Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease

This book provides comprehensive analysis into individualized patient care, and applying evidence-based medicine while integrating basic medical knowledge with applied medicine. The Editor and the contributors not only discuss important issues on hypertension management and its deleterious consequences if it is not well-controlled, but also highlight the important signaling pathways involved in the pathogenesis of hypertensive heart disease and cardiac hypertrophy.

Head of the Hypertension and Cardiovascular Prevention Clinic, 4th

Department of Internal Medicine Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece?(European Society of Hypertension Excellence Center)

General Secretary of the Hellenic Society for the Study of Hypertension 2012-2014

Board member of Writing Committee of the Society’s of Hypertension?Guidelines 2008

Member of the European Society of Hypertension and the Hellenic Society of?Hypertension

The Editor’s Hypertension and Cardiovascular Prevention Clinic has been recognized by the European Society of Hypertension as a Hypertension Center of Excellence; it provides an outstanding, high-quality and cutting-edge clinical care. The therapeutic approach is unique because it deals with the global cardiovascular risk (treatment of diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia, obesity, ischemic heart disease, etc.).

In addition, it provides 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, and offers?devices for accurate home blood pressure monitoring when needed. Furthermore, it is renowned center of education providing students, residents, and practicing physicians with state of the art training about hypertension and its management.