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High blood pressure, the “silent killer,” is a leading preventable cause of heart attack, stroke, and kidney disease. This guide offers health professionals a clear path to tackling this silent epidemic through advances in diagnosis, risk management, and patient-centered care.
This book explores the global challenge of high blood pressure; a condition often called the “silent killer” for its lack of symptoms and devastating impact on cardiovascular health. Characterised by persistently elevated arterial pressure, hypertension dramatically raises the risk of heart attack, stroke, heart failure, and kidney disease. Driven by a complex interplay of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors, from obesity and poor diet to stress and high salt intake, hypertension remains one of the leading preventable causes of death worldwide.
This timely volume examines the critical importance of early diagnosis through routine monitoring, the power of lifestyle modification, and the evolving role of pharmacological treatment. Highlighting advances in prevention, risk management, and patient-centered care, the book offers clinicians, students, and health professionals a clear and current guide to tackling this silent epidemic and improving long-term outcomes for patients everywhere.
What is desperately needed is the realization of the evolutionary survival value of caring for others. This book links our humanities to a scientific understanding of human destiny to provide a key to meaning. We don’t have ‘forever’ to ‘get it!’
Contemporary biology focuses on genes and molecules, overlooking the living organisms themselves. This book redresses this imbalance by providing a new theory of what organisms are, and then putting it to work by recounting the story of evolution on Earth.
Knowledge of the effects of radiation has advanced dramatically. This book describes the current state of knowledge in radiation effects, the medical uses of radiation, and radiation protection. It also considers past nuclear disasters and trends in disarmament.
This book shows how molecular biology reduces life to programs (genes) directing machinery (proteins). This approach is crucial to solving medical and agricultural problems for the future of humanity and will appeal to anyone wanting to understand “what is life?”.
This guide to cytogenetic techniques summarizes chromosomal disorders with pictures and easy-to-understand laboratory procedures. It details modern techniques for geneticists, scientists, and those aspiring to establish a molecular cytogenetic lab.
This book presents the scientific basis for why Japanese food is a source of health and longevity. It details how to produce traditional foods, the healthy substances they contain, and highlights the cultural aspects of these national dishes.
Transfer RNA (tRNA) is a molecular fossil that tells the story of the evolution of the genetic code and the origin of life. Analysis of its pre-life sequences provides clear insights into how life began and shows why tRNA is required to generate life on Earth or another planet.
Eco-neurobiology investigates how environmental factors impact the brain. This book covers recent findings on how non-genetic factors—the food we eat, stress, and traumatic events—influence our minds, from everyday function to the development of disorders.
From bacteria to human cancer cells, organisms must survive in an “acidic world.” This book summarizes current research into the molecular mechanisms that allow life to thrive in acidic environments, opening up a new way of understanding life itself.
This book studies the thermodynamic bases of protein structure and function. Moving from physical chemistry principles to current topics in biochemistry, it details protein stability, ligand interactions, and allostery in a language that is rigorous yet easy to read.
A neurinoma, or schwannoma, is a benign, slow-growing tumor arising from Schwann cells that form the sheath around nerves. It typically displaces, rather than infiltrates, the nerve. Symptoms depend on the tumor’s location. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice.
Obesity is a complex medical disease, not a lifestyle issue. As a global health crisis, it significantly increases the risk of chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease. It demands evidence-based clinical management, not moral judgment, to address its root causes.
This book is an authoritative introduction to rare cancers in the first year of life. It explores how these malignancies differ biologically and clinically, focusing on their unique genetics, the challenges of early diagnosis, and advances in treatment and family-centered care.
A neurinoma, or schwannoma, is a benign, slow-growing tumor arising from Schwann cells that form the sheath around nerves. It typically displaces, rather than infiltrates, the nerve. Symptoms depend on the tumor’s location. Surgical excision is the treatment of choice.
Obesity is a complex medical disease, not a lifestyle issue. As a global health crisis, it significantly increases the risk of chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease. It demands evidence-based clinical management, not moral judgment, to address its root causes.
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