"Cardiovascular disease (CVD), once thought to be confined primarily to industrialized nations, has emerged as a major health threat in developing countries. Cardiovascular disease now accounts for nearly 30 percent of deaths in low and middle income countries each year, and is accompanied by significant economic repercussions. Yet most governments, global health institutions, and development agencies have largely overlooked CVD as they have invested in health in developing countries. Recognizing the gap between the compelling evidence of the global CVD burden and the investment needed to prevent and control CVD, the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) turned to the IOM for advice on how to catalyze change. In this report, the IOM recommends that the NHLBI, development agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and governments work toward two essential goals: creating environments that promote heart healthy lifestyle choices and help reduce the risk of chronic diseases; and building public health infrastructure and health systems with the capacity to implement programs that will effectively detect and reduce risk and manage CVD. To meet these goals, the IOM recommends several steps, including improving cooperation and collaboration; implementing effective and feasible strategies; and informing efforts through research and health surveillance. Without better efforts to promote cardiovascular health, global health as a whole will be undermined."--home page.

Author: Committee on Preventing the Global Epidemic of Cardiovascular Disease: Meeting the Challenges in Developing Countries, Institute of Medicine
Paperback: 484 pages
Company: National Academies Press (2010-06-29)
ISBN: 0309147743
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While most books focus solely on the role of cholesterol in heart disease, Reverse Heart Disease Now draws on new research that points to the surprising other causes. Two leading cardiologists draw on their collective fifty years of clinical cardiology research to show you how to combine the benefits of modern medicine, over-the-counter vitamins and supplements, and simple lifestyle changes to have a healthy heart.

Author: Stephen T. Sinatra, James C. Roberts
Paperback: 272 pages
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Author: Editors of Women's Health, Men's Health Editors of
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Comprehensive description of the role of essential fats in health and disease for people who want to live long and healthy lives, patients, professionals, and news media. The author discovered why low-fat diets can be harmful, and invented a test to diagnose deficiencies and imbalances of essential fats. Based on original research by the author published in leading peer-reviewed scientific journals, presented at scientific meetings, and cited by international news media such as CNN, Time, The New York Times, etc. Reveals how to use the essential fats w3 (like fish, flax oils) and w6 (like soybean, evening primrose, borage oils) to improve your health, prevent cardiovascular disease, improve your IQ, get a healthier, trimmer body, and have younger looking skin. Discusses guidelines on fat, cholesterol, cancer, and diabetes. Advises on lowering blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides and dangerous blood levels of trans fatty acids. New treatments for heart disease, diabetes, Crohn's, cystic fibrosis, hypertension, Alzheimer's, and many more. The amazing Boston egg white diet to lose fat (weight). The smart guide to blood (laboratory) tests.

Author: Edward N. Siguel
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An illuminating and timely synthesis of methodological and clinical studies showing how medical costs can be established, how the value of clinical outcomes can be assessed, and how difficult choices can be rationally made. The methodological chapters review the conceptual and practical issues involved in estimating and interpreting health care costs, making health status and utility assessments, and statistically analyzing cost-effectiveness and clinical trials. The clinical chapters apply these methods to the major clinical areas of cardiology-primary prevention of coronary artery disease, acute coronary syndromes, angioplasty vs coronary bypass surgery, CABG vs medicine, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, and cardiac surgery. Additional chapters consider the use of economic studies for policy purposes and the future of Medicare under a balanced budget in an aging America.

Hardcover: 456 pages
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Author: First Place 4 Health
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In Women's Cardiovascular Health - Every Woman's Guide to Her Heart, Dr. Deepika Gopal gives her female readers and the men in their lives, a description of the heart and of the vascular system, which is the arteries and veins in the body, and of disease states affecting them. She describes in easy-to-understand terms everything they need to know about cardiovascular disease, diagnostic tests, and treatment of the number one killer of men and women. Dr. Gopal also addresses the gender differences in heart disease. After reading this book cover-to-cover, readers will have a thorough understanding of heart and vascular disease. They'll know how to • listen to their hearts • to determine what symptoms they may be having, and discover what they can do to mitigate the risks of developing this killer disease. Dr. Michael Mack writes in his Foreword, "This book captures the distinctive eloquent and direct but caring and compassionate narrative style that Dr. Gopal uses when caring for her patients. It is comprehensive without being verbose, instructive without preaching and scientific yet understandable. She has succeeded in taking complex medical issues and explaining them in clear narrative style that makes them understandable to the casual reader and consumer of health care. Who should read this book? Every woman and the other significant individuals in their lives who need to become better informed and educated about women's heart health and disease."

Author: Deepika Gopal
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Learn how the chemicals and compounds you encounter every day can lead to unexpected health complications and life-threatening disorders. Health and Nutrition Secrets presents the latest information about strokes and heart attacks, diabetes, protecting the digestive system, and the best ways to keep the immune system young and powerful. New revised edition has chapter on The Role of Fats in Health.

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See also Heart Diseases and Disorders Sourcebook, 2nd edition (published 2000)

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