How To Prevent Your Stroke

Description

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. This book contain information, such as: 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.

Reviews

... readers will likely glean insights not provided by their own doctors ... Recipes ... are among the most attractive elements of Spenceas effort and could persuade confirmed carnivores to choose vegetarian meals more often.
Publishers Weekly

Author description

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. He pioneered ultrasound measurement of carotid plaque and was one of the researchers on the team that discovered the dangerous drug interactions with grapefruit.

Table of contents

HOW TO PREVENT YOUR STROKE; Part 1: What Your Doctor Can Do; 1. What Is a Stroke?; 2. Symptoms and Signs; 3. Plaque in the Arteries (Atherosclerosis); 4. Cardiac Tests and Brain Imaging; 5. Carotid Artery Surgery and Stenting; Part 2: What You Can Do; 6. Risk Factors, Old and New; 7. How to Manage Cholesterol; 8. How to Control High Blood Pressure; 9. Adverse Drug Effects and How to Avoid Them; 10. The Benefits of Vitamins and the Dangers of Homocysteine and Grapefruit Juice.