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Edited by George L. Bakris. 234 pp., illustrated. London, Martin Dunitz, 2004. $125. ISBN 1-84184-270-2.

This book pays tribute to the adage "Hypertension goes with the kidney" by examining the relationship between renal function and blood pressure, from a perspective that is primarily clinical and therapeutic but is also grounded in epidemiology and pathophysiology.

The first of the book's three sections discusses such topics as the methodology of blood-pressure measurement, the differential diagnosis and prognostic significance of microalbuminuria in patients with and without diabetes mellitus, and isolated systolic hypertension, which is an increasingly important clinical problem in societies with rapidly growing elderly populations. One chapter is devoted to a discussion about how and when to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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