Clinician’s Manual: Treatment of Hypertension

1. Definition of hypertension
Franz H Messerli

2. The J curve
Franz H Messerli

3. Drug therapy or lifestyle modification?
Franz H Messerli

4. First-line antihypertensive therapy: the simplistic viewpoint
Franz H Messerli

5. Hypertension as a gateway to cardiovascular risk modification
Franz H Messerli

6. To twofer or not to twofer
Franz H Messerli

7. When initial therapy is insufficient — To uptitrate, to substitute, or to combine?
Franz H Messerli

8. How aggressively should blood pressure be lowered?
Franz H Messerli

9. Evidence-based versus eminence-based therapy
Franz H Messerli

10. Combination therapy
Franz H Messerli

11. Comorbid conditions
Franz H Messerli

12. Therapeutic challenges
Franz H Messerli

13. Fashions and fads
Franz H Messerli

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Cardiology, Angiology