Heart Owner's Handbook

by Texas Heart Institute

Overview

From one of the most respected cardiovascular research andeducation facilities in the world comes a personalized wellnessprogram for your most important asset. Take the Institute's simpletest to evaluate your heart's health and identify your individualrisk factors. Then, use the easy-to-follow, step-by-step programsto improve your overall health. Specifics include:
* Exercise What kind you should do, and how much is enough(Chapters 2 and 15)
* Weight Control What body type are you? A practical approach toattaining a healthy weight (Chapters 4 and 16)
* Managing Stress How to measure and reduce it (Chapters 7 and 18)
* Controlling High Blood Pressure How to detect it, and what to doabout it (Chapter 8)
* Lowering Your Cholesterol Count How much is too much, and how youcan control it (Chapter 9)
* Nutrition and Recipes The latest guide-lines and 31 delicious,heart-smart recipes (Chapters 3 and 21)
* The Differences Between Men's and Women's Heart Health Pregnancyand childbearing, hormones, menopause, and their relationship toheart disease (Chapter 11)
* Diagnosis and Treatment How to recognize the symptoms of heartdisease, what to ask your doctor, and the facts about heart surgeryand drug therapy (Chapters 23, 26, and 35)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471044208
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	12/21/1995
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

THE TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE, located in Houston, is one of thelargest, most respected heart research and educational facilitiesin the world. The Institute's breakthrough research in heartsurgery, transplants, diagnosis, and medical treatment has setworldwide standards in cardiology and cardiovascular surgery.

DENTON A. COOLEY, M.D., founder and Surgeon-in-Chief of the TexasHeart Institute, is internationally known for his pioneering workin cardiovascular surgery. In 1968, Dr. Cooley and his teamperformed the first successful heart transplant in the UnitedStates, and, a year later, implanted the first artificial heart ina human being.

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:

YOUR PERSONAL HEART-HEALTH PROFILE.

How Healthy is Your Heart?

HEALTHY HEART HABITS.

Good Nutrition.

Weight Control.

CONTROLLABLE HEALTH FACTORS.

Hypertension.

Cholesterol and Triglycerides.

RISK FACTORS YOU CAN'T CHANGE BUT NEED TO ASSESS.

Gender.

Age.

Genetic Factors.

YOUR PERSONAL HEART-SMART PROGRAMS.

Achieving Physical Fitness.

Managing Stress.

HEART-SMART COOKING.

Basic Tips.

Heart-Healthy Recipes.

WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG.

How to Choose and Work with Your Doctor.

The Symptoms of Heart Disease.

Diseases of the Heart Valves.

Heart Surgery.

Appendix.

Glossary.

Selected References.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

Thorough and accessible, this manual from the prestigious Texas Heart Institute answers just about every question asked by the curious heart owner-male or female, young or old, healthy or hospitalized. Further, readers are invited to call the institute's free 800 number with queries. From the foreword, by Cooley, the institute's founder and surgeon-in-chief, to the user-friendly glossary, the tone is authoritative and encouraging. The handbook format-short chapters, prominent headings, tables and lots of lists-allows easy browsing. Focusing at first on prevention, the text opens with a do-it-yourself at-risk analysis. Advice on reducing risk through lifestyle changes is pretty standard and includes specific programs for lowering dietary fat and blood cholesterol and programs for physical fitness, quitting smoking and for weight and stress management. The book's final section, which shifts from prevention to treatment, focuses on understanding the cardiovascular system, heart disease symptoms, diagnostic techniques and surgical options. An annotated resource directory is included. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

The staff of the Texas Heart Institute has organized this book around a "good health triangle": getting the best available information on how lifestyle affects the heart; following an informed plan of heart-health risk control; and ensuring that proper medical care is sought as soon and as often as needed. Methods of evaluating personal risk factors and management techniques for each are given. Heart-smart personal programs including diet, exercise, stress management, alcohol use, and abstinence from smoking and drugs are described. The cardiovascular system is explained, and information about the more common diseases is aired. A glossary and an appendix of resources for more information are included. While not as good as the Yale University School of Medicine Heart Book (LJ 3/1/92), this is comparable to Harvey Simon's Conquering Heart Disease (LJ 9/1/94) and is an excellent resource.-Janet M. Schneider, James A. Haley Veterans Hosp., Tampa, Fla.

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