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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Hypertension: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Hypertension Treatment From Nature – Myth or Fact?

Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Hypertension: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Hypertension Treatment From Nature – Myth or Fact?

Aymen Shatnawi, Alison Shafer, Hytham Ahmed, Fawzy Elbarbry
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 33
ISBN13: 9781522520924|ISBN10: 1522520929|EISBN13: 9781522520931
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2092-4.ch015
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Shatnawi, Aymen, et al. "Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Hypertension: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Hypertension Treatment From Nature – Myth or Fact?." Emerging Applications, Perspectives, and Discoveries in Cardiovascular Research, edited by Ashim Malhotra and Shivani Soni, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 255-287. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2092-4.ch015

APA

Shatnawi, A., Shafer, A., Ahmed, H., & Elbarbry, F. (2017). Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Hypertension: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Hypertension Treatment From Nature – Myth or Fact?. In A. Malhotra & S. Soni (Eds.), Emerging Applications, Perspectives, and Discoveries in Cardiovascular Research (pp. 255-287). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2092-4.ch015

Chicago

Shatnawi, Aymen, et al. "Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use in Hypertension: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Hypertension Treatment From Nature – Myth or Fact?." In Emerging Applications, Perspectives, and Discoveries in Cardiovascular Research, edited by Ashim Malhotra and Shivani Soni, 255-287. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2092-4.ch015

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Abstract

Thirty six percent of people in USA and Canada regularly use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for the prevention and treatment of different diseases, including hypertension. Generally, majority of the hypertensive patients do not disclose the use of such remedies, and also health care providers do not usually ask their hypertensive patients if they use CAM. The widespread consumption of CAM in hypertension requires clear understanding of their underlying mechanism of action, efficacy and safety. This chapter will provide a comprehensive list of CAM commonly used by Americans for the prevention and treatment of hypertension as well as their postulated mechanism of action. Modulation of drug metabolizing enzymes and their safety will also be covered along with the clinical consequences, i.e. drug-herb or herb-disease interactions. patients and healthcare providers should also be careful with using CAM therapies, because not only is there minimal evidence that several CAM products work to treat hypertension, but their safety hasn't been well-established.

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