Description

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Mayo Clinic on High Blood Pressure offers information and tools to help you keep blood pressure from building to dangerous levels. By taking specific steps, you can live well with high blood pressure - and even keep it from ever forming. In this book, you'll learn how high blood pressure develops, what puts you at risk, how it's diagnosed and treated, and how to reduce your risk of conditions associated with it.

About the Author

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Gary L. Schwartz, M.D., is the head of the hypertension section within the Division of Nephrology & Hypertension in the Department of Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. In his 40-plus years of studying, researching, and treating people with high blood pressure, Dr. Schwartz has authored and reviewed numerous scientific papers and book chapters and has lectured around the world on topics related to blood pressure.