This book is an indispensable medical resource for understanding the body and its relationship to hypertension, preventing and treating the condition. Easy to understand, this book is one of the most complete and up-to-date guides written about hypertension and should be recommended to both health professionals and patients.

An internationally acclaimed authority, Dr. Thomas Pickering is Director of Integrative and Behavioral Cardiology Program of the Cardiovascular Institute at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He is a leading researcher and educator and the author of three clinical textbooks and more than 350 scientific articles.

Drawn from the author’s 25 years of experience in answering patients’ questions about hypertension, Good News About High Blood Pressure encourages and helps patients to take control of hypertension and their health by learning to monitor their own blood pressure and by making lifestyle adjustments, from diet and exercise to losing weight and quitting smoking.

Based on the latest studies, Dr. Pickering explains the most effective ways to take blood pressure measurements and the best conventional treatments, and even covers the pros and cons of alternative treatments such as vitamins, homeopathy, and acupuncture.

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In this book, authors Michael Smolensky, Director of the Chronobiology Center at Hermann Hospital in Houston and Lynne Lamberg, medical writer, discuss the body’s internal clock as it relates to overall health and fitness.

This highly readable book includes a wealth of practical information regarding major health issues such as exercise, fertility, medications, nutrition, sleep, and sexuality. An A to Z reference provides well-researched and referenced advice on the body’s natural internal timing as it relates to common problems such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, depression, heart disease, osteoporosis, sleep disorders, and strokes.

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''Blood Pressure Monitoring in Cardiovascular Medicine and Therapeutics provides information that will be especially useful to all who care for hypertensive patients. The various chapters provide a full account of the mounting scientific evidence that blood pressure recordings need to be obtained for proper diagnosis, prognosis, and therapy for these patients.The contributors are each directly involved in clinical studies of home and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring, as well as of the relationship of circadian variations in heart rate and bloodpressure to cardiovascular events.'' Norman M. Kaplan, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, Tx.

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