David A Calhoun MD
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
619 19th St S Birmingham AL, 35249About
Dr. David Calhoun is a cardiologist practicing in Birmingham, AL. Dr. Calhoun specializes in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diseases or conditions of the heart and blood vessels and the cardiovascular system. These conditions include heart attacks, heart murmurs, coronary heart disease, and hypertension. Dr. Calhoun also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Education and Training
University of Virginia / Main Campus 1986
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Sympathetic-vascular interactions: further evidence in kidney transplantation.
- Resistant hypertension.
- Drugs targeting the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system.
- Efficacy of low-dose spironolactone in subjects with resistant hypertension.
- Pathogenesis of hypertension.
- Aldosterone excretion among subjects with resistant hypertension and symptoms of sleep apnea.
- Resistant hypertension, obesity, sleep apnea, and aldosterone: theory and therapy.
- Impaired endothelium-dependent flow-mediated vasodilation in hypertensive subjects with hyperaldosteronism.
- Use of aldosterone antagonists in resistant hypertension.
- Attitudes about and psychosocial outcomes of HFE genotyping for hemochromatosis.
- Weight gain and hypertension: the chicken-egg question revisited.
- Aldosterone antagonism: an emerging strategy for effective blood pressure lowering.
- Validity of plasma aldosterone-to-renin activity ratio in African American and
- The role of aldosterone antagonists in the management of resistant hypertension.
- Primary aldosteronism: diagnostic and therapeutic considerations.
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