Essential hypertension and its causes : neural and non-neural mechanisms /

Main Author: Korner, Paul I.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • A short history and some clinical aspects
  • The nature of the cardiovascular control system
  • Blood pressure genetics
  • Human arterial pressure
  • Output patterns in non-obese hypertensives
  • The peripheral vascular integrator
  • Cardiac performance
  • CNS cardiovascular pathways : role of fast and slow transmitters
  • Whole-organism baroreflexes
  • Exercise training and its long-term effects on blood pressure : linkage to somatic movement
  • Psychosocial stress and hypertension
  • Salt, other dietary factors, and blood pressure
  • Normotensive and hypertensive obesity
  • Obstructive sleep apnea
  • More about the kidney in hypertension
  • SHR hypertension and its causes
  • Two syndromes of essential hypertension.