Main description:

Diabetes and hypertension have evolved as two of the modern day epidemics affecting millions of people around the world. These two common co-morbidities lead to substantial increase in cardiovascular disease, the major cause of morbidity and mortality of adults around the world. In Diabetes and Hypertension: Evaluation and Management, a panel of renowned experts address a range of critical topics -- from basic concepts in evaluation and management of diabetes and hypertension, such as dietary interventions, to evaluation and management of secondary hypertension in clinical practice. Other chapters focus on high cardiovascular risk populations such as those with coronary heart disease, chronic kidney disease and minority patients. In addition, evolving concepts and new developments in the field are presented in other chapters, such as prevention of type 2 diabetes and the epidemic of sleep apnea and its implication for diabetes and hypertension evaluation and management. An important title covering two of the most troubling disorders of our time, Diabetes and Hypertension: Evaluation and Management will provide the busy practitioner with cutting edge knowledge in the field as well as practical information that can translate into better care provided to the high-risk population of diabetics and hypertensive patients.

Contents:

1. Epidemiology of Hypertension in Diabetes
Brent M. Egan, Yumin Zhao, and Walter A. Brzezinski

2. Evaluation and Management of Secondary Hypertension
Nathaniel Winer

3. Hypertension in African-Americans
Mahboob Rahman

4. Hypertension in Chronic Kidney Disease
Kunal Chaudhary, J P Buddineni, Joshua Botdorf, and Adam Whaley-Connell

5. Diabetes and Hypertension in People with Sleep Apnea: Risk Evaluation and Therapeutic Rationale
Abhishek Pandey, Oladipupo Olafiranye, Monsur Adedayo, Ferdinand Zizi, Samy I. McFarlane, and Girardin Jean-Louis

6. Resistant Hypertension: Etiology, Evaluation and Management
Oladipupo Olafiranye, Sidrah Mahmud, Ferdinand Zizi, Samy I. McFarlane, Girardin Jean-louis, and Gbenga Ogedegbe

7. Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Mariana Garcia-Touza and James R. Sowers

8. Hypertension, Diabetes and the Eye
Douglas R. Lazzaro and Eric Shrier

9. Predictors of Kidney Disease in Diabetic, Hypertensive Patients
Jaya P Buddineni, Kunal Chaudhary, and Adam Whaley-Connel

10. Antihypertensive Therapy and New Onset Diabetes
Ivana Lazich and George Bakris

11. Global Cardiovascular Risk Reduction in People with Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension
Haisam Ismail and Amgad N. Makaryus

12. Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence from Clinical Trials
Jocelyne G Karam and Samy I McFarlane

13. Dietary and Lifestyle Approaches to Hypertension in the Population with Diabetes
Lorena Drago

14. Novel Pharmacological Approaches in Hypertension Treatment
Edgar Lerma and George Bakris