Preventive Cardiology Insights Into the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Foody, Joanne Micale (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2006.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Series: Contemporary Cardiology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Medicine & Public Health.

With the gradual transition from the technology-driven, intervention-oriented perspective of the last decade to a new, preventive, molecular-based perspective, Joanne Foody, MD, has amassed new preventive measures for use in everyday practices in this new edition of Preventive Cardiology. This new e...

Table of Contents:

• New Paradigms in the Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease
• The Unstable Plaque
• Endothelial Function and Insights for Prevention
• Inflammation and Infection in Coronary Artery Disease
• Risk Factors And Their Management in Coronary Artery Disease
• Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Coronary Artery Disease
• High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, Triglycerides, and Coronary Artery Disease
• Management of Hypertension
• Diabetes Mellitus, Hyperinsulinemia, and Coronary Artery Disease
• Exercise in the Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease
• Obesity and Coronary Artery Disease
• Tobacco as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor
• The Implications of Mental Stress for Cardiovascular Disease
• Women and Coronary Artery Disease
• Strategies for Prevention
• Subclinical Atherosclerosis
• Exercise Testing and Risk Assessment
• Aspirin and Antiplatelet Agents in the Prevention of Complications of Coronary Artery Disease
• Pharmacoeconomics of Cardiovascular Medicine
• Innovative Models for the Delivery Preventive Cardiovascular Care.