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

This new account of the pathogenesis of essential hypertension (EH) represents a detailed analysis of the main components of the circulatory control system. The latter's properties resemble those of man-made adaptive control systems in which regulatory parameters are altered when operating cond...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Korner, Paul I.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.