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Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women

Concepts, Findings, Future Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Kristina Orth-Gomér

    1. Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

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  2. Neil Schneiderman

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA

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  3. Viola Vaccarino

    1. Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health Emory University, Atlanta, USA

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  4. Hans-Christian Deter

    1. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

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  • Uniquely focuses on psychosocial stress and cardiovascular disease in women
  • Explores differences between incidence of heart disease in men and women
  • Interdisciplinary, including chapters coauthored by cardiologists and internists
  • Based on twenty years of research since the 1991 Stockholm Female Coronary Risk study

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Epidemiology and Risk Factors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Enhancing Women’s Heart Health from a Global Perspective

      • Sarah P. Wamala
      Pages 3-6

    3. Epidemiology and Standard Risk Factors in Relation to Psychosocial Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease

      • Annika Rosengren, Karin Manhem
      Pages 7-11

    4. Coronary Heart Disease in Women: Evolution of Our Knowledge

      • Nanette Kass Wenger
      Pages 13-25

    5. Psychosocial Risk Factors for Coronary Heart Disease in Women: The Stockholm Studies of Women’s Hearts

      • Kristina Orth-Gomér
      Pages 27-40

    6. Depression and Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms Involved in this Association

      • Diana A. Chirinos, Neil Schneiderman
      Pages 41-61

    7. Psychosocial Risk Factors in Women: Special Reference to Depression and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

      • Viola Vaccarino
      Pages 63-86
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About this book

Not long ago, it was assumed that coronary heart disease mainly--or only--affected men. Now that CHD is recognized as a leading killer of women as well as men, numerous research studies have been made of its diverse presentations in women, causal factors, and possibilities for prevention and treatment.

The expert contributions to Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women span the results of this cross-disciplinary awareness. This progressive resource takes a three-dimensional approach to its subject, focusing on epidemiology and risk factors for heart disease in women, the psycho- and neurobiology of stress and coronary disease, and promising clinical interventions. Chapters identify and analyze multiple intersections of social, biological, and psychological factors in affecting women's heart health, from the social dimensions of depression to genetic/environmental interactions to the demands of balancing work and family. These wide-ranging findings will assist and motivate professionals in choosing and creating interventions, developing appropriate prevention strategies, and reducing gender-based disparities in health care. Among the topics covered:

  • Enhancing women's heart health: a global perspective.
  • Coronary heart disease in women: evolution of our knowledge.
  • Gender observations on basic physiological stress mechanisms in men and women.
  • Sleep as a means of recovery and restitution in women.
  • LifeSkills training: benefiting both genders, for different reasons.
  • Gender considerations in psychosocial-behavioral interventions for coronary heart disease.

In particular this book will be helpful for cardiologists and other clinicians who may ask themselves why patients do not seem to make rational choices. "Why do patients not follow the advice they are offered?" is a common complaint. The role of psychosocial stress for patient compliance and adherence can be traced throughout the volume. It is emphasized in the chapters on psychosocial interventions along with other tangible and conceptual suggestions and experiences with psychosocial stress and life style change. Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women offers a deep practical level of understanding of this epidemic to help expand the work of health and clinical psychologists, sociologists, cardiologists, primary care physicians, and epidemiologists.

Reviews

“The book Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Concepts, Findings, Future Perspectives presents a thorough overview of the research related to heart disease and women. … This book appears to be the only book dedicated to the subject of cardiovascular disease in women, and, therefore, it offers the most comprehensive view of the area. … book is a stellar contribution to work on cardiovascular health in women, and it would be a valuable resource for professionals in this field.” (Elaine A. Burke, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 60 (46), November, 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    Kristina Orth-Gomér

  • Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, USA

    Neil Schneiderman

  • Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health Emory University, Atlanta, USA

    Viola Vaccarino

  • Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany

    Hans-Christian Deter

About the editors

Kristina Orth-Gomér MD, PhD, is professor and director of the Unit for Social Factors and Health at the Karolinska Institutet. She holds a clinical appointment at the Seraphimer Hospital, Karolinska Institutet. From 1991, with cardiology colleagues, she has conducted the Stockholm Studies on Psychosocial Risk factors in Women, the first comprehensive, longitudinal study on women, stress and cardiovascular disease. Viola Vaccarino, MD is professor and chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Emory University School of Medicine. Neil Schneiderman, PhD is the James L. Knight Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Miami. He has been the principal investigator of multiple NIH programs sponsored by the NHLBI including the Miami Field Center of the Hispanic Community Health Study,the Miami Clinical Center of the enhancing Recovery in Coronary Heart Disease (ENRICHD) randomized clinical trial, and a 35 year duration institutional research training grant on biobehavioral bases of cardiovascular disease. Hans-Christian Deter, MD is a professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Humboldt University in Berlin. His research focuses on development of new psychosomatic outpatient treatment procedures for physically ill patients; course control studies on therapeutic outcome after outpatient and inpatient psychosomatic treatment; and physiologic studies on the differentiation of treatment results in asthma and coronary heart disease patients.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women

  • Book Subtitle: Concepts, Findings, Future Perspectives

  • Editors: Kristina Orth-Gomér, Neil Schneiderman, Viola Vaccarino, Hans-Christian Deter

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09241-6

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09240-9Published: 03 December 2014

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34808-7Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-09241-6Published: 20 November 2014

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 305

  • Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Health Psychology, Cardiology, Gender Studies, Internal Medicine

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