Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics

Section I. Techniques in Out-of-Office Blood Pressure Monitoring. Self-Monitoring of Blood Pressure, Thomas G. Pickering, and D.Phil. Evaluation of Journals, Diaries, and Indexes of Worksite and Environmental Stress, Gary D. James. Electronic Activity Recording in Cardiovascular Disease, George A. Mansoor . Ambulatory Monitoring of the Blood Pressure, Yusra Anis Anwar and William B. White. Section II. Concepts in the Circadian Variation of Cardiovascular Disease. Circadian Rhythm and Environmental Determinants of Blood Pressure Regulation in Normal and Hypertensive Conditions, Francesco Portaluppi and Michael H. Smolensky.Circadian Variation of the Blood Pressure in the Population at Large, Hilde Celis and Jan A. Staessen. The Importance of Heart Rate in Determining Cardiovascular Risk, Paolo Palatini. Impact of Sodium, Potassium, the Sympathetic Nervous System, and the Renin-Angiotensin System on the Circadian Variability in Blood Pressure, Domenic A. Sica and Dawn K. Wilson. Prognostic Value of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring, Paolo Verdecchia and Giuseppe Schillaci , Ospedale R. Silvestrini. Circadian Rhythm of Myocardial Infarction and Sudden Cardiac Death, Craig A. Chasen and James E. Muller. Seasonal, Weekly and Circadian Variability of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke, Tudor D. Vagaonescu, Robert A. Phillips, Stanley Tuhrim. Hypertension Section and Cardiac Health Program, Zena and Michael A. Wiener. Section III. Twenty-four hour blood pressure monitoring and therapy. Cardiovascular Chronobiology and Chronopharmacology: Importance of Timing of Dosing , Bjorn Lemmer,. Advances in Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring for the Assessment of Antihypertensive Therapy in Research and Practice,William B. White.