High blood pressure
Book - 2024
"Maintain healthy blood pressure with timeless wisdom and new breakthroughs in prevention and treatment... High Blood Pressure For Dummies explains all you need to know about blood pressure--and what to do when it gets too high. High blood pressure can lead to serious complications, but with lifestyle changes and medication, it's easily treatable. This jargon-free, compassionate book walks you through the necessary changes to help lower blood pressure and live a healthy life. You'll be well equipped to determine if you're at risk and consider the medical consequences of hypertension. From there, develop a successful treatment plan and choose the right foods for you. With this Dummies guide, you can learn to prioritize yo...u and your health. Learn what hypertension is, what causes it, and how it can be prevented and treated. Improve your quality of life and live longer by focusing on a healthy blood pressure. Understand your doctor's recommendations and discover diet and lifestyle factors that you can control. Find out about new research on hypertension causes, treatments, and genetic influences. This new edition of High Blood Pressure For Dummies is great for people with high blood pressure, their caregivers, and anyone with a family history who wants to better understand the condition."
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Hoboken, NJ :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2024]
- Language
- English
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- Other Authors
- Edition
- 3rd edition
- Item Description
- Previous edition: 2007.
Includes index. - Physical Description
- xvii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781394224944
- Introduction
- About This Book
- Foolish Assumptions
- Icons Used in This Book
- Beyond the Book
- Where to Go from Here
- Part 1. Understanding High Blood Pressure
- Chapter 1. Introducing High Blood Pressure
- Understanding Your Cardiovascular System
- Measuring Your Blood Pressure and Understanding the Measurement
- Looking at the Risk Factors for High Blood Pressure
- Focusing on the Consequences of High Blood Pressure
- Lowering High Blood Pressure with Different Treatments
- Evaluating High Blood Pressure in Children, Women, and Older People
- Chapter 2. Detecting High Blood Pressure
- Looking at the Gauge Used to Measure Blood Pressure
- Taking Your Blood Pressure Correctly
- Understanding the Numbers
- Lowering Blood Pressure Too Much
- Getting the Right Assessment
- Reviewing your history
- Having a physical exam
- Looking at lab tests
- Chapter 3. Determining Whether You're at Risk
- Reviewing Important Aspects of High Blood Pressure
- Understanding the effect of genetics
- Estimating the effects of ethnicity
- Seeing how medication can affect blood pressure
- Changing Your Lifestyle to Prevent High Blood Pressure
- Chapter 4. Reviewing the Causes of Resistant High Blood Pressure
- Identifying the Signs and Symptoms of Resistant High Blood Pressure
- Considering Chronic Kidney Disease and High Blood Pressure
- Navigating Narrowed Renal Arteries
- Diagnosing renal artery stenosis
- Treating blocked renal arteries
- Homing in on Hormones That Cause Hypertension
- Finding an epinephrine-producing tumor
- Detecting a tumor that produces aldosterone
- Recognizing Cushing's syndrome
- Evaluating Other Causes of Resistant High Blood Pressure
- Coarctation of the aorta
- Too much or too little thyroid hormone
- Sleep apnea
- Part 2. Considering the Medical Consequences of High Blood Pressure
- Chapter 5. Protecting Your Heart from Heart Disease
- Introducing the Mighty Heart: Pumping and Relaxing
- Blocking Blood Flow to the Heart Muscle
- Analyzing Coronary Artery Disease
- Understanding angina and heart attack
- Getting a diagnosis
- Considering treatment options
- Developing Congestive Heart Failure
- Noticing important signs and symptoms
- Understanding what your doctor will look for
- Determining the underlying cause of heart failure
- Treating congestive heart failure
- Recognizing and Treating Important Risk Factors
- Reducing high cholesterol
- Quitting smoking
- Controlling diabetes
- Stepping up physical activity
- Chapter 6. Caring for Your Kidneys
- Examining the Role of Your Kidneys
- Filtering
- Making hormones
- Understanding Chronic Kidney Disease and Common Causes
- Defining chronic kidney disease
- Diagnosing chronic kidney disease
- Staging and treating chronic kidney disease
- Coping with End-Stage Renal Disease
- Dialysis
- Kidney transplant
- Chapter 7. Keeping Your Brain Intact
- Understanding the Causes of Strokes
- Atherosclerosis
- Cerebral embolus
- Brain hemorrhage
- Preventing Stroke
- Understanding the risk factors you can't change
- Modifying the risk factors you can
- Reducing stroke risk with medications
- Thinking F.A.S.T. When Suspecting a Stroke
- Utilizing Brain Imaging
- Understanding Treatment Options for Stroke
- Recovering from a Stroke
- Regaining function
- Working with rehabilitation specialists
- Chapter 8. Eyeing Your Blood Pressure
- Eyeballing the Anatomy of the Eye
- Getting Hyper about Hypertensive Retinopathy
- Part 3. Preventing and Treating High Blood Pressure
- Chapter 9. Choosing Foods That Lower High Blood Pressure
