Main description:

Includes recommendations and clinical studies on ideal drugs to reduce blood pressure with fewest side effects and optimal efficacy.

Presents a nutrition program for patients to manage high blood pressure and reduce weight which, if followed, helps lower the risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke, kidney failure, and early death.

Provides a comprehensive review of nutritional supplements to improve blood pressure control.

Written by leading experts in hypertension and nutrition, this book presents a unique and optimal approach to reducing cardiovascular problems related to high blood pressure, it serves as a guide for both health practitioners and their patients.

Contents:

Chapter 1 - Prevention of High Blood Pressure. Do Not Let This Happen to You. Actual Patient Cases of High Blood Pressure from the Hypertension Institute
Chapter 2 - The Hypertension Institute Program to Lower Your Blood Pressure: Summary
Chapter 3 - What is Hypertension and How is it Measured?
Chapter 4 - The Arteries, the Endothelium, Endothelial Dysfunction, Nitric Oxide, and Hypertension
Chapter 5 - The Three Finite Vascular Responses That Cause Hypertension: Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, and Vascular Immune Dysfunction
Chapter 6 - The Balance of Hypertension: Injury and Repair
Chapter 7 - The Hypertension Syndrome: The Hypertension Partners and Special Forms of Hypertension: White Coat Hypertension and Masked Hypertension and Gender Differences in Hypertension
Chapter 8 - How Does Excess Blood Pressure Harm Us?: Cardiovascular Diseases and Hypertension
Chapter 9 - Clinical Symptoms, Signs, Blood Tests, and Noninvasive Vascular Testing for Hypertension and Cardiovascular
Chapter 10 - Genes, Gene Expression, Environment, and Hypertension: What You Can Expect When Your Blood Pressure Is Reduced
Chapter 11 - Genetics, Hypertension, and Cardiovascular Disease
Chapter 12 - Guidelines for the Treatment of Hypertension and the Hypertension Institute Program and Approach
Chapter 13 - Beyond the Dash I and Dash II Diets
Chapter 14 - Putting Nutrition to Work to Lower Your Blood Pressure: The Practical Steps and Solutions
Chapter 15 - Treatment of Hypertension with Nutraceutical (Nutritional) Supplements
Chapter 16 - Life Style Changes and Blood Pressure: Non-pharmacologic (Drug) Treatment of High Blood Pressure
Chapter 17 - Pharmacologic (Drug) Treatment for Hypertension
Chapter 18 - Workbook: What is Your Risk for Hypertension?
Chapter 19 - Grand Summary and Conclusions