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Main description:
The prevalence of hypertension is almost three times as high as that of diabetes mellitus type 2, with both conditions being major risk factors for stroke, ischemic heart disease, cardiac arrhythmias, and heart failure. The exact prevalence of hypertension related to hormonal derangements (endocrine hypertension) is not known but estimated to affect less than 15% of hypertensive patients. Recent scientific discoveries have increased the understanding of the pathophysiologic mechanisms of hypertension. In Endocrine Hypertension, a renowned panel of experts provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of this disorder, discussing when to assign an endocrine cause in one of many conditions that may present with hypertension. The first part of Endocrine Hypertension is dedicated to adrenal causes. The second part of the volume concerns potential nonadrenal causes of hypertension, such as growth hormone excess or deficiency, primary hyperparathyroidism, vitamin D deficiency, testosterone deficiency, insulin resistance, obesity-associated hypertension, and the role of central mineralocorticoid receptors and cardiovascular disease. An important contribution to the literature, Endocrine Hypertension is an indispensable reference not only for endocrinologists, diabetologists, and adrenal investigators, but also for translational scientists and clinicians from cardiology, internal medicine, pediatrics, family medicine, geriatrics, urology, and reproductive medicine / gynecology.
Contents:
Part I: Adrenal Hypertension
Primary Aldosteronism: Progress in Diagnosis, Therapy, and Genetics
Paolo Mulatero, Tracy Ann Williams, Silvia Monticone, Andrea Viola, Davide Tizzani, Valentina Crudo, Jacopo Burrello, Franco Veglio
Syndromes of Mineralocorticoid Excess
Eugen Melcescu, MD, and Christian A. Koch, MD, PhD,
Hypertension in Patients with Cushing's Syndrome:
Vitaly Kantorovich, Christian A. Koch, George P. Chrousos
Primary Generalized Familial and Sporadic Glucocorticoid Resistance (Chrousos syndrome) and Hypersensitivity
Evangelia Charmandari, Tomoshige Kino, and George P. Chrousos
Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
Smita Abraham, MD and Deborah Merke, MD, NIH, NICHD
Adrenal Incidentalomas and Adrenal Hypertension
Theodora Pappa, Gregory Kaltsas, George Piaditis, Gregory Kaltsas, and George P. Chrousos
Pheochromocytoma: Unmasking the Chameleon
Jeremyjones F. Robles, Leilani B. Mercado-Asis, Karel Pacak, MD, PhD, DSc, NIH, NICHD
Part II: Other potential causes of endocrine hypertension
Hypertension in Growth hormone excess and deficiency
Daniel H. P. Towie and George R. Merriam
Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Hypertension
Angela L Carrelli and Shonni J. Silverberg, MD,
Hypertension, Vitamin D deficiency, and Calcium Metabolism
M. Iftekhar Ullah, Christian A. Koch, Vin Tangpricha
Testosterone Deficiency or Male Hypogonadism
Christian A. Koch and Michael Zitzmann, MD, PhD
Insulin Resistance and Hypertension
Sudha S. Shankar and Helmut O. Steinberg
Obesity-associated Hypertension
Gabriel I. Uwaifo, MD,
Central mineralocorticoid receptors and cardiovascular disease
Elise Gomez-Sanchez, PhD,
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Publication date: September, 2014
Pages: 318
Weight: 5037g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Cardiovascular Medicine, Diseases and Disorders, Endocrinology, Nephrology, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Urology
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