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Coronary heart disease epidemiology : from aetiology to public health / edited by Michael Marmot and Paul Elliott. - 2nd ed. - xx, 932 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

-- Coronary heart disease epidemiology : from aetiology to public health -- Contribution of epidemiology to understanding coronary heart disease -- Established major coronary risk factors : historical overview -- Current status : six established major risk factors and low risk -- 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 -- Coronary 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, 1950-99 -- Dietary patterns and coronary heart disease risk / M. Marmot and P. Elliott / F.H. Epstein / J. Stamler / J. Stamler ... [and others] / R.V. Luepker / M. Bobak and M. Marmot / H. Ueshima / K.S. Reddy / R.S. Cooper / M. Ezzati and A.D. Lopez / C.M.M. Lawes ... [and others] / M. Law and A. Rodgers / J.V. Joossens and H. Kesteloot / T.P. Erlinger and L.J. Appel -- Antioxidants and cardiovascular disease -- Serum homocysteine and coronary heart disease -- Alcohol and coronary heart disease -- Fish consumption, N-3 fatty acids, and coronary heart disease -- Exercise versus heart attack: history of a hypothesis -- 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 / E. R. Miller and L. J. Appel / D. S. Wald ... [and others] / M. Bobak and M. Marmot / D. Kromhout / J. N. Morris / A. R. Dyer, J. Stamler, and P. Greenland / G. Hu, Q. Qiao, and J. Tuomilehto / L. H. Kuller / N. R. Poulter / H. Kuper, M. Marmot, H. Hemingway / S. Stansfeld and F. Rasul -- 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 in coronary artery disease : apolipoprotein E and smoking and the interleukin-6 gene and inflammation as examples -- 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 -- Strategies of prevention : the individual and the population -- Contributions to change : major risk factors and the potential for prevention -- Prevention of coronary heart disease : findings from the nurses' health study and health professionals' follow-up study / A. Steptoe / P. Whincup and J. Danesh / T.W. Meade and P.K. MacCallum / C.A. Pope III / M.B. Toledano, G. Shaddick, and P. Elliott / S.E. Humphries / D.J.P. Barker / G. Davey Smith and J. Lynch / D.R. Labarthe / J.G. van der Bom and D.E. Grobbee / G. Rose / R. Beaglehole and A. Dobson / F.B. Hu and W.C. Willett -- Risk scores for management and 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 strategies 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 / D. Wood and K. Kotseva / P. Greenland / N.J. Wald and M.R. Law / D.G. Johnston ... [and others] / P. Elliott and J. Stamler / S.S. Anand, E. Lonn, and S. Yusuf / C. M. Fichtenberg and S.A. Glantz / W.P.T. James and N.J. Rigby / M. Whitehead and M. Marmot / L.J. Cooke, J. Wardle, and M. Jarvis / H. Tunstall-Pedoe / P.S. Sever and N.R. Poulter / P. Puska.

ISBN: 0198525737 0198568061

Standard No.: 9780198525738 9780198568063

LCCN: 2005006679

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Coronary heart disease--Epidemiology.

LC Class. No.: RA645.C68 / C67 2005 RA645.C68 / C67 2005

Dewey Class. No.:

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2005 J-572 WG 300 / C8233 2005