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Fast Facts: Hypertension
Date Added: 27/02/2012
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Description
Hypertension is a real and serious issue in health care. This 96-page eBook comprehensively explains this topic; practically instructs health care responses, and cites a plethora of evidence. Flowing from that, the eBook thoroughly explains the science and history of glaucoma; as well as more practical aspects such as management, treatment and prevention. It also includes many easy-to-read diagrams, tables and subparagraphs so that the reader can efficiently consume this information.
Topics:
- The dangers of raised blood pressure
- Causes
- Investigation
- When to treat
- How to treat
- Special patient groups
- Uncontrolled hypertension
'Raised blood pressure is the biggest cause of death and disability in the world. Treatment trials have uniformly demonstrated major reductions in cardiovascular disease (i.e. stroke, heart failure and heart attack). Thus, the need for more effective management of hypertension is obvious, even in developed societies such as the UK and the USA, where still today fewer than one-half of hypertensive individuals are being adequately treated. As a result, many hundreds of people are dying, or suffering unneccessarily, from strokes, heart failure and heart attacks...'
Author
Graham A MacGregor and Norman M Kaplan
