Current Concepts In Hypertension

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.

Volume 4, Issue 3- May 2001
- Hypertension and Renal Disease
- Medical Management of Renovascular Disease In Hypertensives
- Hypertension in Parenchymal Renal Disease

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

Volume 4, Issue 1 - June 2000
- Role of Oxidative Stress In Hypertensive Vascular Injury
- Fenoldopam: A Dopaminergic Vasodilator
- Dopamine Receptors In Hypertension

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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