This book summarizes the extensive literature on heart disease risk factors and prevention and provides evidence-based protocols for reducing risks for heart disease and for secondary episodes, such as repeat heart attacks. It offers clear clinical strategies to successfully screen, identify, and control cardiovascular risk factors.
This valuable new edition provides clinical cardiologists, internists, primary care providers, and allied health care professionals with the tools and understanding necessary for their practice in preventive cardiology.
Ezra A. Amsterdam, MD, Roger S. Blumenthal, MD, FACC, FAHA, Nathan D. Wong, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FNLA. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. ... Cholesterol Treatment Trialists' (CTT) Collaborators, Mihaylova B, Emberson J, Blackwell L, et al.
Other investigations have shown that primary prevention of cardiovascular disease is feasible using simple interventions. This book provides a comprehensive approach to cardiovascular wellness from a clinical perspective.
The ESC Handbook of Preventive Cardiology is a 'how-to' manual for busy healthcare professionals.
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This second edition provides an updated review on the current guidelines and practice standards for the clinical management of cardiovascular risk factors and prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
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Preventive cardiology is a newly developed discipline combining aspects of clinical cardiological practice, cardiovascular epidemiology, and behavioural science. This data-rich account of the entire field concentrates on individual risk factors...
Preventive cardiology, as the editors see it, encompasses all aspects of knowledge related to the prevention of premature cardiovascular disease—either its manifestation or its progression—with the aim of averting life-threatening ...