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Edited by Leonard G. Feld. 233 pp. Boston, Butterworth–Heinemann, 1997. $50. ISBN 0-7506-9678-8.

Hypertension was once considered almost exclusively the province of internists. However, an extensive body of clinical and epidemiologic research now clearly points to the antecedents of essential hypertension in childhood. With this realization, hypertension has come of age as a problem in pediatric medicine, and all practitioners who treat children must be thoroughly familiar with it. This book should make the task easier.

Individual chapters in Hypertension in Children deal with the technical aspects of blood-pressure measurement, the cause of essential and secondary hypertension, and a step-by-step approach to diagnosis, as well as nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic therapy. Each chapter has . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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