Product Description: Here's an essential reference for anyone needing an advanced understanding of the nature and treatment of hypertension. Dr. Laragh, a pioneering clinician and scientist, demonstrates the central role of an overactive renin system for causing most hypertension...read more

Product Description: Arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease and heart fail­ ure are the commonest cardiovascular conditions to present in clinical practice. Over the past few years it has become in­ creasingly clear that they are closely and causally interrelated and that their relationship can have a significant bearing on prognosis...read more

Product Description: This book provides a concise, thoroughly indexed guide to the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of congestive heart failure. Chapters include definition and epidemiology of CHF, pathophysiology of heart failure, sodium and volume homeostasis, diagnosing heart failure, and treatment of congestive heart failure...read more

Product Description: The past three decades have witnessed a veritable explosion in knowledge of high blood pressure and related cardiovascular phenomena. It revolves around two research tracks, one involving new physiologic and pathophysiologic mechanisms, the other the development of increasingly specific drugs to block homeostatic or pathogenic pressor mechanisms at specific points...read more

Product Description: Book by Kaplan, Norman M., Brenner, Barry M.

Product Description: This volume presents the latest findings on the biological actions of atrial peptides, their nucleic acid precursors, their target tissue receptors, and post-receptor biochemical events. Included are reports of research elucidating the amino acid sequence of the active circulating peptide, as well as its prohormone and preprohormone forms, their gene structure, and the characteristics of target tissue receptors...read more

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Product Description: Book by Kaplan, Norman M., Brenner, Barry M.

Product Description: reached full definition in the 1940s by Kempner diet. The important role of adrenal aldosterone and associates in demonstrating the beneficial ef­ secretion in supporting human hypertension is now fects of a low salt rice diet for treating hypertensive well recognized as are the beneficial effects of patients...read more