Product Description: Given current trends toward obesity, sedentary lifestyles, and poor diets, hypertension is increasingly becoming a disease of the young as well as the elderly, affecting about 1 billion people worldwide. Many patients, especially the younger ones, would prefer alternative treatments...read more

Product Description: In this edition of the Atlas of Hypertension, Dr. Norman Hollenberg and more than 20 leading authorities have worked together to capture the most updated and pertinent information in the field of hypertension. This new edition is a modern and complete visual library of up-to-date information on the most current pharmacologic and treatment advances in the field...read more

Product Description: The treatment of hypertension is now evolving into a decision-making process of ever greater complexity. Not only has the range of drugs available increased but so too has our knowledge of the diversity of individual patients' responsiveness to therapy, and the need to tailor their treatment with reference to a wide variety of additional factors...read more

Product Description: Hypertension continues to be one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, significantly increasing the risk of stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure and renal failure - with such a complex etiology, information on current antihypertensive therapy is extremely varied and dense...read more

Product Description: How low should we go? What drugs should we use? How do we achieve lower blood pressure goals? This how-to manual in hypertension presents concise, practical, up-to-date information on the diagnosis and management of hypertension, with emphasis on current drug therapies...read more

Presenting an excellent companion text to Brenner & Rector's THE KIDNEY. Provides a logical framework which can be utilized by practicing physicians to work up and manage their patients. Well-known authors discuss pertinent information from the main text, including pharmacological treatment, secondary hypertension, cardiovascular complications, and much more!

Various kinds of embraces and hugs are pictured, such as arm hugs, knee hugs, bear hugs, and octopus hugs, and hints are given on when to hug and what not to hug

Describes a variety of hugs, including people hugs, blanket hugs, and birthday hugs, and presents facts and hints about hugs. (view table of contents)

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Discusses the symptoms and diagnosis of high blood pressure, and suggests that exercise, improved diet, and the elimination of cigarette smoking can help reduce the risk