Coronary heart disease epidemiology : from aetiology to public health
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Coronary heart disease epidemiology : from aetiology to public health
(Oxford medical publications)
Oxford University Press, 2005
2nd ed
- : pbk
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide affecting millions of people in both developed and developing countries. The dual aims of this book are to review the well-established and emerging risk factors in coronary heart disease and to apply this knowledge to public health approaches to disease prevention. The book includes authoritative accounts of studies within a single population and international studies, important areas of methodological development, trials to test preventive strategies, and the application of epidemiological and other knowledge to the development of public health policy for the prevention of widespread disease. It is an all-encompassing work containing contributions from the world authorities in the field. The book is divided into four sections. The introduction reviews advances in the understanding of, and the current status, of risk factors for CHD. Section 2 looks at recent global trends and emerging patterns of CHD morbidity and mortality in several countries, and includes chapters on work done under the auspices of WHO on the global burden of disease in relation to smoking and blood pressure.
Section 3 focuses on advances in understanding the aetiology of CHD with each chapter focused on a particular risk factor. Section 4 explores measures of prevention and intervention in terms of public health policy with specific examples from around the world.
Table of Contents
- SECTION I: INTRODUCTION
- 1. Coronary heart disease epidemiology: from aetiology to public health
- 2. Contribution of epidemiology to understanding coronary heart disease (reprinted from the 1st edition)
- 3. Established major coronary risk factors: historical overview
- 4. Current status: six established major risk factors - and low risk
- SECTION II: GLOBAL PICTURE OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE
- II.I Worldwide trends
- 5. US trends
- 6. Coronary heart disease in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
- 7. Trends in Asia
- 8. Developing countries
- 9. Coronary heart disease burden among persons of African origin
- II.I Global patterns and the burden of disease
- 10. Coronary heart disease mortality attributable to smoking: Global and regional estimates for 2000
- 11. Blood pressure and the burden of coronary heart disease
- 12. Lipids and cholesterol
- 13. Trends in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: A comparison between Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark, 1950-1999
- SECTION III: AETIOLOGY
- III.I Risk factors
- 14. Dietary patterns and coronary heart disease risk
- 15. Antioxidants and cardiovascular disease
- 16. Serum homocysteine and coronary heart disease
- 17. Alcohol and coronary heart disease
- 18. Fish consumption, N-3 fatty acids amd coronary heart disease
- 19. Exercise versus heart attack: History of a hypothesis (reprinted from the 1st edition)
- Addendum to Chapter 19
- 20. Obesity
- 21. Metabolic syndrome, diabetes and coronary heart disease
- 22. Women and cardiovascular heart disease
- 23. Use of oral contraceptives
- 24. Systematic review of prospective cohort studies of psychosocial factors in the aetiology and prognosis of coronary heart disease
- 25. Mental illness and coronary heart disease
- 26. Psychophysiology
- 27. Chronic infection and circulating markers of inflammation
- 28. Coagulation, thrombosis and coronary heart disease
- 29. Air pollution
- 30. Seasonal variations in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality and the role of temperature
- 31. Gene-environment interaction and coronary artery disease: apolipoprotein E and smoking and the interleukin-6 gene and inflammation as examples
- III.II Life course
- 32. The developmental origins of coronary heart disease
- 33. Life course influences on coronary heart disease
- 34. Emergence of risk factors in children
- 35. Risk factors in the elderly
- SECTION IV: PUBLIC HEALTH
- 36. Strategies of prevention: the individual and the population (reprinted from the 1st edition)
- 37. Contributions to change: major risk factors and the potential for prevention
- 38. Prevention of coronary heart diesase: Findings from the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals' Follow-Up Study
- 39. Risk scores for management and the prevention of cardiovascular disease
- 40. Non-invasive measures of preclinical coronary heart disease
- 41. Screening for future coronary heart disease
- 42. Screening for type 2 diabetes
- 43. Primary prevention of high blood pressure
- 44. The secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
- 45. Smoke-free policies are an effective way to reduce heart disease rapidly
- 46. Nutrition Policy: national stratergies for dietary change
- 47. Lessening inequalities and effect on coronary heart disease
- 48. Behaviour Change
- 49. Contributions to change: treatment
- 50. Intervention in high risk groups: hypertension
- 51. Community change and the role of public health
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