Global Cardiovascular Health Kawkab Shishani Erika S. Sivarajan Froelicher INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL HEALTH In recent years, medicine worldwide has witnessed an “epidemiologic transition.” Morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases have…
Hemodynamic Monitoring Elizabeth J. Bridges Cardiovascular support of critically ill patients requires noninvasive and invasive monitoring of physiological indicators of cardiovascular function, including factors that affect cardiac performance (preload, afterload,…
Obesity: An Overview of Assessment and Treatment Lora E. Burke Patricia K. Tuite Melanie Warziski Turk Obesity is a multifactorial disease involving complex interactions among genetic, metabolic, environmental, cultural, and…
Hypertension Cheryl R. Dennison Nancy Houston Miller Susanna G. Cunningham Hypertension (HTN), also known as high blood pressure (BP), is the most common risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) in…
Diabetes Mellitus and Metabolic Syndrome Beverly Dyck Thomassian OVERVIEW OF DIABETES The global epidemic of diabetes will challenge our generation to develop novel strategies to prevent and treat this life…
Psychosocial Risk Factors: Assessment and Management Interventions Simone K. Madan Erika S. Sivarajan Froelicher Despite extensive research and advances in knowledge about coronary heart disease (CHD) over the past several…
Heart Failure and Cardiogenic Shock Laurie A. Soine HEART FAILURE Heart failure (HF) is a pathophysiologic state in which an abnormality of cardiac function is responsible for inadequate systemic perfusion….
Sudden Cardiac Death and Cardiac Arrest Donna Gerity Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a major clinical and public health problem in the United States. The incidence of SCD is difficult…
Electrocardiography Carol Jacobson Electrocardiography is the graphic display of the changing potentials of the electrical field generated by the heart as recorded by electrodes placed on the body surface. Recording…
Interventional Cardiology Techniques: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Michaelene Hargrove Deelstra More than 30 years has passed since the introduction of coronary angioplasty by Andreas Gruentzig in 1977.1 Interventional cardiology has continued…
