Title: Recognizing and surviving heart attacks and strokes : lifesaving advice you need now /
Authors: Turner, Glenn O.; Rosin, Mark Bruce
Publisher: University of Missouri Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Myocardial Infarction; Coronary Disease; Cerebrovascular Disorders; Myocardial infarction Popular works.; Coronary heart disease Popular works; Cerebrovascular disease Popular works; Myocardial Infarction.; Coronary Disease.
Abstract: "Drawing on fifty years of patient care and information from the Missouri Heart Program, Turner explains how to recognize all of the early warning signs of heart attacks and strokes - including little-known signs - and how important it is to seek immediate treatment to save lives and prevent damage to the heart"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: pt. 1. How to recognize and respond to the early warning signs of a heart attack. Your heart: what it is and how it functions -- What is a heart attack? -- Heart attack early warning signs: your key to survival -- Heart attack or angina? -- How to get proper--and prompt-treatment for a heart attack -- How to choose and work with a personal physician (and the patient's bill of rights) -- pt. 2. How a heart attack is treated. Thrombolysis: the heart attack treatment breakthrough -- Coronary angiograms: what are they and what do they accomplish? -- Balloon coronary angioplasty: what it accomplishes, what it does not accomplish, and how this affects your choices about treatment -- Coronary artery surgery -- pt. 3. The causes of heart attacks and other atherosclerotic diseases. Risk factors for heart attacks and other atherosclerotic diseases -- The cholesterol problem -- The triglyceride story -- Homocysteine excess: a new puzzle --^