertension in Pregnancy -- 21. Hypertension in Childhood with Special Reference to Cardiovascular and Renal Causes -- Diagnosis of Hypertension -- 22. Measurement of Blood Pressure -- 23. Arterial Blood Pressureโ{128}{148}the Variable Parameter -- 24. Significance of Fundus Diagnosis in Arterial Hypertension -- 25. Basic Investigation of the Hypertensive Patient -- 26. Laboratory Diagnosis in Hypertension -- 27. Radiologic Methods of Diagnosis in Arterial Hypertension -- 28. Radionuclide Methods in the Diagnosis of Arterial Hypertensive Diseases -- Therapy of Hypertension -- 29. The Early Treatment of Mild Hypertension -- 30. Systolic Hypertension in the Elderly: A Therapeutic Problem -- 31. Drug Interactions in Antihypertensive Drug Therapy -- 32. Clinical Pharmacology of Antihypertensive Drug Therapy -- 33. Therapeutic Aspects of Hypertension -- 34. Resistant Hypertension -- 35. Hypertension in the Dialytic Population