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Lower Your Blood Pressure in Eight Weeks (eBook)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
416 Seiten
Random House Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-0-307-48777-3 (ISBN)
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The numbers speak for themselves. More than 50 million Americans suffer from high blood pressure--and yet despite the billions we spend on medication, the death rate from high blood pressure has risen 36 percent in the past decade. Clearly, the time has come for a radical new treatment plan. And that's exactly what Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra delivers in this invaluable new book.

All too often people with high blood pressure get the same frustrating advice from their doctors: lose some weight, lay off the salt, and fill a bunch of prescriptions. One of the nation's leading authorities on cardiovascular disease, Dr. Sinatra offers a different approach. Through an eight week plan that takes into account your lifestyle, medical history, and special needs, this book will dramatically lower your blood pressure while at the same time reducing or even eliminating your need for medications. Inside you will discover

• How to diagnose high blood pressure and get the help you need fast
• A meal-by-meal diet plan you can start following today
• The relationship between hypertension, cholesterol, heart disease, and stroke
• The special risk factors for women, the elderly, and African Americans
• Easy, enjoyable exercises you can make part of your daily routine
• How dietary supplements work and which ones are best for you
• Which medications to use--and which to avoid
• Finding the stress-reduction program that works for you

Clearly written, user friendly, grounded in science and common sense, and full of inspiring case histories and delicious recipes, Lower Your Blood Pressure in Eight Weeks is the one book that deals with all the factors involved in hypertension. This program has worked wonders with hundreds of Dr. Sinatra's patients. Now it will do the same for you!

From the Trade Paperback edition.
Learn how to lower high blood pressure with this step-by-step eight-week plan!The numbers speak for themselves. More than 50 million Americans suffer from high blood pressure—and yet despite the billions we spend on medication, the death rate from high blood pressure has risen 36 percent in the past decade. Clearly, the time has come for a radical new treatment plan. And that’s exactly what Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra delivers in this invaluable new book. All too often people with high blood pressure get the same frustrating advice from their doctors: lose some weight, lay off the salt, and fill a bunch of prescriptions. One of the nation’s leading authorities on cardiovascular disease, Dr. Sinatra offers a different approach. Through an eight week plan that takes into account your lifestyle, medical history, and special needs, this book will dramatically lower your blood pressure while at the same time reducing or even eliminating your need for medications. Inside you will discover • How to diagnose high blood pressure and get the help you need fast • A meal-by-meal diet plan you can start following today • The relationship between hypertension, cholesterol, heart disease, and stroke • The special risk factors for women, the elderly, and African Americans • Easy, enjoyable exercises you can make part of your daily routine • How dietary supplements work and which ones are best for you • Which medications to use—and which to avoid • Finding the stress-reduction program that works for you Clearly written, user friendly, grounded in science and common sense, and full of inspiring case histories and delicious recipes, Lower Your Blood Pressure in Eight Weeks is the one book that deals with all the factors involved in hypertension. This program has worked wonders with hundreds of Dr. Sinatra’s patients. Now it will do the same for you!

Maybe you're picking up this book because you've just been told you have high blood pressure and you're looking for some answers. Or maybe you were diagnosed a long time ago and you're just tired of taking all that medication. Or perhaps traditional medicine has failed to keep your blood pressure under control, and you're searching for a new approach. Well, my friend, whatever your reason for opening this book, I'm just glad you're here. High blood pressure is something you need to know about, and something you need to take seriously. I hope this book informs you and provides you with some new options. I've learned a lot about treating hypertension these last thirty years, and I've found some really novel approaches that have turned my patients' lives around, so I think I can help. It's hard to overstate the impact of high blood pressure on our health, but let's just start with the cold, hard facts: •,Fifty million Americans (one out of five) have high blood pressure. •,Hypertension is more common in men and in folks over sixty-five years of age. •,More than half of people over sixty-five are hypertensive. •,High blood pressure is more common in African Americans than in white Americans. •,Hypertension is serious because it places you at increased risk for blindness, kidney damage, heart disease, an enlarged heart, heart attack, and stroke. •,We spend more than $3 billion on antihypertensive prescription drugs, more than for medications for any other diagnosis. •,According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, 26 percent of people on medication for hypertension still have unacceptably high blood pressure. •,Despite new drugs and diagnostic techniques, the death rate from hypertension has risen 36 percent in the past decade. Clearly, traditional drug and diet therapies for hypertension are falling far short of their intended goals. I believe that part of the problem is that, as physicians, we're taught to refer to the step-by-step process of a one-size-fits-all algorithm in designing a program of care for our hypertensive patients. What's an algorithm? Basically, it's a step-by-step protocol to be followed. In treating hypertension, the algorithm goes something like this: Step one is that we are to prescribe drug A. After a month or so, if treatment A doesn't work, then we are to prescribe drug B. If B worked somewhat but we didn't get the results we were seeking, then we add in drug C, possibly juggling the dose of A or B. A typical algorithm doctors follow for treating blood pressure includes the following: a diuretic first, followed by a beta blocker or calcium channel blocker, then an ACE inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB). This is a very structured, precise system . . . but that's just not how the human body functions. Now don't get me wrong. There is an appropriate place for algorithms. They work best in an emergency situation such as a hypertensive crisis or a heart attack, when time is critical and the physician may have just met the patient and knows little about him or her. Algorithms establish the standard of care that you receive, and that's a good thing. But once the crisis is over, you want to receive a more personalized treatment plan that takes into consideration your personal needs and your own physiology. Each of us is an individual, with a unique body chemistry and physiology. An algorithm can only work so far, for I have found that blood pressure control is really more of an art than a science. As a cardiologist, I need to tune in to each individual to design a hypertension reduction program that gets at...

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.11.2008
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
ISBN-10 0-307-48777-6 / 0307487776
ISBN-13 978-0-307-48777-3 / 9780307487773
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