As the largest professional society with an exclusive interest
in the control of the world’s most common disease, the American Society
of Hypertension is pleased to provide this series of ASH Current Concepts in
Hypertension. Each of these 6-page pamphlets will contain short reviews of
4 or 5 “hoSt” topics
about the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension.
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Volume
4, Issue 4 - April 2002
Editor's Comments
AASK Comments
Refractory Hypertension |
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Volume
4, Issue 3- May 2001
Hypertension and Renal Disease
Medical Management of Renovascular Disease In Hypertensives
Hypertension in Parenchymal Renal Disease |
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Volume
4, Issue 2 - August 2000
Endothelial Dysfunction, Obesity, And Blood Pressure In Children
Effect Of Antihypertensive Drugs On Endothelial Dysfunction In Hypertension
Application Of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring To The Evaluation Of
Hypertensive
Children
Adolescent Obesity And Hypertension |
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Volume
4, Issue 1 - June 2000
Role of Oxidative Stress In Hypertensive Vascular
Injury
Fenoldopam: A Dopaminergic Vasodilator
Dopamine Receptors In Hypertension |
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Volume
3, Issue 4 - December 1999
Diabetes and Hypertension
Pathophysiology of Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension
Editor’s
Comments Diabetic Hypertension: More from CAPPP, UKPDS, FACET,
HOT,
SHEP and SYST-EUR and Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension |
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Volume
3, Issue 3 - September 1999
The Effect of Age and Hypertension on Systolic,
Diastolic, Mean, and Pulse Pressure:
The Framingham Heart Study
The Rationale for the African-American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension
Hypertension and Insulin Resistance: Is Defective Nitric Oxide Production One
Missing Link?
Editor's Comments:
News From Framingham: The AASK Study and Insulin
Resistance-Is it Due to No NO? |
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Volume
3, Issue 2 - July 1999
Implications of the Hypertension Optimal Tretment
(HOT) Study
Some Random Thoughts About Recent Blood Pressure Trials
Hypertension in Patients With Chronic RenalFailure
Editor's Comments: More Alphabet Soup: HOT, CAPPP, UKPDS and ESRD |
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Volume
3, Issue 1 - April 1999
Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Congestive Heart Failure in Hypertension
Diastolic Heart Failure: A Brief Review of Mechanisms and Treatment
Valsartan Long-term Use Evaluation (VALUE) Study
Editor's Comments: Hypertension and Heart Disease |
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Volume
2, Issue 4 - November 1998
Editor’s Comments: Wading Through the Alphabet
Soup
The Losartan Intervention For Endpoint Reduction (LIFE) in Hypertension Study
Demographics of the LIFE Study
The Effect
of Dietary Patterns On Blood Pressure: Results From the Dietary
Approaches
to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Clinical Trial |
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Volume
2, Issue 3 - April 1998
The Microcirculation in Hypertension: An Overview
Skeletal Muscular Microcirculation in Heart Failure
Microangiopathy in Diabetes
Renal Hemodynamics and Glomerular and Vascular Injury in Hypertension
Microvascular Remodeling in Hypertension: A Role for the Renin-Angiotensin-
Aldosterone
System |
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Volume
2, Issue 2 - August 1997
Age, Migration, and Blood Pressure in the Panamanian
Kuna
Coronary and Peripheral Vasoreactivity: Role of Endothelial Dysfunction
Risk Factors and Abnormal Venoreactivity
The Relationship of Insulin Resistance to Vasomotor Control
Fatty Acids and Neurovascular Regulation: A Possible Link Between Insulin
Resistance
and Hypertension |
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Volume
2, Issue 1 - May 1997
Nutritional Management of Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Health Outcomes Associated With Antihypertensive Therapies Used as
First-line
Agents. A Systematic Review and Metaanalysis
Age, Migration, and Blood Pressure in the Panamanian Kuna |
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Volume
1, Issue 4 - October 1996
The
LIFE Study: A Comparison of Losartan and Atenolol for Prevention of
Cardiovascular
Events in Hypertensive Patients with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
The CONVINCE (Controlled ONset Verapamil INvestigation of Cardiovascular
Endpoints)
Study
Focus on Isolated Systolic Hypertension |
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Volume
1, Issue 3 - April 1996
Abnormalities of Endothelium-dependent Vascular
Relaxation in Patients with
Essential Hypertension
Dyslipidemia and Endothelial Dysfunction
Long-term Antihypertensive Therapy
Simplified Screening for Primary Aldosteronism
Low-dose Combination Therapy for Hypertension |
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Volume
1, Issue 2 - January 1996
SYST-EUR: A European Therapeutic Trial on Isolated
Systolic Hypertension in
the Elderly
Antihypertensive and Lipid-lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial
(ALLHAT)
Prevention and Treatment of Hypertension Study (PATHS) |
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Volume
1, Issue 1 - October 1995
The Hottest Topic of the Moment
Losartan
Renal Duplex Ultrasound for Diagnosis of Renal Artery Stenosis
Alcohol and Blood Pressure |