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Foreword
Preface
Contributors
Pt. I Techniques for Out-of-Office Blood Pressure Monitoring
1 Self-Monitoring of Blood Pressure 3
2 Evaluation of Journals, Diaries, and Indexes of Worksite and Environmental Stress 29
3 Electronic Activity Recording in Cardiovascular Disease 45
4 Ambulatory Monitoring of the Blood Pressure: Devices, Analysis, and Clinical Utility 57
Pt. II Concepts in the Circadian Variation of Cardiovascular Disease
5 Circadian Rhythm and Environmental Determinants of Blood Pressure Regulation in Normal and Hypertensive Conditions 79
6 Circadian Variation of the Blood Pressure in the Population at Large 139
7 Importance of Heart Rate in Determining Cardiovascular Risk 159
8 Sodium, Potassium, the Sympathetic Nervous System, and the Renin-Angiotensin System: Impact on the Circadian Variability in Blood Pressure 171
9 Prognostic Value of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring 191
10 Circadian Rhythm of Myocardial Infarction and Sudden Cardiac Death 219
11 Seasonal, Weekly, and Circadian Variability of Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Stroke 243
Pt. III Twenty-Four-Hour Blood Pressure Monitoring and Therapy
12 Cardiovascular Chronobiology and Chronopharmacology: Importance of Timing of Dosing 255
13 Advances in Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring for the Evaluation of Antihypertensive Therapy in Research and Practice 273
Index 299