Diabetes and Hypertension Evaluation and Management /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: McFarlane, Samy I. (Editor), Bakris, George L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana Press, 2012.
• Series: Contemporary Diabetes
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Diabetes.; Endocrinology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.

Diabetes and hypertension have evolved as two of the modern day epidemics affecting millions of people around the world. These two common co-morbidities lead to substantial increase in cardiovascular disease, the major cause of morbidity and mortality of adults around the world.  In Diabetes and Hyp...

Table of Contents:

• Epidemiology of Hypertension in Diabetes
• Evaluation and Management of Secondary Hypertension
• Hypertension in African-Americans
• Hypertension in Chronic Kidney Disease
• Diabetes and Hypertension in People with Sleep Apnea: Risk Evaluation and Therapeutic Rationale
• Resistant Hypertension: Etiology, Evaluation and Management
• Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
• Hypertension, Diabetes and the Eye
• Predictors of Kidney Disease in Diabetic, Hypertensive Patients
• Antihypertensive Therapy and New Onset Diabetes
• Global Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in People with Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension
• Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence from Clinical Trials
• Dietary and Lifestyle Approaches to Hypertension in the Population with Diabetes
• Novel Pharmacological Approaches in Hypertension Treatment.