Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology

Critical Public Health ...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.

Doody's Journal ... this book is a must have reference providing enough detail to establish a comprehensive knowledge base for epidemiologists who research cardiovascular disease and investigate the efficacy of preventive strategies.

(Oxford)

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; 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

(Oxford)