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Mayo clinic on high blood pressure

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Other Authors: Sheps, Sheldon G.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Rochester, Minn. : Mayo Clinic, c2002.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Hypertension.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is high blood pressure?
  • Are you at risk?
  • Diagnosis and treatment
  • Controlling your weight
  • The shakedown on salt
  • Eating well
  • Getting more active
  • Tobacco, alcohol and caffeine
  • Managing stress
  • Staying in control
  • Medications and how they work
  • Special concerns and conditions.
  • 1. What is high blood pressure
  • Consider the numbers
  • The basics of blood pressure
  • What the numbers mean
  • What's high blood pressure?
  • Signs and symptoms
  • Complications
  • 2. Are you at risk?
  • Essential high blood pressure
  • Secondary high blood pressure
  • 3. Diagnosis and treatment
  • Measuring your blood pressure
  • Making a diagnosis
  • Getting an evaluation
  • Medical history
  • Physical examination
  • Routine tests
  • Deciding on treatment
  • Guidelines for treatment
  • Becoming an active partner
  • 4. Controlling your weight
  • Weight and blood pressure
  • Overweight vs. obesity
  • Finding your healthy weight
  • Steps to successful weight loss
  • 5.The shakedown on salt
  • Sodium's role
  • Sodium sensitivity
  • DASH-sodium and TONE studies
  • Current recommendation
  • The controversy
  • What you should do
  • Your sodium guide
  • 6. Eating well
  • The DASH study
  • Basic principles of DASH
  • How to eat with DASH
  • Three important minerals
  • A fresh approach to shopping
  • Healthy cooking techniques
  • Get the skinny on fatty acids
  • Eating well when eating out
  • Putting it in perspective
  • 7. 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
  • 8. Tobacco, alcohol and caffeine
  • Tobacco and high blood pressure
  • Alcohol and high blood pressure
  • Caffeine and high blood pressure
  • 9. Managing stress
  • What is stress?
  • The stress response
  • Stress and blood pressure
  • Strategies for relieving stress
  • 10. Staying in control
  • Home monitoring
  • Using your medications wisely
  • Getting regular follow-up care
  • Reaching your goal
  • Your family and friends
  • 11. Medications and how they work
  • The different types
  • Diuretics
  • Beta blockers
  • ACE inhibitors
  • Angiotensin II receptor blockers
  • Calcium antogonists
  • Alpha blockers
  • Central-acting agents
  • Direct vasodilators
  • Emergency medications
  • Combination drug therapy
  • Finding the right medication
  • Gene research
  • 12. Special concerns and conditions
  • Issues for women
  • High blood pressure in children
  • High blood pressure in older adults
  • High blood pressure and ethnic groups
  • High blood pressure and other conditions
  • Difficult-to-control high blood pressure
  • High blood pressure emergencies
  • Menus with DASH.

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