TY - CHAP AU - Michael Ezenwa ED - Madhu Khullar Y1 - 2012-03-09 PY - 2012 T1 - Does Music Therapy Reduce Blood Pressure in Patients with Essential Hypertension in Nigeria? N2 - This book, authored by renowned researchers in the field of Hypertension Research, details the state of the art knowledge in genetics, genomics and pathophysiology of Essential hypertension, specifically the genetic determinants of hypertension and role of gene variants in response to anti-hypertensive therapy. Two chapters describe mitochondrial mutations in Essential hypertension and in hypertension associated Left ventricular hypertrophy, one chapter reviews in detail the global gene expression in hypertension, and an up to date treatise on pathophysiology of resistant hypertension is detailed in another chapter. Other topics included in the book are end organ damage, baroreceptor sensitivity and role of music therapy in essential hypertension. BT - Genetics and Pathophysiology of Essential Hypertension SP - Ch. 5 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/29782 DO - 10.5772/29782 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -