Coronary Heart Disease: 100 Questions and Answers

Author: Hu Shan
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Publish Date: 2001-01-01
Features: As the saying goes, "Nothing is better than wealth, and nothing is better than health." This reflects the common desire of the people for a prosperous life and a healthy body, indicating that people's awareness and needs regarding health are constantly improving. However, humans are bound to eat grain and vegetables and experience seven emotions and six desires—illness is inevitable. Once illness strikes, the key is how to approach it correctly. In the past two or three decades, with the advancement of science and technology and societal progress, the medical community's understanding of human diseases has undergone profound changes. From a professional perspective, this is primarily reflected in the transformation of the medical model—from a purely biomedical model to a biopsychosocial medical model. This concept is introduced here because its transformation holds significant importance. It not only promotes the improvement of medical research and clinical treatment but, more importantly, it widely guides the public in disease prevention and even recovery. The transformation of the medical model has also driven and promoted the shift of the nursing model from a disease-centered approach to a patient-centered holistic nursing model, greatly enhancing the level of nursing care. Under the guidance of the new medical and nursing models, it is one of our important tasks as healthcare workers to extensively promote public education on medical and nursing knowledge, providing a more comprehensive guide for patients and their families to understand and address diseases correctly, engage in proactive and effective prevention, and cooperate with doctors' treatments. We must focus closely on disease recovery, conduct well-rounded care and support in diet, psychology, exercise, and other aspects in a rational manner. This book, presented in a question-and-answer format, briefly introduces the basic concepts, risk factors, diagnostic methods, and treatment principles of coronary heart disease before providing detailed answers on how to care for and maintain health in terms of psychology, exercise, diet, daily life, self-emergency care, and prevention and recovery for coronary heart disease patients. Additionally, it covers some simple treatment methods such as acupuncture, massage, and commonly used traditional Chinese medicines. As a popular science book on the care and maintenance of coronary heart disease, it emphasizes the scientificity, practicality, and feasibility of care methods, offering rich and easy-to-understand content. It can serve as a guide for coronary heart disease patients, their families, or related healthcare workers in care and health maintenance, as well as a reference for the general middle-aged and elderly population or those interested in medicine.