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01-02-2006 | Book Review
George A. Mansoor (ed): Secondary hypertension: clinical presentation, diagnosis and treatment
Humana Press Inc, Totowa, New Jersey, 2004, 352 pp (ISBN 1-588-29-141-3), US$ 99.50
Author:
Manju Chandra
Published in:
Pediatric Nephrology
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Issue 2/2006
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Excerpt
The book entitled Secondary Hypertension: Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis and Treatment is a timely volume on this important subject. As the knowledge about various predisposing factors for hypertension has grown, physicians have searched harder and with new techniques for secondary causes in patients with newly diagnosed hypertension, with increasing yield. This book updates various medical conditions that contribute to hypertension and summarizes the clinical features that would alert a clinician to search for a secondary cause. …