Full Description
Yoga in Cardiovascular Disease and Rehabilitation: Integrating Complementary Medicine into Cardiovascular Medicine highlights recent research, clinical trials and experiments on yoga and meditation as a preventative measure against various major cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease and metabolic syndromes.
Chapters discuss yoga's role in ameliorating cardiac dysfunction and current knowledge on the effects of yoga on the brain, emotion, and other factors that initiate and perpetuate vascular inflammation. Cellular, genetic, and molecular effects of yoga based on experimental evidence are also covered in detail, providing readers with the latest research on the effects of yoga and meditation in heart diseases.
This book also explores current knowledge gaps in yoga research to facilitate further research and is a comprehensive reference to scientists and clinicians interested in yoga's health effects, including preventing and treating diseases.
Contents
1. Introduction to Heart Disease
2. Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases and Yoga as an Adjunctive Preventative and Therapeutic Entity
3. Mechanism of Yoga in Cardiovascular Diseases
4. Effect of Yoga on Genes
5. Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Need for Integrative Medicine to Fill the Gap
6. Neurobiology of Yoga
7. Yoga for Primary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease
8. Yoga for Secondary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease
9. The Role of Yoga in the Management of Hypertension
10. Yoga and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in African American and Hispanic Populations
11. Yoga in Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
12. Yoga for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
13. Yoga-Based Lifestyle as a Tool to Prevent Complications of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
14. The Role of Yoga in Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
15. Effects of Yoga on Metabolic Syndrome
16. Yoga in the Treatment of Heart Failure
17. Yoga and Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System
18. Yoga and Atrial Fibrillation
19. Role of Yoga in Stroke: Prevention, Management, and Rehabilitation
20. Role of Yoga in Vascular Dementia and Other Dementic Conditions of the Elderly
21. Cardiovascular Risk in Chronic Inflammatory Arthritis: Evidence-Based Yoga
22. Yoga for Depression as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease
23. Yoga for Anxiety and Psychosomatic Stress as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease
24. Diet Therapy and Lifestyle Based on Yoga for Diabetes Mellitus
25. Diet Therapy for Dyslipidemia: A Review of Clinical Trials
26. Plant-Based Diet and Cardiovascular Health
27. Cardiac Rehabilitation and Yoga
28. Yoga for Post Cardiac Surgery Rehabilitation
29. The Role of Yoga in Palliative Care Settings
30. Yoga for Addiction Management
31. Role of Yoga in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in the Indian Population
