Heart care for life : developing the program that works best for you / Barry L. Zaret, Genell J. Subak-Sharpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zaret, Barry L.

Contributor:

Subak-Sharpe, Genell J.

Series:

Yale University Press Health & Wellness

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heart--Diseases--Popular works.

Heart.

Heart--Diseases--Prevention--Popular works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

More than 70 million Americans have some form of heart disease. For each of them, obtaining accurate information about the disease and the many options for dealing with it can be both empowering and life saving. In this book, cardiologist Dr. Barry L. Zaret and Genell Subak-Sharpe offer up-to-date facts about the best treatments available and an innovative approach that shows how treatment programs can be tailored to meet the needs of each unique patient. There are no short-term fixes and no one-size-fits all programs, explain Zaret and Subak-Sharpe. Although certain characteristics are common to each form of heart disease and its treatments, these constants must be tempered against individual variables. The authors outline the constants for the full range of cardiovascular conditions, from angina and heart attacks to high blood pressure and cardiac arrhythmias. They then guide readers through the process of assessing personal variables to develop an individual treatment and life-style program. Written in a warmly reassuring style, this indispensable guide to heart care offers realistic hope and specific directions for designing a lifelong heart care program. Filled with practical advice, instructional case histories, a philosophy for controlling your health, self-tests to assess risk, and questions to ask your doctor, it looks toward an even better future for those with heart disease.

Contents:

Front matter

Content

List of Abbreviations

Preface

Introduction

1. A Personalized Plan: The Key to a Lifelong Heart Program

2. Exercise Your Way to a Healthy Heart and Body

3. Adopting a Heart-Healthy Diet

4. Stress, Depression, and Other Psychological Factors

5. Controlling and Stopping Smoking

6. Diagnostic Tests and Procedures

7. Treating Your Heart Condition

8. Alternative and Complementary Therapies

9. Heart Care for Women

10. Heart Disease in the Elderly

11. Heart Disease in Minority Populations

12. Young Athletes and Heart Disease

13. Adults with Congenital Heart Disease

14. Practical Advice for Travelers

15. Recently Developed Devices and Procedures

16. Biologically Based Therapies

17. Experimental Treatments and Clinical Trials

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Further Reading and Resources

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-260) and index.

ISBN:

9780300127409

0300127405

OCLC:

1024037200