The American Cardiovascular Pandemic

A 100-Year History

David Gordon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

257 Seiten

2021
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8512-0 (ISBN)

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As Americans and citizens of other industrializing countries began to enjoy lives of increasing affluence and ease during the first half of the 20th century, a rising tide of heart attacks and strokes displaced infectious diseases as the leading cause of death, killing millions in the United States and throughout the world. Although cardiovascular disease remains serious and widespread, the significant decline of per capita deaths is one of the greatest accomplishments of modern public health and medicine. Death rates from heart attack and stroke have fallen dramatically by 80% in the past 50 years -- the progress has been hard won by a combination of basic and applied laboratory research, broad and far-reaching epidemiological studies by physicians, scientists, and public health experts. Cardiovascular disease is no longer viewed as an as an inevitable feature of the natural course of aging, and complacency has given way to hope. This book focuses on developments that influenced the rise and decline of cardiovascular mortality since 1900, but also includes insider insights from the author, a 42-year NIH employee.

David Gordon is a cardiovascular epidemiologist and an internationally recognized expert on clinical trials, who recently retired after 42 years with the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health. He is an author or co-author of 90 peer-reviewed scholarly articles plus invited chapters in 13 medical monographs and textbooks. He lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Elaine A. Moore has worked in hospital laboratories for more than 30 years, primarily in immunohematology and toxicology. She is a freelance medical writer and laboratory consultant. For more information, visit her website at www.elaine-moore.com. She lives in Sedalia, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. A Gentle Pandemic?

2. Framingham, Massachusetts

3. Clinical Trials

4. Lowering the Pressure

5. Fighting Cholesterol

6. The Tobacco Bane

7. The Rise of Diabetes

8. “Good” Cholesterol

9. The Mother of All Trials

10. Unclogging the Pipes

11. Secondary Prevention Drugs

12. Sudden Cardiac Arrest

13. The Fire Within

14. Diet, Exercise, and Obesity

15. Racial Cardiovascular Health Disparities

16. Wrap-Up

Appendix: Details of Calculation of Attributable Declines in Mortality

Glossary of Medical Terms and Acronyms

Chapter Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.12.2021
Reihe/Serie	McFarland Health Topics
Zusatzinfo	18 photos, appendix, glossary, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Kardiologie / Angiologie
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-4766-8512-6 / 1476685126
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8512-0 / 9781476685120
Zustand	Neuware