Heart Health: Answers at Your Fingertips - Softcover

Jackson, Dr Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859591574 ISBN 13: 9781859591574

Publisher: Class Health, 2018

Synopsis

Heart disease can brutally interrupt our happiness and enjoyment of life; coronary heart disease remains the single most common cause of premature death in the UK. In Heart Health, expert cardiologist Dr Graham Jackson takes the reader on a voyage of discovery and explanation in his clearly written and good-humoured text, which explains what heart disease is all about. This book includes advice on healthy living, giving up smoking, HRT, sex & relationships and much more. This book is all about you and your heart: how to keep your heart healthy, or - if it has been affected by heart disease in some way - how to make it as strong as possible. Introduction -How to use this book -Questions for your doctor or practice nurse 1. How your heart works Anatomy of the heart How your heart works What can go wrong with my heart? 2. Coronary artery disease Risks of smoking Risks of high blood pressure Risks of high cholesterol levels Other risk factors for coronary heart disease Women and coronary heart disease 3. Angina Symptoms Tests Treatment Other treatments for angina 4. Heart attacks Symptoms Heart attack - the event Recovery period Emotional problems after a heart attack Treatment Helping yourself 5. Heart Failure Causes Symptoms Tests Treatment 6. Palpitations Types of palpitations Self-help Tests Treatment Atrial fibrillation Other abnormal heartbeats Blackouts 7. Valve disease Causes Symptoms Tests Treatment Infection 8. Sex and the heart Questions you may find difficult to ask your doctor 9. Diet Food types and eating healthily Losing weight 10. Exercise Why bother? How much? Safety Choosing your exercise Glossary Appendix 1: Practising what I preach Appendix 2: Useful addresses and websites Appendix 3: Useful publications Appendix 4: Guideline desirable weight in adults The joy of this book is that it is not a medical textbook but a book giving information about the practical problems of heart disease and its prevention or treatment. It is easy reading, dip in and out, with a format of questions and answers - questions we all want to ask followed by well thought out answers. Highly recommended.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Graham Jackson FESC, FACC, FRCP is Honorary Cardiology Consultant, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London. He is a Fellow of both the European Society of Cardiology and the American College of Cardiology, and Chairman of the Sexual Dysfunction Association.

Review

'Busy doctors, or dissatisfied heart patients, couldn't do better than invest in Dr Jackson's latest book.... It contains 250 pages devoted to questions that patients ask and answers the doctor wishes he had given if only he'd had the time to think how best to put them.' - Dr Thomas Stuttaford, The Times. 'Those readers who want to know more about the various treatments for heart disease will be much enlightened.' - Dr James Le Fanu, The Daily Telegraph. 'Coronary heart disease is the biggest single killer of men and women in this country. There is, therefore, no better time to promote good health, and Dr Jackson's books is most welcome.' - Frank Dobson, former Secretary of State for Health. 'An excellent book, which I regularly recommend to patients. I think it is eminently sensible in its question and answer format.' - Dr Henry Purcell, Co-editor, British Journal of Cardiology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Class Health
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1859591574
• ISBN 13: 9781859591574
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 348