| MEDIA ADVISORY
Contact: Phone: (212) 821-0560
Jonathan Weil
E-mail: jweil@mail.med.cornell.edu
Peggy Sung
E-mail: pes2001@med.cornell.edu
A NEW APPROACH TO UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING HYPERTENSION
WHAT: Publication of the new paperback version of Healing Hypertension:
A Revolutionary New Approach
WHO: Samuel J. Mann, MD, hypertension specialist at the New York
Weill Cornell Medical Center
WHY: Healing Hypertension is a pioneering book that:
Presents a dramatically new approach to understanding the mind/body
connection of hypertension, and
Integrates a biomedical and mind/body approach to optimize management
of hypertension.
The book addresses several major issues:
The epidemic of overdiagnosis and unnecessary drug treatment of hypertension.
The failure of traditional mind/body views to adequately explain or
manage hypertension, while the important role of repressed ("hidden") emotions
has remained unexplored.
Better guidelines for selecting the drug best suited for the individual
patient.
Not just a theory, the book is based on published studies as well as
actual case histories of Dr. Mann's patients.
WHEN: Dr. Mann is available for print and broadcast interviews at your
convenience — in studio or at New York Weill Cornell. A patient may
also be available.
FOR MORE INFORMATION, visit Dr. Mann's Web site at
http://www.healinghypertension.com
"Internists and primary-care physicians who see patients with unexplained
hypertension need to consider the possibility that psychological factors
may be the cause -- perhaps, especially when patients least suspect it."
--Dr. Samuel Mann
© 2000 NewYork-Presbyterian
Hospital
Weill Medical College of Cornell
University
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