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Everything You Want to Know About High Blood Pressure: A Q&A Guide
100 Questions & Answers About High Blood Pressure For Dummies contains everything you've been wanting to know about what causes hypertension and how it can be treated with medication and lifestyle changes. This budget-friendly book gets right to the point, with short, easy-to-absorb sections, so you can focus on getting the information you need to stay healthy. Read all the Q&As or jump around as needed to expand your knowledge. You'll learn about the risk factors, medical consequences, and treatment plans for hypertension, plus foods that can lower your blood pressure and keep you on the path to a long life. Get answers to your most pressing questions including:
What is high blood pressure?
What causes high blood pressure?
What are the symptoms of high blood pressure?
How can high blood pressure affect your health?
For anyone at risk for or diagnosed with hypertension, as well as those helping someone else through it, 100 Questions & Answers About High Blood Pressure For Dummies is an easy place to start.
Contents
Introduction 1
Part 1: Understanding High Blood Pressure 3
CHAPTER 1: Defining High Blood Pressure 5
CHAPTER 2: Identifying the Causes and Risk Factors for High Blood Pressure 13
CHAPTER 3: Diagnosing High Blood Pressure 27
Part 2: Managing High Blood Pressure 35
CHAPTER 4: Lifestyle Approaches to Managing High Blood Pressure 37
CHAPTER 5: Dietary and Nutritional Interventions for High Blood Pressure 47
CHAPTER 6: Medications for High Blood Pressure 63
CHAPTER 7: Special Situations: Pregnancy, Children, and Menopause 73
Part 3: Complications and Health Impacts 79
CHAPTER 8: Cardiovascular Complications 81
CHAPTER 9: Other Health Impacts 85
CHAPTER 10: Long-Term Outcomes 99
CHAPTER 11: Research and Emerging Treatments 103
Index 107
