Overview
- Focuses on communication and implementation of latest guidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention
- Examines psychosocial stress, family history, nutrition, physical activity, smoking, and alcohol use
- Covers all major and important emerging cardiovascular risk factors, key methodologies in risk assessment, and special issues regarding specific patient populations
- Discusses prevention of coronary heart disease, heart failure, peripheral arterial disease, atrial fibrillation, ischemic stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases
Part of the book series: Contemporary Cardiology (CONCARD)
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About this book
The second edition of the ASPC Manual of Preventive Cardiology is an essential resource for physicians, medical students, residents, fellows, nurses, and other healthcare professionals and researchers in cardiology, primary care, health promotion and disease prevention, exercise physiology, and pharmacotherapy.
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Keywords
- Cardiovascular disease prevention
- Cardiovascular disease risk factors
- Cardiovascular epidemiology
- Cardiovascular rehabilitation
- Cholesterol management guidelines
- Clinical management of cardiovascular risk factors
- Hypertension guidelines
- Preventive cardiology
- Promotion of cardiovascular health
- Risk assessment for cardiovascular disease
Table of contents (29 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Nathan D. Wong, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FASPC, FNLA
Professor and Director, Heart Disease Prevention Program
Division of Cardiology, University of California, Irvine
Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology (UCLA and UC Irvine) and Population Sciences (UC Irvine)
Past President, American Society for Preventive Cardiology
C240 Medical Sciences
Irvine, CA 92697-4079, USA
T: 949-824-5561
Email: ndwong@uci.edu
Ezra A. Amsterdam, MD, FACC, FAHA
Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Associate Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Past President, American Society for Preventive Cardiology
Department of Internal Medicine
University of California (Davis) Medical Center
4086 Y Street
Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
T: 916-734-5191
Email: eaamsterdam@ucdmc.edu
Peter P. Toth, MD, PhD, FAAFP, FCCP, FNLA, FASPC, FESC, FACC
Professor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine
University of Illinois School of Medicine
Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine
Ciccarone Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Johns Hopkins University
President, American Society for Preventive Cardiology101 East Miller Road
Sterling, IL 61081, USA
Email: Peter.Toth@cghmc.com
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: ASPC Manual of Preventive Cardiology
Editors: Nathan D. Wong, Ezra A. Amsterdam, Peter P. Toth
Series Title: Contemporary Cardiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56279-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-56278-6Published: 22 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-56279-3Published: 21 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2196-8969
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8977
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIX, 761
Topics: Cardiology, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Primary Care Medicine