- DASHing Down Your Blood Pressure
- Leading up to DASH
- Proving the value of DASH
- Getting with the program
- Reducing your salt consumption with DASH
- Maximizing the Mediterranean Diet to Lower Your Blood Pressure
- Seeing the Value of a Plant-Based Diet Plan
- Losing Weight with Nutrition
- Calculating your ideal weight
- Determining your daily caloric needs
- Adjusting your DASH nutrition plan
- Consulting with a Nutritionist
- Chapter 10. Keeping Salt and Sugar Out of Your Diet
- Making the Connection between Salt and High Blood Pressure
- Proving the connection between sodium and high blood pressure
- Looking at salt sensitivity
- Lowering your salt intake
- Connecting Sugar and High Blood Pressure: The Role of Insulin
- Chapter 11. Avoiding Tobacco, Alcohol, and Caffeine
- Playing with Fire: Tobacco and High Blood Pressure
- Examining the extent of the problem
- Understanding the consequences of tobacco use
- Reducing your exposure to secondhand smoke
- Avoiding all forms of tobacco
- Quitting tobacco successfully
- Tapping into resources
- Linking Alcohol to High Blood Pressure
- Cutting Back on Caffeine
- Knowing how much is too much
- Considering caffeine's health consequences
- Recognizing the gains in giving up caffeine
- Avoiding the beans, chocolate, energy drinks, and soda
- Chapter 12. Lowering Blood Pressure with Exercise
- Recognizing the Benefits of Exercise
- Preparing to Begin an Exercise Program
- Getting a checkup
- Personalizing your exercise program
- Using the right equipment
- Exercising to Lose Weight
- Exercising to Gain Strength
- Lowering Your Blood Pressure with Complementary Therapies
- Yoga
- Meditation
- Biofeedback
- Chapter 13. Taking Medications to Lower Your Blood Pressure
- Examining Classes of Blood Pressure Medications
- Diuretics: Medications that reduce fluid buildup
- Other first-line medications
- Medications that act on the nervous system
- Vasodilators: Medications that open the blood vessels
- Choosing the Right Medication
- Reviewing basic principles of medication dosing
- Personalizing the medication choice
- Selecting another medication when necessary
- Adhering to the medication prescription
- Recognizing Common Medication Side Effects
- Identifying Brand Names
- Chapter 14. Considering Important Clinical Studies of High Blood Pressure
- SPRINT: Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial
- STEP: Strategy of Blood Pressure Intervention in the Elderly Hypertensive Patients
- ACCORD: Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes
- ADVANCE: Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease
- Part 4. Taking Care of Special Populations
- Chapter 15. Handling High Blood Pressure in Older Adults
- Evaluating Cognitive Ability
- Assessing Blood Pressure in an Older Person
- Recognizing baseline high blood pressure
- Considering resistant high blood pressure
- Examining the medications that raise blood pressure
- Improving Nutrition to Lower Blood Pressure
- Assessing your nutritional status
- Following the DASH nutrition plan
- Reducing salt intake
- Modifying Your Lifestyle to Lower Blood Pressure
- Taking Prescription Medications to Lower Blood Pressure
- Avoiding Dangerous Falls in Blood Pressure
- Chapter 16. Handling High Blood Pressure in Children
- Measuring Blood Pressure and Interpreting the Results
- Taking a blood pressure reading on tiny arms
- Interpreting the results of the measurement
- Considering the Causes of Elevated Blood Pressure
- Surveying hereditary influences
- Factoring in weight
- Evaluating other possible causes
- Initiating Treatment with Lifestyle Changes
- Using Medications
- Chapter 17. Treating High Blood Pressure in Women
- Connecting High Blood Pressure and Salt Sensitivity in Women
- Understanding High Blood Pressure and Pregnancy
- Knowing what causes high blood pressure during pregnancy
- Dealing with high blood pressure after delivery
- Using Hormone Treatments If You Have High Blood Pressure
- Oral contraceptives
- Hormone replacement therapy
- Part 5. The Part of Tens
- Chapter 18. Ten Simple Ways to Prevent or Reduce High Blood Pressure
- Know Your Blood Pressure
- Know Whether You Have Resistant High Blood Pressure
- Adopt the DASH Diet
- Cut Out the Caffeine
- Reduce the Amount of Salt in Your Diet
- Give Up Tobacco and Alcohol
- Start an Exercise Program
- Practice Mind-Body Techniques
- Take Your Medication
- Avoid Medications That Raise Blood Pressure
- Chapter 19. Ten (or So) Myths about High Blood Pressure
- High Blood Pressure Is Inevitable as You Get Older
- The Treatment Is Worse Than the Disease
- You Must Restrict Your Life Because You Have High Blood Pressure
- You Only Need Treatment If You Have High Systolic Blood Pressure
- If You Have High Blood Pressure, You'll Have to Take Medication Forever
- You Can Stop Treatment after a Heart Attack or Stroke
- You Should Avoid Exercise If You Have High Blood Pressure
- If You're Feeling Good, You Can Stop Taking Your Blood Pressure Meds
- High Blood Pressure Can't Be Controlled
- People with High Blood Pressure Are Just Nervous or Anxious
- Older People Don't Need to Be Treated
- High Blood Pressure Is Less Dangerous in Women
- Appendix: Resources
- Index