Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide affecting millions of people in both developed and developing countries. The dual aims of this book are to review the well-established and emerging risk factors in coronary heart disease and to apply this knowledge to public health approaches to disease prevention. The book includes authoritative accounts of studies within a single population and international studies, important areas of methodological development, trials to test preventive strategies, and the application of epidemiological and other knowledge to the development of public health policy for the prevention of widespread disease. It is an all-encompassing work containing contributions from the world authorities in the field. The book is divided into four sections. The introduction reviews advances in the understanding of, and the current status, of risk factors for CHD. Section 2 looks at recent global trends and emerging patterns of CHD morbidity and mortality in several countries, and includes chapters on work done under the auspices of WHO on the global burden of disease in relation to smoking and blood pressure. Section 3 focuses on advances in understanding the aetiology of CHD with each chapter focused on a particular risk factor. Section 4 explores measures of prevention and intervention in terms of public health policy with specific examples from around the world.

Section I: Introduction 1. Coronary heart disease epidemiology: from aetiology to public health, Michael Marmot & Paul Elliott 2. Contribution of epidemiology to understanding coronary heart disease (reprinted from the 1st edition), Fredrick H. Epstein 3. Established major coronary risk factors: historical overview, Jeremiah Stamler 4. Current status: six established major risk factors - and low risk, Jeremiah Stamler, James D. Neaton, Dan Garside & Martha Daviglus Section II: Global picture of coronary heart disease II.I. Worldwide trends 5. US trends, Russell V. Luepker 6. Coronary heart disease in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Martin Bobak & Michael Marmot 7. Trends in Asia, Hirotsugu Ueshima 8. Developing countries, K. Srinath Reddy 9. Coronary heart disease burden among persons of African origin, Richard S. Cooper II.I. Global patterns and the burden of disease, Majid 11. Ezzati & Alan D. LopezBlood pressure and the burden of coronary heart disease, Carlene M. M. Lawes, Stephen Vander Hoorn, Paul 12. Elliott & Anthony RodgersLipids and cholesterol, Malcolm Law & Anthony 13. RodgersTrends in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: A comparison between Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark, 1950-1999Jozef V. Joossens & Hugo Kesteloot Section III: Aetiology III.I. Risk factors 14. Dietary patterns and coronary heart disease risk, Thomas P. Erlinger & Lawrence J. Appel 15. Antioxidants and cardiovascular disease, Edgar R. Miller & Lawrence J. Appel 16. Serum homocysteine and coronary heart disease, David S. Wald, Malcolm Law, Joan Morris & Nicholas J. Wald 17. Alcohol and coronary heart disease, Martin Bobak & Micheal Marmot 18. Fish consumption, N-3 fatty acids amd coronary heart disease, Daan Kromhout 19. Exercise versus heart attack: History of a hypothesis (reprinted from the 1st edition), Jerry N. Morris Addendum to Chapter 19, William L. Haskell 20. Obesity, Alan R. Dyer, Jeremiah Stamler & Philip Greenland 21. Metabolic syndrome, diabetes and coronary heart disease, Gang Hu, Qing Qiao & Jaako Tuomilehto 22. Women and cardiovascular heart disease, Lewis H. Kuller 23. Use of oral contraceptives, Neil R. Poulter 24. Systematic review of prospective cohort studies of psychosocial factors in the aetiology and prognosis of coronary heart disease, Hannah Kuper, Michael Marmot & Harry Hemingway 25. Mental illness and coronary heart disease, Stephen Stansfield & Farhat Rasul 26. Psychophysiology, Andrew Steptoe 27. Chronic infection and circulating markers of inflammation, Peter Whincup & John Danesh 28. Coagulation, thrombosis and coronary heart disease, Thomas W. Meade & Peter K. MacCallum 29. Air pollution, C. Arden Pope 30. Seasonal variations in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality and the role of temperature, Mireille B. Toledano, Paul Elliott & Gavin Shaddick 31. Gene-environment interaction and coronary artery disease: apolipoprotein E and smoking and the interleukin-6 gene and inflammation as examples, Steve E. Humphries III.II. Life course 32. The developmental origins of coronary heart disease, David J. P. Barker 33. Life course influences on coronary heart disease, George Davey Smith & John Lynch 34. Emergence of risk factors in children, Darwin R. Labarthe 35. Risk factors in the elderly, Johanna G. van der Bom & Diederick E. Grobbee Section IV: Public health 36. Strategies of prevention: the individual and the population (reprinted from the 1st edition), G. Rose (deceased) 37. Contributions to change: major risk factors and the potential for prevention, Robert Beaglehole & Annette Dobson 38. Prevention of coronary heart diesase: Findings from the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals' Follow-Up Study, Frank B. Hu & Walter C. Willett 39. Risk scores for management and the prevention of cardiovascular disease, David Wood & K. Kotseva 40. Non-invasive measures of preclinical coronary heart disease, Philip Greenland 41. Screening for future coronary heart disease, Nicholas J. Wald & Malcolm R. Law 42. Screening for type 2 diabetes, Desmond G. Johnston, K. George M. M. Albetri, Ian F. Godsland, Mary Pierce & Sandra Shepperd 43. Primary prevention of high blood pressure, Paul Elliott & Jeremiah Stamler 44. The secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, Sonia S. Anand, Eva Lonn & Salim Yusuf 45. Smoke-free policies are an effective way to reduce heart disease rapidly, Caroline M. Fitchenberg & Stanton A. Glantz 46. Nutrition Policy: national stratergies for dietary change, W. Philip T. James & Neville J. Rigby 47. Lessening inequalities and effect on coronary heart disease, Margaret Whitehead & Michael Marmot 48. Behaviour Change, Lucy J. Cooke, Jane Wardle & Martin Jarvis 49. Contributions to change: treatment, Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe 50. Intervention in high risk groups: hypertension, Peter S. Sever & Neil R. Poulter 51. Community change and the role of public health, Pekka Puska

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