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Mayo Clinic on high blood pressure.

High blood pressure (portion title)

Schwartz, Gary L., (editor.). Mayo Clinic. (Added Author). Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. (Added Author).

Summary:

"Mayo Clinic on High Blood Pressure offers information and tools to help you keep blood pressure from building to dangerous levels. By taking specific steps, you can live well with high blood pressure - and even keep it from ever forming. In this book, Gary Schwartz, M.D., tells you how. You'll learn how high blood pressure develops, what puts you at risk, how it's diagnosed and treated, and how to reduce your risk of conditions associated with it."-- Amazon.com.

Record details

ISBN: 1945564105
ISBN: 9781945564758
ISBN: 194556475X
ISBN: 9781945564109
Physical Description: 191 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: Rochester, MN : Mayo Clinic Press, [2023]
Copyright: ©2023

Content descriptions

General Note:	"This book is adapted from Mayo Clinic 5 steps to controlling high blood pressure"--title page verso. "Your personal guide to managing hypertension" -- Cover. Includes bibliographical references (page 185) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Blood pressure 101. How high blood pressure develops -- Who's at risk? -- How high blood pressure is diagnosed -- Treating and preventing high blood pressure. What the numbers mean -- How diet and weight loss help -- Movement is medicine -- Avoid tobacco, limit alcohol -- Taking the right medication -- Special concerns and conditions -- Living well with high blood pressure.