RESEARCH GUIDE: HYPERTENSION
ASHLEY PHAM
08/01/2008
CONTENTS:
- OVERVIEW
- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADING
- KEYWORDS
- REFERENCE SOURCES
- PRINT BOOKS
- PERIODICALS
- WEBSITE RESOURCES
OVERVIEW:
Hypertension is high blood pressure where blood vessels from the arteries carry oxygenated blood from the heart to the body tissue. When the heart is beating it is called systolic, but when the heart is at rest it is called diastolic. In order for people to find out if they have hypertension or not, they would need to measure their blood pressure. Blood pressure is being measured in millimeters of mercury (mm Hg). For example, if a person heart beat the pressure is 120 and when the heart are at rest the pressure is 80, and then it would be written as 120/80 mm Hg. This research guide will help people get a better understanding about hypertension.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Blood Pressure, High
High Blood Pressure
Vascular Hypertension
Intracranial Hypertension
Pulmonary Hypertension
KEYWORDS
High Blood Pressure
Essential Hypertension
Portal Hypertension
Pathophysiology of hypertension
Silent Disease
No Boolean’s were used for my topic because I just type up Hypertension, and it came up the different types that is related to hypertension.
REFERENCE SOURCES:
This Reference Source will help people get a better understanding on Hypertension and how they will gain more knowledge on what kind of differences does blood pressure have.
Title: The World Book encyclopedia.
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Chicago : World Book, c2008.
Call Number: R031 WOR
Title: Encyclopedia of Health and Aging
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc. Pub Date: 04-13-2007.
Call Number: R613.043 803 ENC
Title: Stedman’s Medical Dictionary 28th Edition
Author: Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
Primary Material: Book
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c DEC2005
Call Number: R610.3 STE
PRINT BOOKS:
The following print resources provide information on the how to take action on high blood pressure which is relating to the hypertension topic.
Sheps, Sheldon G. Mayo Clinic on High Blood Pressure. F A Thorpe Pub Ltd. March 2003.
Braverman, Eric R. Hypertension and Nutrition. Keats Pub. cMay 1996.
Divine, Jon G. Action Plan for High Blood Pressure. Human Kinetics. Nov 2005.
PERIODICAL:
“Summer & hypertension; Summer is often associated with hypertension problems…”
“Systolic pressure is all that matters”
“Quick study: hypertension”
The sources from ProQuest are magazine and journal which all related to my topic of Hypertension because it have provide information on ways to prevent high blood pressure, and the different type of hypertension when the heart is beating or relaxing.
By looking up the periodical for your topic you would go to ProQuest in the library database. Then type in your topic under the subject and click search so it can bring up many type of resource that is related to your topic. The type of target for these articles is for adults in the middle age and older. On these article they all have something in common where they talk about Hypertension/High Blood Pressure.
WEBSITE RESOURCES:
The National Institutes of Health and Clinical Excellence is a website that contain a lot of information on this topic. The site contains clinical guideline that was developed by the Newcastle Guideline Development and Research Unit.
http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf/cg034quickrefguide.pdf
Medline Plus is a website that contain Medical Encyclopedia on different medical. It also provide information on the topic of hypertension. This site contain service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health; where it is the first to achieve this important distinction for online health information and services.
