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Published:
September 4, 2007

High Blood Pressure For Dummies

Overview

Maintain healthy blood pressure with timeless wisdom and new breakthroughs in prevention and treatment

High Blood Pressure For Dummies explains all you need to know about blood pressure—and what to do when it gets too high. High blood pressure can lead to serious complications, but with lifestyle changes and medication, it’s easily treatable. This jargon-free, compassionate book walks you through the necessary changes to help lower blood pressure and live a healthy life. You’ll be well equipped to determine if you’re at risk and consider the medical consequences of hypertension. From there, develop a successful treatment plan and choose the right foods for you. With this Dummies guide, you can learn to prioritize you and your health.

  • Learn what hypertension is, what causes it, and how it can be prevented and treated
  • Improve your quality of life and live longer by focusing on a healthy blood pressure
  • Understand your doctor’s recommendations and discover diet and lifestyle factors that you can control
  • Find out about new research on hypertension causes, treatments, and genetic influences

This new edition of High Blood Pressure For Dummies is great for people with high blood pressure, their caregivers, and anyone with a family history who wants to better understand the condition.

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About The Author

Richard W. Snyder, DO, is a board-certified internist and nephrologist who has been involved in treating hypertension since 2004. He is also a medical educator and served as a program director for an internal medicine residency program. Dr. Snyder is coauthor of Medical Dosage Calculations For Dummies.

Dr. Alan L. Rubin was the original author of High Blood Pressure For Dummies.

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The first step to dealing with high blood pressure is understanding your blood pressure measurement — those over and under numbers. When you know what your blood pressure is, you need to know what to do next. The good news is, you may be able to prevent high blood pressure or reduce your blood pressure by making some lifestyle changes.

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The first step to dealing with high blood pressure is understanding your blood pressure measurement — those over and under numbers. When you know what your blood pressure is, you need to know what to do next. The good news is, you may be able to prevent high blood pressure or reduce your blood pressure by making some lifestyle changes.
Blood pressure isn't the same during a pregnancy as before the pregnancy. The pregnant woman's body goes through many changes to provide the best possible environment for the growing fetus. The mother-to-be must sustain the placenta, the umbilical cord (the connection between the mother and the fetus), and the fetus itself with nutrition and fluid.
Plenty of drugs are on the market that actually raise blood pressure on their own or because they block the action of a drug that lowers blood pressure. If you can possibly avoid them, do so. Sometimes, however, the problem that makes you need the other drug is so severe that you can't avoid it. You then have to use the drugs for high blood pressure to overcome the blood pressure elevation of the essential drug.
Salt, which is made up of 40 percent sodium and 60 percent chloride, is critical to your life. You can't live without it. Sodium helps to maintain your blood's water content, serves to balance the acids and bases in your blood, and is necessary for the movement of electrical charges in the nerves that move our muscles.
Caffeine is a chemical compound in the leaves, seeds, and fruits of more than 63 plant species, but it most commonly comes from coffee and cocoa beans, cola nuts, and tea leaves. But coffee isn't the only source of caffeine — a can of cola contains 45 mg, green tea has 30 mg, an ounce of chocolate has 20 mg, and even Anacin comes in at 65 mg for two tablets.
Your blood pressure can be taken with a mercury blood pressure gauge, an aneroid manometer, or an electronic device for measuring the blood pressure, as long as the device has been recently calibrated and validated. With rare exceptions, blood pressure gauges found in supermarkets or pharmacies aren't properly maintained and shouldn't be used.
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