"Update on Essential Hypertension" ed. by Lizbeth Salazar-Sanchez

This work, authored by renowned researchers in the field, gives updated concepts about essential hypertension. Novel advanced topics are presented in a sole document as hypertension in children; the contribution in the psychiatric comorbidities associated with it; mechanisms of omega-3 in protection against hypertension-related organ damage; oxidative stress at different levels; genetics-associated studies; the role of pollution in essential hypertension; personalized healthcare in a hypertensive patient; and hypertension-related disparities between ethnic groups.

Essential hypertension is one of the hottest topics in contemporary medicine.
Essential hypertension is a quantitative characteristic that is important for correlating with the rate of morbidity and mortality in the developed and developing countries. The etiology of essential hypertension is complex.


Contents
Preface
1 Introductory chapter: Essential Hypertension in the Twenty‐ First Century… What is Next?
2 Essential Hypertension in Children: New Mechanistic Insights
3 Oxidative Stress and Essential Hypertension
4 Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Blood Pressure Control and Essential Hypertension
5 Psychiatric Comorbidity in Essential Hypertension
6 Ambient Particulate Matter Air Pollution Exposure and Hypertension
7 ACE I/D (Rs1799752), MTHFR C677T (Rs1801133), and CCR5 D32 (Rs333) Genes and their Association with Hypertension and Diabetic Nephropathy in Urban Areas of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Mexico
8 Relevance of Personalized Health Care in Patients with Arterial Hypertension: Where are we now?
9 Myocardial Connexin-43 is Implicated in the Prevention of Malignant Arrhythmia in Rats Suffering from Essential Hypertension
10 Hypertension and Hypertension-Related Disparities in Underrepresented Minorities