Hypertension in Children and Adolescents New Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lurbe, Empar (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wühl, Elke (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Updates in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection,
• Subjects: Cardiology.; Pediatrics.; Nephrology.; General practice (Medicine).; General Practice / Family Medicine.

This book is devoted to hypertension in children and adolescents, a clinical issue that - thanks to the strides made in several areas of pathophysiological and clinical research - has received growing interest in cardiovascular medicine over the last several years. Given the increasing prevalence of...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 From pregnancy to childhood and adulthood: The trajectory of hypertension
• 3 Perinatal programing and blood pressure
• 4 Worldwide overview about the prevalence and trends of hypertension in Children and Adolescents
• 5 Office and out of office blood pressure measurements
• 6 Large vessels in hypertension: Central blood pressure
• 7 Isolated systolic hypertension
• 8 Secondary hypertension: Diagnostic and treatment
• 9 Monogenic hypertension
• 10 Neonatal hypertension
• 11 The heart in hypertension
• 12 The kidney in hypertension
• 13 No pharmacological treatment of hypertension
• 14Pharmacological approach to hypertension treatment
• 15 Physical exercise in the treatment of obesity: New approach to individualize treatment
• 16 Treatment of hypertension in chronic kidney disease
• 17 Long term follow up
• 18 Clinical trials.