Core Concepts in Hypertension in Kidney Disease
This guide provides a comprehensive review of the full spectrum of hypertension in chronic kidney disease (CKD). Targeted towards the busy practitioner, the focus of this volume is on various therapies and how to lower blood pressure through lifesty
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Core Concepts in Hypertension in Kidney Disease
Ajay K. Singh • Rajiv Agarwal Editors
Core Concepts in Hypertension in Kidney Disease
Editors Ajay K. Singh Global and Continuing Education Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA
Rajiv Agarwal VA Medical Center Indiana University School of Medicine Indianapolis, IN, USA
ISBN 978-1-4939-6434-5 ISBN 978-1-4939-6436-9 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-6436-9
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Preface
Hypertension is ubiquitous in chronic kidney disease (CKD); textbooks on hypertension in CKD are not. The specialist wants to master the art of managing hypertension in CKD, yet there are few resources to go to. This book, we hope, fills the vacuum for the specialist who wants a comprehensive review of hypertension in CKD. In approaching the difficult task to fill this void, we created topics that would have minimal overlap among them and asked each of the authors to provide a comprehensive, yet succinct, narrative on the subject. Authors need little introduction as they are respected authorities in the field from around the world; we are grateful for their efforts in creating this text. As editors, we did not try to change their opinions—even when our approach may have been different—because the evidence base for practice is often thin and opinion-based. We did ask our authors to rationalize their unique approach in the hopes that this would allow the readers to appreciate the variations in practice among authorities. Books are old-fashioned and often have the quality of being outdated even before they are published. So we may ask: why do we still read books? There is something real about holding a book; the smell of paper, turning th
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