Heart Failure Diagnosis and Treatment
Heart failure is a syndrome, not a diagnosis. How to recognise it, classify it properly, and build treatment that follows the physiology rather than the label.
Hypertension
Blood pressure management looks simple until it is done properly. This archive covers measurement technique and the case for out-of-office confirmation, phenotyping white coat and masked hypertension, the intensive treatment question raised by SPRINT, and the drug sequencing that actually achieves control: combination therapy early, single-pill regimens, and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonism for resistant disease. Secondary hypertension gets proper attention, particularly primary aldosteronism, renovascular disease, obstructive sleep apnoea and drug-induced elevation. Hypertensive emergency, perioperative management and pressure targets in specific comorbidities are also addressed. For systematic study, see our prevention and lifestyle course books and the cardiology books store.
Hypertension- important in care
High blood pressure is the commonest modifiable cardiovascular risk factor and among the most undertreated. Diagnosis, targets, and what changes outcomes.