Product Description: It's hard to believe you're dying when you feel fit and fine ... but millions of Americans are harboring unaware a condition that can rob them or kill them outright--hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, the most common form of heart disease. Even when hypertension is diagnosed, treatment is usually based on drugs, most with dismal side effects, expensive, and of limited usefulness. Really effective treatment of hypertension calls for getting at the cause--which, Dr. Eric Braverman has found, often relates to poor diet, elevated cholesterol, excess weight, stress, and biochemical imbalances. With Dr. Braverman's 30- to 90-day program, patients have lowered their blood pressure and, in some case, even reversed the course of existing heart disease!

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant (April 21, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1442974052
• ISBN-13: 978-1442974050
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,018,562 in Books

The Amazing Way to Reverse Heart Disease Naturally (EasyRead Comfort Edition): Beyond the Hypertension Hype: Why Drugs are Not the Answer [LARGE PRINT] (Paperback)

Product Description: In The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Heart Attacks, Dr. Curtis Rimmerman, one of America’s foremost authorities on heart health, reveals important information for patients and their families on how to avoid a heart attack or survive and thrive after one. Inside you’ll find advice to help you:

• Understand the risk factors and minimize the likelihood of having a heart attack.· Discover the best possible methods for managing heart problems, using medical, surgical, interventional, and rehabilitative strategies.
• Get the facts about diet and exercise and the dramatic impact they can have on your condition. · Learn about the latest breakthrough studies, and what those discoveries mean for the future of preventing heart attacks.
• Find inspiration and encouragement from the stories of people who have survived heart attacks and improved their health.

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; 1 edition (May 5, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1427799687
• ISBN-13: 978-1427799685
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The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Heart Attacks (Cleveland Clinic Guides) (Paperback)

Product Description: When treating hypertension, physicians now have a huge range of drugs from which to choose in formulating a management strategy. This accessible guide helps the busy clinician access specific information on available drugs as components of an integrated care plan.

The Handbook of Hypertension is a comprehensive review of the evidence base for hypertension and associated disease, providing tables, figures, charts, and summaries of principal findings from clinical studies on hypertension – putting vital information within reach of the busy practitioner.

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (May 11, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405182504
• ISBN-13: 978-1405182508
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #455,760 in Books

Handbook of Hypertension (Paperback)

Product Description: In The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Heart Failure, Dr. Randall Starling, one of the foremost authorities on heart health, provides authoritative advice to help people survive heart failure and enjoy a good quality of life. This comprehensive resource gives readers the cutting-edge medical guidance Dr. Starling offers his patients, including: 

• Insight into what causes heart failure
• The latest breakthrough studies – and what those discoveries mean for the future of this disease
• Reliable guidance on diagnostic tests and treatment options
• Personal stories of those who have triumphed over the disease
• Plus, advice on how to live well with a chronic illness

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan Publishing; 1 edition (June 2, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1607140748
• ISBN-13: 978-1607140740
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
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The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Heart Failure (Cleveland Clinic Guides) (Paperback)

Product Description: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) continues to challenge our health care system in the complexity of presentation and the ever increasing number of patients exhibiting signs and symptoms of an acute coronary syndrome. Written by leading experts, Short Stay Management of Chest Pain provides scientific and clinical insights on the management of patients who arrive at the hospital with a presentation consistent with a potential acute coronary syndrome. Focusing on the cardiology aspects of chest pain, Short Stay Management of Chest Pain is a valuable tool for acute care physicians, nurses, and hospital administrators devoted to caring for this population. Short Stay Management of Chest Pain details the remarkable improvements in diagnostic accuracy and improved patient outcomes for patients presenting with suspected acute coronary syndromes.

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Humana Press; 1 edition (June 24, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1603279474
• ISBN-13: 978-1603279475
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,038,240 in Books

Short Stay Management of Chest Pain (Contemporary Cardiology) (Hardcover)

Product Description: "The Widow-Maker Heart attack at age 48" was written by a "miracle" survivor of a massive heart attack. He provides hope and a pathway to recovery for other heart attack patients and their loved ones facing the same daunting life changing, unexpected experience. His entire first year of life after suffering his heart attack; actually dying six times, is chronicled in this book combined with his ever changing physical and psychological feelings. In writing this book it was the author's goal to help other families and loved ones facing the same devastating unfamiliar territory as his family faced on March 31, 2008. His goal was to provide timeless support for the loved ones of the heart attack victim so that they might better be able to understand what the patient is going through and what they, as loved ones might do to help the heart attack victim better deal with their life changing experience.

• Hardcover: 140 pages
• Publisher: AuthorHouse (May 6, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1438962800
• ISBN-13: 978-1438962801
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.6 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #386,099 in Books

The Widow-Maker Heart Attack at age 48: Written by a Heart Attack Survivor for a Heart Attack Survivor and Their Loved Ones (Hardcover)

Product Description: This important revision presents the accumulated knowledge of its highly-regarded author, Dr. Abraham Rudolph, who is internationally recognized as one of the world's leading pioneers in the field of Pediatric Cardiology. Fully revised and updated, the book includes sections considering the changes in pathophysiology with growth into adulthood and the effects of various treatment approaches. The author explains the physiology of normal fetal circulation and the effects of congenital cardiac lesions, with particular reference to the interactions between the lesions and fetal cardiovascular development.

• Hardcover: 544 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 3 edition (May 11, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1405162457
• ISBN-13: 978-1405162456
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #76,465 in Books

Congenital Diseases of the Heart: Clinical-Physiological Considerations (Hardcover)

Product Description: With the success of organ transplantation and the declining number of heart beating cadaver doctors, the number of patients awaiting a transplant continues to rise. This means that alternative sources of donors have been sought, including donors after cardiac death. Such donors sustain rapid damage to their organs due to ischaemia, and as a consequence, some organs do not work initially and some none at all. The proportion of such transplants has increased dramatically in recent years--25% of kidney transplants in the UK were from such donors in 2006, highlighting how much progress has been made.

• Hardcover: 360 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (May 20, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0199217335
• ISBN-13: 978-0199217335
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
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• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,087,275 in Books

Organ Donation and Transplantation after Cardiac Death (Hardcover)

Product Description: Heart failure is an increasingly common occurance in the patient population despite better treatment and management options available to clinicians. The focus is now increasingly turning towards prevention to reduce the rising incidence in addition to more efficacious treatment regimens.

• Paperback: 266 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (April 30, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1848821840
• ISBN-13: 978-1848821842
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 4.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,476,133 in Books

Manual of Heart Failure Management (Paperback)

Product Description: Over the past twenty years, under the impetus of technological innovations and the drive for cost-effectiveness, stress echocardiography has developed into a well-established technique that is versatile, patient friendly, and relatively inexpensive. This growth has been reflected in the increasing size of past editions of Stress Echocardiography, all of which have been praised for their clarity and scope. This fifth edition of the book has been extensively revised and updated to reflect the further progress achieved over the past few years. The early chapters place the technique within a historical context and describe its pathophysiological basis.

• Hardcover: 612 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 5th ed. edition (May 28, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3540764658
• ISBN-13: 978-3540764656
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #764,097 in Books

Stress Echocardiography (Hardcover)