M. H. Alderman

Foreword The concept of the Handbook of Hypertension developed in the late 1970s from a widespread feeling that the diversity of interests and inputs into hypertension research no longer lent themselves to publication in a single textbook. Moreover, it became apparent that some areas change and...

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...