(Fundamental and Clinical Cardiology. Vol. 22.) Edited by Norman M. Kaplan and C. Venkata S. Ram. 282 pp. New York, Marcel Dekker, 1994. $99.75. ISBN 0-8247-9262-9.
In preparation for reviewing this book, I spent more than afew moments considering how much has changed in the treatmentof hypertension over a generation of medical practice. For example,in my nonscientific poll of current internal-medicine residentsI discovered that they find it preferable to care for a patientwith hypertension rather than one with almost any other outpatientcondition. These young physicians learning about the clinicalaspects of hypertension consider it "easy." They have a longlist of effective, safe medications to choose from, with neweragents continually appearing. They also have very little appreciationof the . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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