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How to Prevent Your Stroke

How to Prevent Your Stroke

Spence, J. David

Hardcover

Health GeneralMedical ReferenceHeart Conditions

ISBN10: 0826515363
ISBN13: 9780826515360
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Oct 27 2006
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.08
Language: English
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Life-saving advice for doctors and patients--both those at risk of a first stroke and those who have already had a mini-stroke, the #1 risk factor facing survivors

This book is written in the hope of preventing strokes, based on advice Dr. Spence has given to the more than 16,000 at-risk patients he has seen. It is divided into two sections -- What Your Doctor Can Do and What You Can Do.

Quitting smoking, following a Mediterranean diet, taking appropriate drugs to reduce blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood clotting, and appropriate surgery for severely narrowed arteries in the neck can reduce stroke by as much as 75 percent in high-risk people.

* Especially among African Americans, but in anyone with blood pressure that is difficult to control, two simple blood tests (measuring renin and aldosterone) make all the difference to successful treatment.

* A Mediterranean diet will reduce stroke by nearly half in high-risk people. Dr. Spence provides a collection of gourmet anti-stroke recipes that he prepares for himself.

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