High Blood Pressure at Your Fingertips - Hardcover

Tudor Hart, Julian

9788170219576: High Blood Pressure at Your Fingertips

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 8170219574 ISBN 13: 9788170219576

Publisher: Jain (B.) Publishers (P) Ltd ,India, 2002

The more we understand about high blood pressure, the better we can control it. In this handbook, experts in the field answer frequently asked questions and give the reader the information they need to bring their blood pressure down - and keep it down. The guide provides medically accurate answers to real-life questions asked by people with high blood pressure; plain English explanations of medical jargon; answers to questions people feel uneasy about asking their doctors; details of organizations offering information and support; and positive, practical advice on all aspects of living with high blood pressure.

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Review:

"...readable and comprehensive information for anyone with high blood pressure..." -- Dr Sylvia McLauchlan MB, ChB, MSc, FFPHM Director General, The Stroke Association

"Aimed at people with high blood pressure, this well written book is capable of informing health professionals. The question and answer format of the book gives comprehensive coverage, including discussion of the social implications of living with high blood pressure." -- Adrienne Willcox, Practice Nurse

"As someone who has had high blood pressure for 29 years I still found this book enlightening and was impressed by the fact that I felt because of the way the author had written the book that it was really speaking to me, and as a result I didn't find it wearisome reading like some information books." -- Babs Walters, Port Talbot

"Dr Julian Hart has produced an excellent book. A comprehensive question and answer format which will solve any query." -- Dr Donald McKendrick, Saga Magazine

"Exactly the right style for dealing with the sort of problems that patients regularly have. It is not only educational but extremely enjoyable." -- Professor John Swales, Director of Research and Development, Department of Health

"I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, it has covered all the questions that I and most people especially those with high blood pressure would like to ask." -- Evelyn Thomas SRN, Glyncorrwg

"It is very readable, I think pitched at just the right level" -- Dr Godfrey Fowler, Clinical Reader in General Practice, University of Oxford

"The language is pitched at just the right level so that the reader feels he has been taken into partnership with the doctor in understanding his condition." -- Dr A G Donald, Edinburgh

"This is a really excellent book and a very valuable addition to the series." -- Professor Paul Wallace, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine

About the Author:

Dr Julian Tudor Hart MB, BChir, DCH, FRCP, FRCGP has over thirty years' experience as a General Practitioner and expert on high blood pressure. He is Honorary Research Fellow at the Welsh Institute for Health and Social Care, University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd. Dr Tom Fahey MSc, MD, MFPHM, MRCGP, is a General Practitioner at Bradgate Surgery in Bristol. He is Senior Lecturer in General Practice at the University of Bristol. Professor Wendy Savage FRCOG is Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant at the London Hospital Medical College and Royal Hospitals Trust, and Visiting Professor at Middlesex University.

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