A. Amery

Foreword The scope of hypertension in man has developed over the last 30 years from the short-term care of a small number of hospitalized patients with severely elevated blood pressure and extensive target-organ failure to a major long-term community-health problem involving a substantial...

Preface Despite tremendous advances in the treatment of arterial hypertension, the management of mild elevations of blood pressure still raises a number of questions: At which levels of blood pressure is drug treatment warranted? Do side effects outweigh the benefits of pharmacotherapy in...