Full Description
Cardiovascular Prevention (CVP) has included important technological advances and determined improvements in morbidity and mortality since the last 70 and 60 years. However, in populations with socioeconomic limited resources even basic health preserving tools such as access to a primary care provider and basic drug therapy for diabetes mellitus, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol are not within the reach of many. There is indeed limited information on the level of CVP available in low-income countries and even in similar segments of deprived populations from high income nations. More information is needed in the prevalence and outcomes in these socioeconomic groups on the major determinants of cardiovascular disease and death: hypertension, diabetes, obesity, heart failure, coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease, and multi-organ involvement. Moreover, in many countries (and not only in those with limited socioeconomic resources) basic preventive measures are still lagging behind (weight control, healthy diet, sedentary lifestyles, smoking cessation, alcohol use). In this book, contributors will review the prevalence of these risk factors as well as discuss possible remedial measures.
In the different chapters, scientists from different countries and regions and with extensive research done in CVP in their respective fields will give their views on the status of CVP and suggest feasible remedial steps. Currently, there are many publications on the exciting and more recent developments in CVP, and the new directions undertaken (polygenic risk scores, primordial prevention, new antilipidemic and anti-inflammatory therapies, etc.). This book, in contrast, will go precisely in the opposite direction, defining the most basic and known effective CVP tools applied in the largest segment of the world's population.
This will be a valuable resource for students and professionals from different specialties, such as primary care providers, cardiologists, registered nurses, public health professionals, social workers, and economists. It will also be of interest to readers in the graduate and undergraduate levels. To ensure broad accessibility, an open access option is available for those with limited financial resources.
Contents
Chapter 1. An outlook of Cardiovascular Prevention (CVP). Cardiovascular risk factors, current resources, future promises and impact of socio-economic factors; Tomás Romero.- Chapter 2. Global Programs and Outcomes in Arterial Hypertension Management in Countries with Developing Economies; Sidney C. Smith and Kathryn Taubert.- Chapter 3. Obesity and diabetes in Latin America. The impact of socio-economic status on Programs and outcomes; Cecilia Albala and Fernando Vio.- Chapter 4. Peripheral Artery Disease in Regions with Limited Socioeconomic Resources; Kunihiro Matsushita, Maya Jean Salameh, and Matthew Allison.- Chapter 5. Global Experience of Self-Care in Cardiovascular Prevention; Barbara Riegel, Heleen Westland, Onome H. Osokpo, and Tiny Jaarsma.- Chapter 6. Environment, cardiovascular health, and local and global inequities; Pablo Ruiz-Rudolph and Karla Yohannessen.- Chapter 7. Covid 19 Pandemia, Socio-economic Status, Limitations and Outcomes Observed in the Access to Primary Health Care; Luis Fidel Avendaño, Mauricio Canals, Carolina Nazzal, and Faustino Alonso.- Chapter 8. Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Latin America. Comparative Outcomes According to Socio-economic Status; Fernando Lanas, Pamela Serón, and Cheryld Muttel.- Chapter 9. Tackling the Challenge of the Epidemic of Cardiovascular diseases: A case of Sub-Saharan Africa; Elijah Ogola, and Yubrine Moraa Gachemba.- Chapter 10. Socio-economic Factors and Cardiovascular Outcomes in Japan: Is unrestricted access to healthcare resources enough?; Neiko Ozasa and Toshiko Yoshida.
- Chapter 11. Socioeconomic Status and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in India; Ishita Gupta and Dorairaj, Prabhakaran.- Chapter 12. Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Management, and Outcomes in China; Doris Sau-Fa Yu, Sophia Fen Ye and Li Polly Wai-Chi.- Chapter 13. WHO, UN, and Sustainable Development Goals: Effective Measures for Prevention of CVD in Developing Economies; Kathryn A. Taubert and Sidney C. Smith.
