Heart Attacks: Prevent and Survive (Overcoming common problems)

by TomSmith (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.24

  In this work, Dr Tom Smith explains honestly what doctors do and don't know about the causes of heart attacks, and shows what happens to your heart and what can go wrong. He explains the treatments you'll receive if you have a heart attack, and how to get the best rehabilitation help available.

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $4.18

  The growing rate of heart disease is a worrying development in the UK. This revised edition covers all aspects of the problems including angina, smoking, exercise and what to do after a heart attack. A new chapter covers the arguments about women and heart attacks. Heart disease is now the commonest cause of death of women in Britian. This is mainly because the risk of heart attacks rises steeply after menopause. Pre-menopausal women are partly protected by their female sex hormones and their bodies' quantity of oestrogen. Tom Smith offers the argument that hormone replacement therapy might keep heart attack rates low. He also draws on recent research which shows that doctors are slower at diagnosing and treating women of heart complaints.