Heart Disease: Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, and Heart Disease: The most important information you need to improve your health

By Adams Media

Understanding heart disease is your first step in reversing or preventing a potentially life-threatening condition. The Everything® Healthy Living Series is here to help. These concise, thoughtful guides offer the expert advice and the latest medical information you need to manage your heart disease and lead a healthy life.

Inside you’ll find useful information on the causes and effects of high blood pressure and high cholesterol and their affect on heart health. You’ll also learn about various treatment options and lifestyle changes that can help minimize your risk of heart attack.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Release date: Jun 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781440548055

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The Everything® Healthy Living Series

Heart Disease: Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, and Heart Disease

The most important information you need to improve your health

Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Avon, Massachusetts

Contents

Introduction

Blood Pressure

What Is Blood Pressure?

Why Does Blood Pressure Get High?

High Blood Pressure and Your Heart

Get to Know Your Blood Pressure

Cholesterol

What Is Cholesterol?

Separating the Good from the Bad

Cholesterol and Your Heart

Get to Know Your Cholesterol

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Introduction

For more than 10 years, millions of readers have trusted the bestselling Everything® series for expert advice and important information on health topics ranging from pregnancy and postpartum care to heart health, anxiety, and diabetes. Packed with the most recent, up-to-date data, Everything® health guides help you get the right diagnosis, choose the best doctor, and find the treatment options that work for you.

The Everything® Healthy Living Series books are concise guides, focusing on only the essential information you need. Whether you’re looking for an overview of traditional and alternative migraine treatments, advice on starting a heart-healthy lifestyle, or suggestions for finding the right medical team, there’s an Everything® Healthy Living Book for you.

Heart Disease

You may have heard of heart disease. Every day it seems a new article comes out about what heart disease does or what affects your heart. Not many people, though, know the full story.

Heart disease is known to be associated with heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular diseases. High blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes may put you at risk. By understanding and managing these risk factors, you can avoid premature death and disability.

Having these risk factors causes buildup in your arteries, the blood vessels that deliver oxygen and nutrients to your brain. When