Prehypertension and Cardiometabolic Syndrome

I Epidemiology and Statistics.- 1 Epidemiology, statistics and health burden.- 2 PreHypertension, the risk of Hypertension and events.- 3 Parental history of hypertension as the determinant of cardiovascular function.- 4 High normal blood pressure in children and adolescents.- II Pathophysiology of prehypertension.- Part 1 Alteration of Cardiovascular control systems.- 5 Tachycardia in PreHypertension.- 6 Endothelial dysfunction in early phases of hypertension.- 7 Prehypertension and the Renin angiotensin aldosterone system.- 8 The role of the brain in neurogenic prehypertension.- 9 The blood pressure seeking property of the brain.- Part 2 Organ damage in Prehypertension.- 10 Microvascular structural alternations and tissue perfusion in hypertension and diabetes.-11 The heart in prehypertension.- 12 The role of the kidney in PreHypertension.- 13 Obesity, Hypertension and Chronic Kidney Disease: A Forty Year Retrospective.- 14 Pre-CKD? Early markers of renal dysfunction in patientswith Prehypertension.- 15 Arterial stiffness in early phases of Prehypertension.- 16  The role of perivascular fat in raising blood pressure in obesity and diabetes.- 17 The Brain.- 18 Diurnal and pulsatile hemodynamics in individuals with PreHypertension.- 19 Systolic hypertension in youth.- 20 Prehypertension and ethnicity: Haemodynamic mechanisms in young adults.- 21 Hemodynamics (systemic and renal) in prehypertension.- 22 Central blood pressure and Prehypertension.- Section 3: Risk assessment in PreHypertension.- 23 Blood pressure measurement, white coat and masked hypertension.-24 Vascular functional and structural risk assessment in prehypertension.- 25 Blood pressure variability.- 26 Morning Surge of Blood Pressure.- 27 Role of ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring in Prehypertension.- 28 Home blood pressure, prehypertension and hypertension.- 29 Blood pressure and atherosclerosis- subclinical arteriosclerosis as an early sign of organ damage.- 30 Response to stress, effortand

Reuven Zimlichman is Chief of the Department of Medicine, Head of the Hypertension Institute at the E. Wolfson Medical Center, Israel, Director of 'The Brunner Cardiovascular Research Institute', Tel-Aviv University and Director of the 'Institute for Quality in Medicine', Israeli Medical Association. He is also a former Vice Dean and Head of School of the Continuing Education program at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Zimlichman has published more than 200 papers, 5 books and numerous book chapters. His publications are in the fields of basic research, cell cultures, animal research and clinical research and cover clinical areas including hypertension, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, end organ damage and evaluation of arterial properties.