Includes bibliographical references and index.

Measurement of blood pressure in the office -- Ambulatory and home blood pressure monitoring -- Clinical evaluation of the patient with hypertension -- Hypertensive emergencies and urgencies -- The epidemiology of hypertension -- Physiology of blood pressure regulation -- Target organ damage or why should we treat hypertension? -- Primary aldosteronism and mineralocorticoid hypertension -- Glucocorticoid hypertension -- Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma -- Other endocrine causes of hypertension -- Renovascular hypertension -- Drug-induced hypertension -- Obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension -- Hereditary causes of hypertension -- Hypertension in children and adolescents -- Hypertension in chronic kidney disease and end-stage kidney disease -- Hypertension in diabetes -- Hypertension after transplantation -- Treatment of hypertension in obesity -- Hypertension in blacks -- Hypertension in the elderly -- Hypertension in pregnancy -- Hypertension in heart disease -- Hypertension in stroke -- Hypertension in the patient with aortic dissection -- Resistant and pseudoresistant hypertension -- Hyperkalemia in hypertension -- Lifestyle modifications for hypertension management -- Blood pressure treatment goals -- Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blocker -- Calcium channel blockers -- Direct vasodilators -- Loop and thiazide diuretics -- Potassium-sparing diuretics -- Alpha antagonists -- Beta-blockers -- Alpha-agonists -- Drug-drug and pharmacogenetic interactions -- Role of device therapy -- Orthostatic hypotension -- Baroreflex dysfunction -- Hypertension: origins.

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