Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology
From aetiology to public health
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 June 2005
- ISBN 9780198525738
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages952 pages
- Size 239x168x49 mm
- Weight 1437 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 halftones, numerous tables, graphs and line drawings 0
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Short description:
This is the second edition of the highly successful text. It provides authoritative and readable insight into the wide field of coronary heart disease epidemiology. It reviews major risk factors from various perspectives and is an important textbook on the epidemiology and prevention of CHD, one of the main causes of death in the developed and developing world.
MoreLong 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.
...an invaluable guide to the epidemiology of CHD...[and] an extremely useful companion to students and researchers in CHD epidemiology, and to all of those interested in the latest developments in our understanding of the leading cause of death worldwide.
Table of Contents:
Section I: Introduction
Coronary heart disease epidemiology: from aetiology to public health
Contribution of epidemiology to understanding coronary heart disease (reprinted from the 1st edition)
Established major coronary risk factors: historical overview
Current status: six established major risk factors - and low risk
Section II: Global picture of coronary heart disease
Worldwide trends
US trends
Coronary heart disease in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
Trends in Asia
Developing countries
Coronary heart disease burden among persons of African origin
Global patterns and the burden of diseaseCoronary heart disease mortality attributable to smoking: Global and regional estimates for 2000
Blood pressure and the burden of coronary heart disease
Lipids and cholesterol
Trends in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: A comparison between Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark,
1950-1999
Section III: Aetiology
Risk factors
Dietary patterns and coronary heart disease risk
Antioxidants and cardiovascular disease
Serum homocysteine and coronary heart disease
Alcohol and coronary heart disease
Fish consumption, N-3 fatty acids amd coronary heart disease
Exercise versus heart attack: History of a hypothesis (reprinted from the 1st edition)
Addendum to Chapter 19
Obesity
Metabolic syndrome, diabetes and coronary heart disease
Women and cardiovascular heart disease
Use of oral contraceptives
Systematic review of prospective cohort studies of psychosocial factors in the aetiology and prognosis of coronary heart disease
Mental illness and coronary heart disease
Psychophysiology
Chronic infection and circulating markers of inflammation
Coagulation, thrombosis and coronary heart disease
Air pollution
Seasonal variations in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality and the role of temperature
Gene-environment interaction and coronary artery disease: apolipoprotein E and smoking and the interleukin-6 gene and inflammation as examples
Life course
The developmental origins of coronary heart disease
Life course influences on coronary heart disease
Emergence of risk factors in children
Risk factors in the elderly
Section IV: Public health
Strategies of prevention: the individual and the population (reprinted from the 1st edition)
Contributions to change: major risk factors and the potential for prevention
Prevention of coronary heart diesase: Findings from the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals' Follow-Up Study
Risk scores for management and the prevention of cardiovascular disease
Non-invasive measures of preclinical coronary heart disease
Screening for future coronary heart disease
Screening for type 2 diabetes
Primary prevention of high blood pressure
The secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease
Smoke-free policies are an effective way to reduce heart disease rapidly
Nutrition Policy: national stratergies for dietary change
Lessening inequalities and effect on coronary heart disease
Behaviour Change
Contributions to change: treatment
Intervention in high risk groups: hypertension
Community change and the role of public health
