Hypertension

• Patient assessment- brief overview

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• Guidelines
• New Zealand Guidelines: Threshold for Pharmacologic Treatment
• New Zealand Guidelines: Emerging Risk Factors
• Selected Information From JNC 7

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• Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
• LVH on ECG and prognosis
• LVH with echo and prognosis
• Africans have more LVH
• LVH- more information

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• Hypertension Trials
• Beta-blockers no longer first or second line agents for treatment of hypertension for all patients.
• Review of Hypertension trials- 2005
• ASCOT, LIFE, ALLHAT, ANBP2

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• Ambulatory and Home BP Monitoring
• Introduction

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• Lifestyle Measures
• Impact on Hypertension

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• Resistant Hypertension
• Meet the experts session- ESC 2008