Addresses the prevention and risk stratification of cardiovascular disease so that you can delay the onset of disease and moderate the effects and complications. This title discusses epidemiology of heart disease, risk assessment, risk factors, multiple risk factor-based prevention strategies, and developments in genetics medicine.

Contents 1. Preventive Cardiology: Past, Present and Future 2. National and International Trends in Cardiovascular Disease: Incidence and Risk Factors 3. Prediction of Cardiovascular Disease: Framingham Risk Estimation and Beyond 4. Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease and Its Role in Risk Prediction 5. Novel Biomarkers Assessing Cardiovascular Risk 6. Advanced Risk Assessment in Patients with Kidney and Inflammatory Diseases 7. Antiplatelet Therapy 8. Molecular Biology and Genetics and Atherosclerosis 9. Hypertension: JNC 7 and Beyond 10. Heart Failure Prevention 11. Antihypertensive Drugs and Their Cardio- and Renoprotective Roles in the Prevention and Management of Cardiovascular Disease 12. Evaluation and Management of Dyslipidemia in Children and Adolescents 13. The Role of HDL Cholesterol in the Development of Atherosclerotic CVD 14. Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol: Role in Atherosclerosis and Approaches to Therapeutic Management 15. The Contribution of Triglycerides and Triglyceride-Rich Lipoproteins to Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease 16. Nutritional Approaches for CVD Prevention 17. Integrative Medicine in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease 18. Effects of Alcohol on CVD Risk 19. Overweight, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Risk 20. Tobacco Use, Passive Smoking, and Cardiovascular Disease: Research and Smoking Cessation Interventions 21. Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease 22. Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease 23. Role of Ethnicity in CVD - Lessons learned from MESA and other population based studies 24. Prevention of Ischemic Heart Disease in Women 25. Cardiovascular Aging the Next Frontier in Cardiovascular Prevention 26. Concepts of Screening for Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Disease 27. Role of Vascular CT in Evaluation and Prevention of CVD 28. Use of Cardiac MRI and PET in Assessment of CVD Risk and Atherosclerosis Progression 29. Exercise Treadmill Stress Testing with and without Imaging 30. Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Measurement and Plaque Detection for Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction 31. Peripheral Artery Disease Assessment and Management 32. Endothelial Function and Dysfunction 33. Exercise for Restoring Health and Preventing Vascular Disease FSGC 34. Psychological Risk Factors and Coronary Artery Disease: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Management 35. The Role of Treatment Adherence in Cardiac Risk Factor Modification 36. Clinical Practice Guidelines and Performance Measures in the Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease