Understanding Hypertension

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