Arteries in Clinical Hypertension - Tapa dura

This text stresses the importance of obtaining a blood pressure reduction while also improving the structural and functional abnormalities of the large arterial vessels. The author explains how large arterial vessels are integrally involved both in the definition and mechanisms of the hypertensive vascular disease through increased stiffness in the arterial wall. The book concludes with a critical review of the therapeutic trials of hypertension.