How to Prevent Your Stroke,9780826515360

How to Prevent Your Stroke

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780826515360
ISBN10: 0826515363
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-10-31
Publisher(s): Vanderbilt Univ Pr
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Summary

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.” In a (high in monosaturated fat) nutshell , 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. This approach --with the anti-stroke” meals Dr. Spence provides recipes for--is the powerful medicine for stroke prevention that patients and their physicians need.

Author Biography

J. David Spence, MD, one of the world's leading experts in stroke prevention, is Professor of Neurology and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Western Ontario and Director of the Stroke Prevention and Atherosclerosis Research Centre at the Robarts Research Institute.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Glossary of Medical Terms xiii
Generic and Trade Drug Names xvii
Part 1: What Your Doctor Can Do
1. What Is a Stroke?
3(8)
2. Symptoms and Signs
11(17)
3. Plaque in the Arteries (Atherosclerosis)
28(8)
4. Cardiac Tests and Brain Imaging
36(24)
5. Carotid Surgery and Stenting
60(15)
Part 2: What You Can Do
6. Risk Factors, Old and New
75(23)
7. How to Manage Cholesterol
98(22)
8. How to Control High Blood Pressure
120(18)
9. Adverse Drug Effects and How to Avoid Them
138(17)
10. Vitamins, Homocysteine, and Grapefruit Juice
155(8)
A Guide to Healthy Meals
Gourmet Vegetable-Based Cooking
163(6)
Recipes 169(40)
References 209(6)
Index 215

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