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Preventive Cardiology

Insights Into the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Joanne Micale Foody

    1. Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven

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Part of the book series: Contemporary Cardiology (CONCARD)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. New Paradigms in the Pathophysiology of Coronary Artery Disease

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Unstable Plaque

      • JoAnne Micale Foody, Steven E. Nissen
      Pages 3-17

    3. Endothelial Function and Insights for Prevention

      • Eric H. Lieberman, Margarita R. Garces, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez
      Pages 19-28

    4. Inflammation and Infection in Coronary Artery Disease

      • Michael A. Lauer
      Pages 29-45

  3. Risk Factors And Their Management in Coronary Artery Disease

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
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    2. Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Coronary Artery Disease

      • JoAnne Micale Foody
      Pages 49-80

    3. High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, Triglycerides, and Coronary Artery Disease

      • JoAnne Micale Foody
      Pages 81-92

    4. Management of Hypertension

      • Gregory M. Singer, John R Setaro
      Pages 93-112

    5. Diabetes Mellitus, Hyperinsulinemia, and Coronary Artery Disease

      • Byron J. Hoogwerf
      Pages 113-143

    6. Exercise in the Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease

      • Gordon G. Blackburn
      Pages 145-160

    7. Obesity and Coronary Artery Disease

      • Kristine Napier
      Pages 161-178

    8. Tobacco as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor

      • Robyn Bergman Buchsbaum, Jeffrey Craig Buchsbaum
      Pages 179-195

    9. The Implications of Mental Stress for Cardiovascular Disease

      • Brendon L. Graeber, Aaron Soufer, Matthew M. Burg, Robert S. Soufer
      Pages 197-215

    10. Women and Coronary Artery Disease

      • JoAnne Micale Foody
      Pages 217-235

  4. Strategies for Prevention

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237
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    2. Subclinical Atherosclerosis

      • Rahman Shah, JoAnne Micale Foody
      Pages 239-264

    3. Exercise Testing and Risk Assessment

      • Christopher R. Cole, Michael S. Lauer
      Pages 265-283

    4. Aspirin and Antiplatelet Agents in the Prevention of Complications of Coronary Artery Disease

      • Andrew I. MacKinnon, Scott A. Moore, Steven R. Steinhubl
      Pages 285-307

    5. Pharmacoeconomics of Cardiovascular Medicine

      • Melanie Oates, William F. McGhan, Ron Corey
      Pages 309-324
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About this book

Preventive cardiology is a fast moving field that places emphasis on the prevention and treatment of coronary disease. Preventive Cardiology: Insights Into the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease, Second Edition is intended for clinical cardio- gists, internists, primary care providers, and allied health care professionals who wish to extend their knowledge and expertise in the rapidly expanding field of preventive car- ology. It is the mission of this book to provide clinicians with the understanding and tools necessary to implement prevention in their daily practices. Recent changes in the delivery of health care in the United States and abroad, in conjunction with new scientific evidence supporting the role of preventive strategies in the maintenance of cardiovascular health, have focused new attention and efforts on the field of cardiovascular disease prevention. The field of cardiology is thus making a gradual transition from the technology-driven, intervention-oriented perspective of the last several decades to a new, preventive, molecular-based perspective. As fresh evidence amasses that preventive measures produce a considerable decrease in the incidence of both primary and secondary cardiac events and mortality, there is growing, widespread acknowledgment that health care providers from all arenas must initiate preventive str- egies in the management and care of their patients.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"Each chapter quotes the major studies carried out in this field and clearly illustrates the results achieved, using tables, figures, and, noteworthy, complete references. ... Equally exact and evidence-based is the analysis of the pharmacological management of cardiovascular diseases; this entirely original chapter compares the pharmaeconomics of cardiovascular medicine against that of an intervention-based management, and underlines the effectiveness of a multidisciplinary model for risk factor prevention and control. ... The editorial form is clear, the contents and index complete..." - Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Disease

"Dr. Foody authored or coauthored three of the eighteen chapters, and has sufficiently edited the other chapters to insure a continuity of presentation and a minimum of duplication....The pathophysiology chapters on plaque instability and endothelial function and the clinical chapters on women and coronary artery disease and on exercise testing and risk assessment are clear, informative, and presented in a format that is interesting and clinically valuable." - Preventive Cardiology

"Preventive Cardiology: Strategies for the Prevention and Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease is a well edited, informative, and up-to-date treatment of issues of importance and clinical relevance. The selection of topics and authors, and the editing of the chapters, have resulted in an interesting and useful book. Dr. JoAnne Micale Foody is to be congratulated, and her book added to the short list of valuable texts for clinicians on preventive cardiology." -Preventive Cardiology

From the reviews of the second edition:

"This is a multiauthored reference on the pathogenesis, diagnosis, and management of and preventive strategies for coronary artery disease. … Cardiologists, primary care providers, trainees, and midlevel practitioners caring for those at risk for coronary artery diseaseare the intended audience. … The graphs and tables, which include risk factor modification guidelines, are useful for quick reference during daily practice. This book can be used daily by the intended audience for primary and secondary prevention of coronary artery disease." (Gary A Daniel, Doody’s Review Service, March, 2008)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven

    Joanne Micale Foody

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Preventive Cardiology

  • Book Subtitle: Insights Into the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease

  • Editors: Joanne Micale Foody

  • Series Title: Contemporary Cardiology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-096-6

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Humana Press 2006

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58829-521-7Published: 01 July 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-61737-617-7Published: 09 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-59745-096-6Published: 03 November 2007

  • Series ISSN: 2196-8969

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-8977

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: 360

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cardiology

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