Mayo Clinic on high blood pressure /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, Minn. :
Mayo Clinic,
c1999
Rochester, Minn. : ©1999 |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
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Table of Contents:
- Understanding High Blood Pressure
- The basics of blood pressure
- What the numbers mean
- What's high blood pressure?
- Symptoms
- Complications
- Are You at Risk?
- Essential high blood pressure
- Risk factors
- Secondary high blood pressure
- Prevention
- Diagnosis and Treatment
- Measuring your blood pressure
- Receiving a diagnosis
- Getting an evaluation
- Deciding on treatment
- Becoming an active partner
- Controlling Your Weight
- Weight and blood pressure
- Overweight vs. obesity
- Finding your healthy weight
- Steps to successful weight loss
- Getting More Active
- Physical activity and blood pressure
- Activity vs. intensity
- What kind of activity?
- How much activity?
- A 6-step fitness plan
- Avoiding injury
- Eating Well
- The DASH study
- Basic principles of DASH
- How to eat with DASH
- A closer look at three important minerals
- A fresh approach to shopping
- Healthful cooking techniques
- Eating well when eating out
- Putting it all in perspective
- The Shakedown on Salt
- Sodium's role
- Sodium sensitivity
- DASH-Sodium study
- Current recommendation
- The controversy
- What you should do
- Your sodium guide
- Tobacco, Alcohol and Caffeine
- Tobacco and high blood pressure
- Alcohol and high blood pressure
- Caffeine and high blood pressure
- Managing Stress
- What is stress?
- The stress response
- Stress and blood pressure
- Strategies for relieving stress
- Medications and How They Work
- The different types
- Diuretics