Main description:

Understanding Hypertension, Second Edition is a popular chart featuring artwork from Anatomical Chart Company that helps to explain hypertension, its causes and effects, and treatment.

Topics features and defined:

Hypertension
Blood pressure
Types of Hypertension
Effects in blood vessels, including vascular hypertrophy and atherosclerosis
Blood flow in the heart
Effects in the heart, including left ventricular hypertrophy
Effects in the brain
Effects in the eye
Effects in the kidneys
Healthy life style changes
Drug treatments

Leonard S. Lilly, MD, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
20" x 26" heavy paper laminated with grommets at top corners ISBN 9781496369819

Contents:

Hypertension
Blood pressure
Types of Hypertension
Effects in blood vessels, including vascular hypertrophy and atherosclerosis
Blood flow in the heart
Effects in the heart, including left ventricular hypertrophy
Effects in the brain
Effects in the eye
Effects in the kidneys
Healthy life style changes
Drug treatments