Hypertension
- Advances in noninvasive screening for renovascular disease
What are the current indications for the captopril plasma renin activity test, captopril renography, duplex ultrasonography, and magnetic resonance angiography?
- Antihypertensive treatment in patients with peripheral vascular disease
This approach focuses on improving intermittent claudication, coronary artery disease, hyperlipidemia, and diabetes mellitus.
- Hypertension in Hispanic Americans
The language barrier, poverty, and limited access to health care raise the risk of inadequate diagnosis and control of hypertension in this growing population.
- Cardiac function and dysfunction in hypertension
Assessment of systolic and diastolic function is important in the follow-up of hypertensive patients and in the choice of therapy.
- Pheochromocytoma: current diagnosis and management
In patients with paroxysmal or sustained hypertension, especially if symptoms are present, pheochromocytoma should be suspected.
- The fifth report of the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure: insights and highlights from the chairman
Highlights include the new classification schema and recommendations on the use of labetalol.