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Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases: A Global Challenge, Second Edition

Author(s): Darwin R. Labarthe, MD, PhD, MPH
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763746896
  • ISBN-10:0763746894
  • Paperback    710 pages      © 2011
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Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: A Global Challenge, Second Edition provides an in-depth examination of epidemiologic research and prevention measures for the full range of cardiovascular diseases (CVD).

 

This authoritative text on the world’s leading causes of death describes in detail the nature of atherosclerotic and hypertensive diseases—including their determinants, prevention and control, as well as policies for intervention in community and clinical settings.

 

This Second Edition is fully updated, more extensively referenced and expanded to include new information about the public health dimensions of CVD prevention, exploring the basis of public health decisions and the process by which decision-making bodies develop guidelines and recommendations.

Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases: A Global Challenge, Second Edition is the essential text for any student or practitioner concerned with global cardiovascular health.

 

The Second Edition includes:

  • The most up-to-date epidemiologic research, prevention measures, and policies
  • Fully revised content and expanded material
  • A comprehensive review of CVD research

"As with the excellent first edition, this outstanding update will be of immense value for teaching cardiovascular epidemiology and prevention and providing an authoritative reference for epidemiologists and public health professionals. I am not aware of any other current books on cardiovascular epidemiology. We are fortunate that Dr. Labarthe has met this need so well."

--Jennifer G Robinson, MD, MPH, University of Iowa College of Public Health
For Doody's Book Review Service, June 2010

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Part  I  A Public Health Perspective
Chapter  1  Cardiovascular Diseases: A Global Public Health Challenge
Chapter  2  Distributions and Disparities
Part  II  The Major Cardiovascular Diseases
Chapter  3  Atherosclerosis
Chapter  4  Coronary Heart Disease
Chapter  5  Stroke
Chapter  6  Related Conditions
Part  III  The Main Determinants
Chapter  7  Genes and Environment
Chapter  8  Dietary Imbalance
Chapter  9  Physical Inactivity
Chapter  10  Obesity
Chapter  11  Adverse Blood Lipid Profile
Chapter  12  High Blood Pressure
Chapter  13  Diabetes and the Metabolic Syndrome
Chapter  14  Smoking and Other Tobacco Use
Chapter  15  Other Personal Factors
Chapter  16  Social and Physical Environment
Part  IV  Causation and Prevention: Theory, Practice, and Further Research
Chapter  17  What Causes Cardiovascular Diseases?
Chapter  18  Strategies of Prevention
Chapter  19  Evidence and Decision Making
Chapter  20  Recommendations, Guidelines, and Policies
Chapter  21  The Case for Prevention
Chapter  22  Taking Action
Chapter  23  Epidemiology and a CVD Prevention Research Agenda
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Darwin R. Labarthe, MD, PhD, MPH

 

Darwin R. Labarthe received his A.B. from Princeton University, his M.D. from Columbia University, and his M.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees in epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Labarthe’s professional activities from 1970 through 1999 were based primarily in the School of Public Health at the University of Texas in Houston, where he was James W. Rockwell Professor of Epidemiology, Preventive Medicine, and Public Health.  From 1973-1977, he served as a Consultant in Epidemiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. 

 

In 2000 he joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. There he led the development and implementation of the long-range public health strategic plan, A Public Health Action Plan to Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke. He is Past Chair of the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention and founding Director of CDC’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention.  Dr. Labarthe’s research and teaching activities have primarily been in the area of cardiovascular epidemiology and prevention, with special interest in early development of risk factors in childhood and adolescence. At CDC, his work has turned to public health policy and practice in the prevention of heart disease, stroke, and other chronic diseases. He has published more than 200 research articles and book chapters. 

 

Dr. Labarthe has received the 1998 Abraham Lilienfeld Award for teaching of epidemiology, from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association; the 2006 Joseph E. Stokes, III, Preventive Cardiology Award from the American Society of Preventive Cardiology; the 2007 Eugene Braunwald Mentorship Award of the American Heart Association, and the 2008 Charles C. Shepard Science Award for Assessment and Epidemiology at CDC, among other distinctions. 

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