Primary prevention of heart failure
By: guest editors, Jagat Narula, Clyde W. Yancy, and James B. Young
Contributors: Narula, Jagat; Yancy, Clyde W; Young, James B
Series: Medical clinics of North America -- v. 88, no. 5
Publisher: Saunders
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1390
Notes: "September 2004."

Series title on spine: Medical clinics

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Lessons from curbing the coronary artery disease epidemic for confronting the impending epidemic of heart failure / William B. Kannel; value: The global epidemiology of heart failure / James B. Young; value: Risk factors for heart failure / Satish Kenchaiah, Jagat Narula, and Ramachandran S. Vasan; value: Genetic predisposition to heart failure / Michele Pasotti ... [et al.]; value: Feasibility of arresting the process of remodeling / P.E. Somasundaram and Y. Chandrashekhar; value: Coronary artery disease and prevention of heart failure / Liviu Klein and Mihai Gheorghiade; value: Preventing heart failure in patients with diabetes / Preethi Srikanthan and Willa Hsueh; value: Mechanisms and management of hypertensive heart disease: from left ventricular hypertrophy to heart failure / Joseph L. Izzo, Jr., and Alan H. Gradman; value: Impact of obesity on the risk of heart failure and survival after the onset of heart failure / Satish Kenchaiah, J. Michael Gaziano, and Ramachandran S. Vasan; value: Lifestyle and dietary modification for prevention of heart failure / David L. Katz; value: Heart failure in women / Lars H. Lund and Donna Mancini; value: The prevention of heart failure in minority communities and discrepancies in health care delivery systems / Clyde W. Yancy; value: Epilogue. Practice guidelines: role of internists and primary care physicians / Shashank Desai and Mariell Jessup