Cardiovascular Disease, An Issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice

This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, Guest Edited by Dr. Mark B. Stephens, is devoted to Cardiovascular Disease. Articles in this issue include: State of the Heart: Overview of disease burden of cardiovascular disease from an epidemiologic perspective; Heavy Heart: Economic burden of heart disease with projections/implications for impact on the health care system; Prevention of Heart Disease; Coronary Artery Disease; Congestive Heart Failure; Valvular Heart Disease; Peripheral Vascular Disease; The Athlete's Heart and Sudden Death; Metabolic Syndrome: systems thinking in heart disease; Women and Heart Disease; Heart Disease in Children; and Cardiac Imaging.

List of contents

Cardiovascular Disease - Table of Contents
Foreword: The Price of the Heart
Preface: Be Still My Beating Heart: Cardiovascular Disease in the United States
State of the Heart: An Overview of the Disease Burden of Cardiovascular Disease from an Epidemiologic Perspective
Heavy Heart: The Economic Burden of Heart Disease in the United States Now and in the Future
Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Coronary Artery Disease: Diagnosis and Management
Heart Failure: Optimizing Recognition and Management in Outpatient Settings
Valvular Heart Disease
Preparticipation Screening of Young Athletes: Identifying Cardiovascular Disease
Metabolic Syndrome: Systems Thinking in Heart Disease
Cardiovascular Disease in Women
Heart Disease in Children
Cardiac Imaging Modalities and Appropriate Use

Product details

• Authors: Mark B Stephens, Mark B. Stephens, Stephens Mark B.
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.02.2018
• EAN: 9780323581660
• ISBN: 978-0-323-58166-0
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 450 g
• Series: The Clinics: Internal Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Family & General Practice, Diseases & disorders, Public health & preventive medicine, Diseases and disorders, Public health and preventive medicine