Speaking of High Blood Pressure (An Invaluable Guide to Help You Detect This Silent Killer)
Book Specification
Item Code: | NAM326 |
Author: | Hanns P. Wolff |
Publisher: | Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. |
Language: | English |
Edition: | 2011 |
ISBN: | 9788120717725 |
Pages: | 126 (8 B/W Illustrations) |
Cover: | Paperback |
Other Details | 8.5 inch x 5.5 inch |
Weight | 170 gm |
Book Description
High blood pressure or hypertension is the leading cause of death in our world. It is called the "silent killer" as there are no typical symptoms.
This practical guide, written by an experienced medical professional, explains why you must take preventive steps even if you feel perfectly all right. A fatal stroke or heart attack is twice as great for people with untreated hypertension as for those with normal blood pressure.
Read about what keeps your heart ticking and how high blood pressure puts an enormous strain on your heart.
Detect the "silent killer" before it gets you!
This book is for you if you have been told by your doctor that you have high blood pressure. It explains why you must immediately take preventive steps even if you feel perfectly all right. An elevated pressure may be a warning signal of a serious cardiovascular disorder in its first stage or an established chronic condition. If, and only if, high blood pressure is detected and treated in time can serious consequences like stroke, heart attack, and kidney failure be prevented.
This volume in the Medical Adviser Series tells you how you can find out whether you have high blood pressure, what your doctor can do about it, and what you yourself can do to bring it back to normal. Your doctor can help you work out a treatment plan to bring the condition under control. As a rule this plan will put you on regular medication, seek to isolate and eliminate the factors in your life that constitute a health hazard-your individual risk factors-and, if indicated, propose changes in your habits and your diet.
In its early stages 'high blood pressure is an asymptomatic disease, -i.e., a disease without overt symptoms,-yet 25% of all those who have it die as a result of it. However, if you have high blood pressure and follow the advice given here you will be able to lead a normal, productive life.
Hanns Peter Wolff, M.D. was born in Tsingta, China, in 1914. He studied medicine in Breslau and Munich, Germany, and now is the director of the Ist Department of Medicine of the University of Mainz. He has lectured or held visiting professorships at the universities of Dallas, Boston, Palo Alto, New York, Rochester, and Minneapolis. He is a member of many international medical societies, the co-founder and deputy chairman of the German League for the Prevention of High Blood Pressure, and chairman of the Scientific Council of the German Federal Chamber of Medicine.
High Blood Pressure-the Silent Danger | 11 | |
1 | Threats to Our Cardiovascular Svstem | 15 |
Cardiovascular Death | 15 | |
What Do We Mean by "Risk Factors"? | 15 | |
Risk factors | 16 | |
High Blood Pressure as a Risk Factor | 17 | |
Other Risk Factors | 18 | |
The Adverse Effects of Risk Factors | 23 | |
What About Your Risk Factors? | 24 | |
Checklist for Risk Factors: Normal and High Levels | 26 | |
2 | Blood Pressure and the Cardiovascular System | 27 |
The Organism Blood Circulation Serves | 27 | |
The Structure and Function of the Cardiovascular System | 28 | |
The Arteries | 30 | |
The Veins | 32 | |
The Heart | 32 | |
The Heart Action | 34 | |
Blood Pressure and Its Functions | 35 | |
When Does Blood Pressure Go Up, and When Does It Go Down? | 36 | |
How Blood Pressure is Regulated | 39 | |
Systolic and Diastolic Pressure | 41 | |
When Is Blood Pressure in the Normal Range and When Is It Elevated? | 42 | |
3 | The Causes of High Blood Pressure | 45 |
Elevated Blood Pressure Is Not Necessarily a Sign of Disease | 45 | |
Blood Pressure and Old Age | 47 | |
Chronic High Blood Pressure (Hypertension) | 48 | |
How High Blood Pressure Originates | 50 | |
Causal factors | 50 | |
Precipitating mechanisms | 52 | |
The Long-term Effects and Complications of Chronic Hypertension | 53 | |
4 | How to Recognize High Blood Pressure | 59 |
Complaints and Symptoms | 60 | |
Some Important Indicators | 62 | |
A checklist of complaints, symptoms and indicators | 64 | |
5 | The Diagnostic Program | 67 |
Determining the Extent of the Disease | 67 | |
Isolating the Cause | 68 | |
The Search for Additional Risk Factors | 68 | |
The Basic Examination | 69 | |
Special Tests | 71 | |
The Doctor-Patient Talk | 72 | |
6 | How to Succeed in the Treatment of High Blood Pressure | 75 |
Figures that speak for themselves | 75 | |
Individual Treatment Plans and Methods | 77 | |
Doctor-Patient Cooperation | 78 | |
7 | The Doctor's Role | 79 |
Long-range Drug Therapy | 79 | |
Antihypertensive Drugs | 80 | |
Drugs that lower blood pressure by excretion of salt | 82 | |
Drugs that lower blood pressure levels directly | 83 | |
Side Effects | 85 | |
Initial discomfort | 85 | |
Specific side effects and their warning signals | 86 | |
Heart Drugs | 87 | |
Regular Follow-up Visits | 88 | |
8 | What the Patient Must Do | 91 |
How to Live with High Blood Pressure | 91 | |
Routine | 92 | |
Making Adjustments | 93 | |
Your Job or Profession | 93 | |
How to Spend Your Leisure Time | 94 | |
Moderate Physical Exercise Is a Must | 95 | |
Recommended Sports | 95 | |
Knowing When to Stop | 96 | |
Non-advisable Physical Exercises and Sports | 97 | |
Vacations | 97 | |
Coping with Stress in Daily Life | 99 | |
Losing Weight by Eating Sensibly | 100 | |
Be calorie-conscious | 103 | |
Medical recommendations for weight reduction | 105 | |
Low-salt diet | 106 | |
Special diets | 106 | |
What you Can-and Cannot-Eat and Drink | 107 | |
Drug Therapy | 108 | |
How to Take Your Own Blood Pressure | 108 | |
Patients and Their Spouses | 110 | |
9 | Things You Must Also Know | 113 |
Hypertension and Driving | 113 | |
High Blood Pressure-Contraception- Pregnancy | 114 | |
The "Hypertensive Patient's I.D." | 115 | |
The 12 basic rules for hypertensives | 116 | |
10 | The Future Outlook | 117 |
Postscript for Doctors | 119 | |
Index | 123 |