Mayo Clinic 5 Steps to Controlling High Blood Pressure: Your Personal Guide to Preventing and Managing Hypertension

by Sheldon G. Sheps MD

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780795347788
Publisher:	Mayo Clinic Press
Publication date:	10/01/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	45,865
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Mayo Clinic first took root in farm fields near Rochester, Minn., in the late 1800s. It grew from the medical practice of a country doctor, William Worrall Mayo, and the partnership of his two sons, William J. and Charles H. Mayo—affectionately known as Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie. The brothers’ innovative ideas and tireless work in learning and creating new surgical techniques attracted international attention. Physicians from around the world came to watch the Mayo brothers perform surgery. The Mayo brothers invited other doctors to join them, forming teams of medical experts. Today, Mayo Clinic—one of the world’s oldest and largest multi-specialty group practices—comprises more than 45,000 physicians, scientists, nurses and other staff at its three locations in Rochester, Minn., Jacksonville, Fla., and Scottsdale, Ariz., and its regional community-based health care practices.