100 Questions & Answers About Kidney Disease and Hypertension
100 Questions & Answers About Kidney Disease and Hypertension

Author: Raymond R. Townsend

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2008-10-14

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 1449630898

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Every year, high blood pressure causes more than 25,000 new cases of kidney failure in the United States. 100 Questions & Answers About Kidney Disease and Hypertension offers authoritative, up-to-date, practical answers about kidney disease, end-stage kidney failure, transplants, and dialysis. The book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this condition.

Mayo Clinic 5 Steps to Controlling High Blood Pressure
Mayo Clinic 5 Steps to Controlling High Blood Pressure

Author: Sheldon G. Sheps

Publisher: Rosetta Books

Published: 2015-12-04

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 0795347782

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How to play a vital role in your own health and longevity: A handbook from“one of the most reliable, respected health resources that Americans have” (Publishers Weekly). This easy-to-use guide will help you understand the many issues related to high blood pressure and assist you in preventing it, managing it, and making essential treatment decisions. · Learn which single factor you can do the most about when it comes to influencing your blood pressure. This one step may be all it takes to lower your blood pressure and keep it under control. · How losing as little as 10 pounds may reduce your blood pressure to a healthier level—includes practical help for maintaining a healthier weight. · Discover a great alternative that may lower your blood pressure just about as much as medications—without the expense of prescriptions. · Why your blood pressure goes down if you make your heart stronger—and dozens of tips to realize this goal. · How to manage your sodium intake. · Information about medications for when changes in lifestyle aren't enough and more

Home Blood Pressure Monitoring
Home Blood Pressure Monitoring

Author: George S. Stergiou

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-10-31

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 3030230651

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Hypertension remains a leading cause of disability and death worldwide. Self-monitoring of blood pressure by patients at home is currently recommended as a valuable tool for the diagnosis and management of hypertension. Unfortunately, in clinical practice, home blood pressure monitoring is often inadequately implemented, mostly due to the use of inaccurate devices and inappropriate methodologies. Thus, the potential of the method to improve the management of hypertension and cardiovascular disease prevention has not yet been exhausted. This volume presents the available evidence on home blood pressure monitoring, discusses its strengths and limitations, and presents strategies for its optimal implementation in clinical practice. Written by distinguished international experts, it offers a complete source of information and guide for practitioners and researchers dealing with the management of hypertension.

Carbon Dioxide Angiography
Carbon Dioxide Angiography

Author: Kyung Cho

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2007-07-17

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1420016261

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With an abundance of illustrations and tables to highlight critical information, this source provides a practical approach to the use of CO2 as a contrast agent for diagnostic angiography, vascular intervention, and other interventional procedures in both adults and pediatrics. Clearly laying-out key points in the science, technique, and clinical a

Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension
Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension

Author: Matthew R. Weir

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-11-17

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1493919822

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The treatment of hypertension has become the most important intervention in the management of all forms of chronic kidney disease. Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension is a current, concise, and practical guide to the identification, treatment and management of hypertension in patients with chronic kidney disease. In depth chapters discuss many relevant clinical questions and the future of treatment through medications and or novel new devices. Written by expert authors, Chronic Kidney Disease and Hypertension provides an up-to-date perspective on management and treatment and how it may re-shape practice approaches tomorrow.

100 Questions & Answers about Menopause
100 Questions & Answers about Menopause

Author: Ivy M. Alexander

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0763727296

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This book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of menopause. The only volume available to provide the doctor's and patient's view.

Endocrine Hypertension
Endocrine Hypertension

Author: Karel Pacak

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781573314183

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Several genetic, biochemical and radiologic discoveries have impacted the management of endocrine hypertension, while surgical procedures have revolutionized treatment of patients with endocrine hypertension. This text contains the proceedings of a 2001 workshop on the topic.