Book Description:
This book gathers the latest research from around the world on hypertension and stroke. While it is widely known how raised heart rate adversely affects ischaemic heart disease and congestive heart failure, it has not been clearly shown how low heart rate increases tendency to stroke. Thus the influence of heart rate on development of stroke is examined in this book. The etiology of pediatric stroke, a potentially devastating condition, is also discussed, since it is an important condition that often remains unknown in a considerable number of patients. Furthermore, arterial hypertension and cardiovascular complications in patients with glomerular kidney disease are also explored in this book.
The progress that has been made towards identifying the genetics of risk factors in polygenic and multifactorial intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is presented and data regarding monogenic conditions associated with ICH is summarized. Other chapters in this book include the examination of the association between blood pressure (BP) and bone mineral content (BMC) in pediatrics; arterial hypertension as one of the main clinical symptoms of aortic coarctation in children, and a review of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) as a noninvasive method of blood pressure assessment, which is considered to be a very useful tool in the diagnosis of arterial hypertension in adults, teenagers and children.

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Table of Contents:
Preface

Genetics of intracerebral hemorrhage (Alessandro Pezzini, Elisabetta Del Zotto, Alessia Giossi, Irene Volonghi and Alessandro Padovani, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Clinica Neurologica, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italia and others)pp.1-24

Primary Arterial Hypertension In Obese Children As A Risk Factor Of The Development Of Premature Atherosclerosis
(Maria Hanna Kniażewska, Anna Karolina Obuchowicz, Department of Pediatrics in Bytom, Medical University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)pp.25-44

On the existing relationships between the physical activity, tobacco consumption, body composition and socioeconomic status as a function of the blood pressure among Spanish adolescents
(Cordente Martínez, Carlos A, García Soidán Pilar, Sillero Quintana, Manuel, Stirling James, Polytechnic University of Madrid, and others)pp.45-68

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring In Children With Glomerular Kidney Disease
(Piotr Skrzypczyk, Małgorzata Panczyk-Tomaszewska, Iwona Bieroza, Maria Roszkowska-Blaim, Department of Pediatrics and Nephrology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw)pp.69-86

Surgical Palliative Options for Patients with Hypoplastic Left Heart (Clifford L. Cua, Christopher L. Cua and Lillian S. Lai, Heart Center, Columbus Children's Hospital, and others)pp.87-100

Influence of Heart Rate on Development of Stroke among Patients at Risk for Cerebrovascular Disease (Basil N. Okeahialam, Ayuba I. Zoakah, Department of Medicine, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria and others)pp.101-112

Standards and pitfalls regarding the SHR model in genetic hypertension and stroke (Hiroshi Yao, M.D.1 and Toru Nabika, Center for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, National Hospital Organization Hizen Psychiatric Center, Saga, Japan and others) pp.113-124

Hypertensive Children have Lower Bone Mass than Normotensive Children
(Afrooz Afghani, College of Health Sciences, TUI University, Cypress, CA)pp.125-136

Hypertension and Obesity (Alfonso D. Torres and Colette A. Gushurst, Pediatric Nephrology, Pediatrics and Human Development Michigan State, and others)pp.137-146

Arterial hypertension in children after the surgical repair of aortic coarctation
(Tomasz Florianczyk, Bozena Werner, Jacek Skiendzielewski, Piotr Wieniawski, Department of Pediatric Cardiology and General Pediatrics, The Medical University of Warsaw)pp.147-156

Problems of methodology and interpretation of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children
(Tomasz Florianczyk, Bozena Werner, Department of Pediatric Cardiology and General Pediatrics, The Medical University of Warsaw)pp.157-162

Genetic Studies in Pediatric Stroke (Natasa Marcun Varda and Alojz Gregoric, Department of Pediatrics, Maribor Teaching Hospital, Maribor, Slovenia)pp.163-172

Index pp.173-177