Abstract
The title of this book and the range of topics that are covered in its chapters indicate a large, complex, and ever-growing body of medical science related to blood pressure and, in particular, the application of that science to care of a very large fraction of the globe’s human population [1]. The cardiovascular scientist defines blood pressure as the measured force upon the blood at some point from within the heart to the vascular tree from arteries to capillaries to veins and back to the pump. Clinicians usually refer to the measurement of pressure in the upper arm (brachial artery pressure). Much of the population may consider blood pressure to overlap with “pressure,” meaning mental stress related to the “pressure” of work, family concerns, and various threats. “Blood pressure” alone may not be the optimal term for all these perspectives, so that more precise and meaningful terms are truly needed for an accurate set of definitions that capture current research in this very important area of cardiovascular medicine.
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Krakoff, L.R. (2018). Introduction: Definition and Classification of Arterial Pressure Phenotypes. In: Berbari, A., Mancia, G. (eds) Disorders of Blood Pressure Regulation. Updates in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59918-2_1
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