The investigation and management of hypertension

Current Paediatrics

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 561-568

  Stephens, Suzanne E ^a   Dillon, Michael J ^b  

^a Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary SpR in Paediatric Nephrology   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring; Antihypertensive agents; Arteriography; Centile charts; Essential hypertension; Hypertension; Mercury; Renal parenchymal disease; Renovascular disease

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; AMLODIPINE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ATENOLOL; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CAPTOPRIL; CLONIDINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; DOXAZOSIN; ENALAPRIL; FUROSEMIDE; HYDRALAZINE; LABETALOL; METOLAZONE; MINOXIDIL; NICARDIPINE; NIFEDIPINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENOXYBENZAMINE; PRAZOSIN; PROPRANOLOL; SPIRONOLACTONE; SUCCIMER TC 99M; TRIAMTERENE;

ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET THERAPY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOSE RESPONSE; DROWSINESS; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRICHOSIS; HYPOGLYCEMIA; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SLOW DRUG RELEASE; SODIUM RETENTION; TACHYCARDIA; URINALYSIS; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 0036890787     PISSN: 09575839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/cupe.2002.0347     Document Type: Article

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