Overview -- Epidemiology Awareness, Prevalence, and Control: Newest Findings on Hypertension in Blacks -- Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes to Decrease Unhealthy Eating Patterns and Improve Blood Pressure in African Americans -- Community Programs for Hypertension: A Means of Identification and Intervention in the Highest Risk Population -- Stroke and Hypertension in High Risk African Americans -- Manifestations of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Coronary Heart Disease: The Contribution of Hypertension and the Paradox in Blacks -- Heart Failure Morbidity, Mortality and its Relationship to Hypertension -- Hypertension and Atrial Fibrillation in African Americans -- Cardiorenal Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes in African Americans: Adding to the Risk of Hypertension -- Central Aortic Pressure, Arterial Compliance: Emerging Tools to Identify and Guide Therapy for High Risk African American Patients -- Renal Denervation Therapy and Baroreceptor Activation Therapy: Emerging Tools for Treating Resistant Hypertension -- Practical Approaches to Promote Adherence and Improve Blood Pressure Control in Black Patients -- Integration of a Team Approach to Hypertension Treatment -- Practical Pearls in the Treatment of Hypertension in Blacks -- Hypertension in African Americans -- New Guideline Recommendations on Hypertension: Preventing CVD and Renal Disease with Applications to Blacks.

This volume discusses the many ways to prevent, identify and control hypertension in African Americans, a common and potent risk factor for virtually all forms of cardiovascular-renal diseases. Comprehensive chapters address modifiable risk factors, such as lifestyle changes, especially sodium restriction, and appropriate combination pharmacotherapy. Emerging devices and evidence-based approaches that may also enhance effective blood pressure control and decrease the disparate cardiovascular disease risks, including MI, stroke, HF, and cardiorenal metabolic syndrome and diabetesÂ{u1CA5} also discussed in detail.Âײitten by a wide-range of experts in the field, Hypertension in High Risk African Americans: Current Concepts, Evidence-based Therapeutics and Future Considerations is a valuable resource for clinicians, researchers, health administrators and public health policy leaders to better understand the best practices and unique aspects of risk assessment and treatment of hypertension and co-morbid conditions in African Americans.