Management of Hypertension

 

SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL RESEARCH

 

1. The importance of applying evidence-based medicine in clinical practice.

2. How to read and understand a scientific paper?

3. Medical Biostatistics; The basics

 

 

  SECTION TWO: MAJOR TRIALS IN HYPERTENSION RESEARCH



 

4.       Is blood pressure related to increased cardiovascular risk?

  5.       The VA Cooperative Studies - The First RCTs of Hypertension anywhere in the world.






6.        What is the role of dietary modifications in controlling blood pressure?




7.       Hypertension management in the elderly

 

8.       Hypertension management in African Americans

 

9.       Hypertension management in diabetics

 


10.   Outcomes of different antihypertensive regimens




11.   Comparison of combination therapies in the treatment of hypertension




12.   What is the goal of treatment?


13.   Can we prevent hypertension?



 

SECTION THREE: BLOOD PRESSURE ASSESSMENT METHODS USED IN LANDMARK TRIALS 14.   Methods of blood pressure assessment used in milestone hypertension trials








SECTION FOUR: PIONEERS IN HYPERTENSION RESEARCH

15.   Marvin Moser

16.   Irvine Page 17.   Edward Freis



18.   Stevo Julius

 

SECTION FIVE: CLOSING REMARKS

19.   The Future in Hypertension Research

 

 

 

Dr Vasilios Papademetriou, MD, is a professor of medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and staff cardiologist at Veterans Affairs Medical Centre in Washington, DC. He is the director of cardiovascular research, interventional hypertension and vascular medicine program, and co-director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at the Veterans Affairs Medical Centre. Dr Papademetriou's clinical interests include cardiac catheterization, PCI/STENTS, myocardial biopsies, pericardiocentesis, stress and transesophageal echocardiography, and revascularization of high risk patients. He runs a large clinic of patients with resistant hypertension and dyslipidemia, while his research is focused on hypertension and vascular biology, dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis, acute coronary syndromes/acute MI, and cardiovascular complications of diabetes. He has special interest in device-based treatment of patients with resistant hypertension and he is one of the principal investigators of the Renal Denervation projects. He has been a principal investigator for many "investigator initiated" and multicenter clinical trials and received numerous research grants from both public funding and industrial sponsors.

Dr Emmanuel A. Andreadis, MD, PhD is the director of the Fourth Department of Internal Medicine and the Head of the Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Center at Evangelismos General Hospital, in Athens, Greece, which has been recognized as an ESH Center of Excellence since 2012. Recently, Dr Andreadis and the Center became affiliated with the Hypertension and Vascular Medicine Clinic of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in Washington, DC, USA. He trained extensively in hypertension at the University Department of Medicine & Therapeutics and the Glasgow Blood Pressure Clinic, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK, and he is an ESH Clinical Hypertension Specialist. He is also a European Fellow on Medical Angiology having trained at the Saint

"The book is intended for medical scientists, researchers, and physicians who specialize in hypertension treatment. The book is outstanding in providing the landmark studies that have changed the practice of the management of hypertension. ... I would recommend this book to anyone interested in this exciting and important field." (Sanbir S Sidhu, Doody's Book Reviews, May 24, 2019)