100 QUESTIONS IN CARDIOLOGY

FFuurrtthheerr rreeaaddiinngg McMahon S. Blood pressure and risks of cardiovascular disease. In: Swales JD, ed. Textbook of hype ...

2 Is 24 hour blood pressure monitoring necessary, and what do I do with the information? Kieran Bhagat Patients with evidence of ...

“White coat” hypertensives The clinical significance of white coat hypertension has yet to be established. Some echocardiographi ...

3 Who should be screened for a cause of secondary hypertension? How do I screen? Kieran Bhagat The clinical context and the outc ...

Endocrine investigations. 24 hour urinary cortisol (Cushing’s syndrome), 24 hour noradrenaline/adrenaline/dopamine (catecholam ...

4 What blood pressure should I treat, and what should I aim for when treating a 45 year old, a 60 year old, a 75 year old or an ...

given level of BP lowering) the relative reduction in stroke and CHD is constant whatever the starting level of BP. Thus, the ab ...

RReeffeerreenncceess 1 New Zealand guidelines and tables available at http: //www.nzgg.org.nz 2 Hingorani AD, Vallance P. A simp ...

5 Is one treatment for hypertension proven to be better than another in terms of survival? Kieran Bhagat In terms of efficacy, t ...

2 Dahlof B, Lindholm LH, Hansson L et al. Morbidity and mortality in the Swedish trial in old patients with hypertension (STOP-h ...

6 It was once suggested that calcium channel blockers might be dangerous for treating hypertension. Is this still true? Kieran B ...

3 Cavis BR, Cutler JA, Gordon DJ et al. Rationale and design for the anti- hypertensive and lipid lowering treatment to prevent ...

7 How can I outline a management plan for the patient with essential hypertension? Aroon Hingorani A management plan for the ini ...

8 How do I manage the patient with malignant hypertension? Aroon Hingorani Malignant hypertension was originally defined as hype ...

over 1–2 hours. For hypertensive encephalopathy in the context of pre-eclampsia, intravenous magnesium sulphate is a specific th ...

9 Which asymptomatic hypercholesterolaemic patients benefit from lipid-lowering therapy? What cholesterol level should I aim for ...

10 Which patients with coronary disease have been proven to benefit from pharmacological intervention? What lipid levels should ...

4 Post Coronary Artery Bypass Trial Investigators. The effect of aggressive lowering of low density lipoprotein cholesterol leve ...

11 What drugs should I choose to treat dyslipidaemia, and how should I monitor treatment? John Betteridge SSttaattiinnssinhibit ...

by 10–20%. Fibrates also lower LDL cholesterol in primary hyper- cholesterolaemia (type IIa hyperlipidaemia) by 15–25%. They are ...