Bøger af Madhu Khullar

This book, "Hypertension - An Update", covers diverse topics, such as an overview of mechanisms, MRI as a diagnostic tool, the role of stem cells in elucidating molecular mechanisms and tools for hypertension research and therapeutics. It also covers epidemiology and the role of Vitamin D in hypertension. These varied subjects will be of keen interest to clinicians and research scientists.

This book, authored by renowned researchers in the field of Hypertension Research, details the state of the art knowledge in genetics, genomics and pathophysiology of Essential hypertension, specifically the genetic determinants of hypertension and role of gene variants in response to anti-hypertensive therapy. Two chapters describe mitochondrial mutations in Essential hypertension and in hypertension associated Left ventricular hypertrophy, one chapter reviews in detail the global gene expression in hypertension, and an up to date treatise on pathophysiology of resistant hypertension is detailed in another chapter. Other topics included in the book are end organ damage, baroreceptor sensitivity and role of music therapy in essential hypertension.