Description
Lifestyle and Heart Health and Disease provides a comprehensive evaluation of lifestyle factors that modify heart function and structure. It includes coverage of a wide range of lifestyle factors, including physical activity, alcohol, tobacco, drugs of abuse, nutrition and psychosocial factors. The book clearly presents the scientific evaluation of published research relating to general responses by scientists, physicians and patients, along with new research on the role of lifestyle in the prevention, amelioration and causation of cardiac remodeling and disease.- Explains the pathogenic mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases and the targets of therapy- Presents methods contained within the book that can be applied to the diagnosis of heart disease- Contains a concise summary with recommendations for actions and conclusions- Provides a one-stop-shopping synopsis of key ideas associated with many aspects of lifestyle
Table of Contents
Overview and Mechanisms1. Cardiovascular Diseases, Obesity and Lifestyle Changes2. Public Knowledge of Cardiovascular Risk Numbers: Contextual Factors Affecting Knowledge and Health Behavior, and the Impact of Public Health Campaigns3. Extension of Peer Support from Diabetes Management to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Management in Primary Care and Community Settings in Anhui Province, China4. Heart health and children5. Lifestyle factors and the impact on lifetime incidence and mortality of coronary heart diseaseExercise and physical activity6. Expanding the clinical classification of heart failure: Inclusion of cardiac function during exercise7. Exercise-based cardiovascular therapeutics: from cellular to molecular mechanisms8. Exercise, fitness, and cancer outcomes9. Exercise Prescription for Hypertension: New Advances for Optimizing Blood Pressure Benefits10. Exercise and Cardiovascular Disease-Emphasis on Efficacy, Dosing, and Adverse Effects and Toxicity11. The Effect of Exercise Training in Systolic and Diastolic Function12. Lifestyle and Heart diseases in Choice Experiments13. Lost in Translation: What does the physical activity and health evidence actually tell us?14. Community-Based Maintenance Cardiac Rehabilitation15. Determinants of exercise ventilatory inefficiency in heart failure with reduced or preserved ejection fraction: Application of classical and emerging integrative physiology conceptsAlcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs of Abuse16. Relationships of alcohol consumption with risks for type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease in men and women17. Lifestyle Features and Heart Disease18. Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Among People Living with HIV: A Tailored Smoking Cessation Program Treating Depression19. Factors associated with tobacco use among patients with multiple chronic conditions. Multidisciplinary visions about the lifestyle on health and cardiovascular diseaseSocial, population and family Effects on the Heart and Arteries20. Lifestyle Interventions in Patients with Serious Mental Illness21. Chocolate and its Component's Effect on Heart Disease22. Prediabetes: An Emerging Risk Factor for Coronary Artery Disease23. Mindfulness-based therapy and heart health24. Lifestyle Impact and Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Brugada Syndrome25. Social Relationships and Cardiovascular Health: Underlying Mechanisms, Life Course Processes, and Future Directions26. Trace Elements and Acute Coronary Artery Disease 27. Decompressive Hemicraniectomy for Severe Stroke: an updated review of the literature
