Hypertension and Heart Failure

The second edition of this well-received book will offer both new insights intotheintimate mechanisms oftransition fromhypertension toheart failure and clinical practice advice ontheprevention and treatment ofheart failure in hypertensive population. Heart failure is theresult ofthehypertension's effects ontheheart and it is a growing public health problem, as it affects 20-50% oftheadult population in developed countries. In this context theinternational scientific community is continuously struggling todevelop better strategies in screening, diagnosing and treating hypertension and its deleterious effects. Thus, this field is continuously changing, withnew important information being added constantly. Apart ofthebook dedicated todiagnostics, comprising a chapter onnew perspectives onmultimodality imaging and a special chapter ondiastolic dysfunction. Thearrhythmic complications ofhypertensive heart disease are discussed in two chapters onatrial fibrillation and ventricular arrhythmias respectively. Readers will also find new chapters regarding hypertension and heart failure in special populations such as cancer patients, young patients, pregnancy and patients witha history ofSARS-CoV2 infection. This book is a useful tool for clinicians but also to the research community interested in heart failure andconsequences of hypertension on heart who want to be up-to-date with the new developments in the field.