The African American Women's Guide to a Healthy Heart

by Anne Taylor

Book Overview

This important and informative work addresses the causes behind cardiovascular health disparities between black women and their while counterparts including poor diet, inadequate access to quality... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0971606765
• ISBN13: 9780971606760
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Hilton Publishing
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great and easy advise!

With so much out there about women's health it is difficult to know where to go. This book is excellent. It truly illuminates the importance of heart health and how to achieve it. The contributing authors represent myriad of fields in healthcare from cardilogy to public health. One of the contributing authors, Dr. Jennifer B. Campbell, provides wonderful chapters on how to best utilize community resources and talking points to cover on every doctor's visit. That is invaluable beacuse many of us forget!

A down-to-earth, plain-terms, personal care resoure

Professor of Medicine Anne L. Taylor and The Association of Black Cardiologists present The African American Woman's Guide To A Healthy Heart, a health guide directed especially toward an ethnic group that is more likely to suffer heart disease and stroke at younger ages, and 69% more likely to die from them. Individual chapters address determining one's personal heart disease and stroke risk factors, how to prevent cardiovascular disease, how to recover and improve one's health if one has already survived heart disease or a stroke, how to work effectively with healthcare professionals, healthy living habits to adopt, and much more. Though written especially for African-American women the basic recommendations for taking care of one's health and heart is directly relevant to readers of all genders and ethnic backgrounds. The African American Woman's Guide To A Healthy Heart is down-to-earth, plain-terms, personal care resoure.