Full Description
This book is the first authoritative and comprehensive volume presenting basic, translational and clinical research demonstrating the importance of primordial, primary and secondary prevention starting in childhood for the reduction of adult cardiovascular diseases. Chapters will various childhood cardiovascular risk factors that predict adult cardiovascular and other health conditions. The book will also cover lessons learned from longitudinal cardiovascular cohorts such as the Bogalusa Heart Study, the Young Finns Study, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. In addition, the book covers adolescent cohorts from low and middle-income countries.
Primordial Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease will serve as the premier textbook for preventive cardiology across the lifespan and will serve as a valuable resource for physicians, residents, fellows and medical students in cardiology, primary care, and health promotion and disease prevention.
Contents
Section 1: Evidence for the Importance of Primordial Prevention.- Chapter 1. Pre-conception Health and Future CVD.- Chapter 2. Biological Programming in the Perinatal Period: animal studies.- Chapter 3. Biological Programming in the Perinatal Period: human studies.- Chapter 4. Environmental Factors Increasing Risk for Cardiometabolic Disorders.- Chapter 5. Childhood Factors Predicting Adult Cardiometabolic Risk.- Chapter 6. Childhood CV Risk Factors Predicting Adult Sub-clinical Target Organ Damage.- Chapter 7. Childhood CV Risk Factors Predicting Adolescent and Young Adult Target Organ Damage.- Chapter 8. Childhood CV Risk Factors Predicting Adult CV Events.- Chapter 9. Primordial Prevention in the Young and reduction of CV Risk Factors and Subclinical Disease in Adulthood.- Chapter 10. Lifestyle Interventions to Reduce CV Risk in the Young.- Chapter 11. Pharmacologic Therapy to Prevent CV Disease in High-Risk Youth.- Section 2: Lessons Learned From Longitudinal CV Cohorts.- Chapter 12. Bogalusa Heart Study.- Chapter 13. Young Finns Study.- Chapter 14. Cardiovascular Determinants of Adult Risk.- Chapter 15. Muscatine Heart Study.- Chapter 16. Special Turku Risk factor Intervention Project.- Chapter 17. Coronary Artery Risk Detection in Appalachian Communities.- Chapter 18. National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health.- Chapter 19. Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.- Chapter 20. Atherosclerosis Risk in Young Adults.- Chapter 21. Generation R.- Chapter 22. Kangwha Study.- Chapter 23. Adolescent Cohorts from Low and Middle-income Countries.- Chapter 24. Synthetic Cohorts.
