Epidemiology of Arterial Blood Pressure

by H. Kesteloot

Hypertension is a major health problem and contrary to ischemic heart disease, which occurs only in Western countries, its distribution is almost universal. It is this universality that has prompted us to gather, in this book, data on arterial blood pressure obtained in different parts of the world. Moreover, cerebrovascular mortality, which is the commonest cause of death from hypertension, is decreasing in most Western countries and in Japan, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9024723868
• ISBN13: 9789024723867
• Release Date: November 1980
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 531 Pages