Full Description
The Atlas of Cardiovascular Risk Factors provides a succinct overview and an update of current knowledge of the major causative factors for heart disease and other forms of cardiovascular disease and strategies to reduce the risk associated with those factors. It is intended to help physicians to understand how to use individual risk factor data to develop an integrated strategy that they believe will be the most successful for lowering risk in an individual patient.
Contents
Historical Perspective on Heart Diseases and Worldwide Trents.- About Risk Factors.- Coronary Heart Disease Risk: Origins, Factors, and Utility.- Screening Tests.- Nonmodifiable Risk Factors: Gender, Race, and Family History.- Cigarette Smoking/Cessation.- Hypertension Management.- Dyslipidemia.- Diabetes/Diabetes Prevention.- Obesity and Weight Loss.- Physical Inactivity/Exercise.- Alcohol Consumption.- Postmenopausal Estrogen Therapy.- Diet and Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease.- Cardiac Psychology/Behavioral Cardiology:Psychosocial Factors and Heart Disease.- Novel Risk Factors: Focus on High-sensitivity C-reactive Protein.- Genetic Markers.- Aspirin in the Prevention of Heart Disease.- Secondary Prevention.- Childhood Risk Factors Predict Adult Cardiovascular Risk and Strategies for Prevention: The Bogalusa Heart Study.- Risk Factors in the Elderly.- Coronary Risk Factors in Women.- Multiple Intervention Studies in Secondary Prevention.- Community Based Prevention in Cardiovascular Disease.- Primary Prevention of First Stroke.- Cost Effectiveness of Prevention.-Summary of Recommendations.
