| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 285 pages) : illustrations |
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Yale University Press health & wellness |
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Yale University Press health & wellness.
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| Contents |
CONTENTS -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. A Personalized Plan: The Key to a Lifelong Heart Program -- PART I: LIFESTYLE AND HEART HEALTH -- 2. Exercise Your Way to a Healthy Heart and Body -- 3. Adopting a Heart-Healthy Diet -- 4. Stress, Depression, and Other Psychological Factors -- 5. Controlling and Stopping Smoking -- PART II: THE BASICS OF LIFELONG TREATMENT -- 6. Diagnostic Tests and Procedures -- 7. Treating Your Heart Condition -- 8. Alternative and Complementary Therapies -- PART III: POPULATIONS WITH SPECIAL CONCERNS |
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9. Heart Care for Women10. Heart Disease in the Elderly -- 11. Heart Disease in Minority Populations -- 12. Young Athletes and Heart Disease -- 13. Adults with Congenital Heart Disease -- 14. Practical Advice for Travelers -- PART IV: ADVANCES IN TREATING HEART DISEASE AND HOPE FOR THE FUTURE -- 15. Recently Developed Devices and Procedures -- 16. Biologically Based Therapies -- 17. Experimental Treatments and Clinical Trials -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Further Reading and Resources -- Index |
| Summary |
Annotation More than 70 million Americans have some form of heart disease. For each of them, obtaining accurate information about the disease and the many options for dealing with it can be both empowering and life saving. In this book, cardiologist Dr. Barry L. Zaret and Genell Subak-Sharpe offer up-to-date facts about the best treatments available and an innovative approach that shows how treatment programs can be tailored to meet the needs of each unique patient. There are no short-term fixes and no one-size-fitsall programs, explain Zaret and Subak-Sharpe. Although certain characteristics are common to each form of heart disease and its treatments, these constants must be tempered against individual variables. The authors outline the constants for the full range of cardiovascular conditions, from angina and heart attacks to high blood pressure and cardiac arrhythmias. They then guide readers through the process of assessing personal variables to develop an individual treatment and life-style program. Written in a warmly reassuring style, this indispensable guide to heart care offers realistic hope and specific directions for designing a lifelong heart care program. Filled with practical advice, instructional case histories, a philosophy for controlling your health, self-tests to assess risk, and questions to ask your doctor, it looks toward an even better future for those with heart disease |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-260) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Heart -- Diseases -- Popular works.
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Heart -- Diseases -- Prevention -- Popular works
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Heart -- Diseases.
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Heart -- Diseases
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Heart Diseases
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Heart Diseases -- prevention & control
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Heart.
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MEDICAL -- Cardiology.
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Heart -- Diseases
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Heart -- Diseases -- Prevention
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| Genre/Form |
Popular works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Subak-Sharpe, Genell J., author.
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| ISBN |
9780300127409 |
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0300127405 |
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9780300108699 |
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0300108699 |
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