Coronary heart disease epidemiology
Subtitle: from aetiology to public health
By: edited by Michael Marmot and Paul Elliott.
Contributors: Marmot, M. G.; Elliott, P.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 932
Subjects: Coronary heart disease -- Epidemiology.; Coronary Disease -- epidemiology.; Community Health Services.; Risk Factors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Coronary heart disease epidemiology : from aetiology to public health / M. Marmot and P. Elliott; title: Contribution of epidemiology to understanding coronary heart disease / F.H. Epstein; title: Established major coronary risk factors : historical overview / J. Stamler; title: Current status : six established major risk factors and low risk / J. Stamler ... [et al.]; title: US trends / R.V. Luepker; title: Coronary heart disease in central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union / M. Bobak and M. Marmot; title: Trends in Asia / H. Ueshima; title: Developing countries / K.S. Reddy; title: Coronary heart disease burden among persons of African origin / R.S. Cooper; title: Coronary heart disease mortality attributable to smoking : global and regional estimates for 2000 / M. Ezzati and A.D. Lopez; title: Blood pressure and the burden of coronary heart disease / C.M.M. Lawes ... [et al.]; title: Lipids and cholesterol / M. Law and A. Rodgers; title: Trends in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality : a comparison between Belgium, the Netherlands, and denmark, 1950-99 / J.V. Joossens and H. Kesteloot; title: Dietary patterns and coronary heart disease risk / T.P. Erlinger and L.J. Appel; title: Antioxidants and cardiovascular disease / E. R. Miller and L. J. Appel; title: Serum homocysteine and coronary heart disease / D. S. Wald ... [et al.]; title: Alcohol and coronary heart disease / M. Bobak and M. Marmot; title: Fish consumption, N-3 fatty acids, and coronary heart disease / D. Kromhout; title: Exercise versus heart attack: history of a hypothesis / J. N. Morris; title: Obesity / A. R. Dyer, J. Stamler, and P. Greenland; title: Metabolic syndrome, diabetes and coronary heart disease / G. Hu, Q. Qiao, and J. Tuomilehto; title: Women and cardiovascular heart disease / L. H. Kuller; title: Use of oral contraceptives / N. R. Poulter; title: Systematic review of prospective cohort studies of psychosocial factors in the aetiology and prognosis of coronary heart disease / H. Kuper, M. Marmot, H. Hemingway; title: Mental illness and coronary heart disease / S. Stansfeld and F. Rasul; title: Psychophysiology / A. Steptoe; title: Chronic infection and systemic inflammation / P. Whincup and J. Danesh; title: Coagulation, thrombosis, and coronary heart disease / T.W. Meade and P.K. MacCallum; title: Air pollution / C.A. Pope III; title: Seasonal variations in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality and the role of temperature / M.B. Toledano, G. Shaddick, and P. Elliott; title: Gene-environment interaction in coronary artery disease : apolipoprotein E and smoking and the interleukin-6 gene and inflammation as examples / S.E. Humphries; title: The developmental origins of coronary heart disease / D.J.P. Barker; title: Life course influences on coronary heart disease / G. Davey Smith and J. Lynch; title: Emergence of risk factors in children / D.R. Labarthe; title: Risk factors in the elderly / J.G. van der Bom and D.E. Grobbee; title: Strategies of prevention : the individual and the population / G. Rose; title: Contributions to change : major risk factors and the potential for prevention / R. Beaglehole and A. Dobson; title: Prevention of coronary heart disease : findings from the nurses' health study and health professionals' follow-up study / F.B. Hu and W.C. Willett