Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION ; 1. Coronary heart disease epidemiology: from aetiology to public health ; 2. Contribution of epidemiology to understanding coronary heart disease (reprinted from the 1st edition) ; 3. Established major coronary risk factors: historical overview ; 4. Current status: six established major risk factors - and low risk ; SECTION II: GLOBAL PICTURE OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE ; II.I Worldwide trends ; 5. US trends ; 6. Coronary heart disease in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union ; 7. Trends in Asia ; 8. Developing countries ; 9. Coronary heart disease burden among persons of African origin ; II.I Global patterns and the burden of disease ; 11. BLOOD PRESSURE AND THE BURDEN OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE ; 12. LIPIDS AND CHOLESTEROL ; 13. TRENDS IN ALL-CAUSE AND CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY: A COMPARISON BETWEEN BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS AND DENMARK, ; 1950-1999 ; SECTION III: AETIOLOGY ; III.I Risk factors ; 14. Dietary patterns and coronary heart disease risk ; 15. Antioxidants and cardiovascular disease ; 16. Serum homocysteine and coronary heart disease ; 17. Alcohol and coronary heart disease ; 18. Fish consumption, N-3 fatty acids amd coronary heart disease ; 19. Exercise versus heart attack: History of a hypothesis (reprinted from the 1st edition) ; Addendum to Chapter 19 ; 20. Obesity ; 21. Metabolic syndrome, diabetes and coronary heart disease ; 22. Women and cardiovascular heart disease ; 23. Use of oral contraceptives ; 24. Systematic review of prospective cohort studies of psychosocial factors in the aetiology and prognosis of coronary heart disease ; 25. Mental illness and coronary heart disease ; 26. Psychophysiology ; 27. Chronic infection and circulating markers of inflammation ; 28. Coagulation, thrombosis and coronary heart disease ; 29. Air pollution ; 30. Seasonal variations in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality and the role of temperature ; 31. Gene-environment interaction and coronary artery disease: apolipoprotein E and smoking and the interleukin-6 gene and inflammation as examples ; III.II Life course ; 32. The developmental origins of coronary heart disease ; 33. Life course influences on coronary heart disease ; 34. Emergence of risk factors in children ; 35. Risk factors in the elderly ; SECTION IV: PUBLIC HEALTH ; 36. Strategies of prevention: the individual and the population (reprinted from the 1st edition) ; 37. Contributions to change: major risk factors and the potential for prevention ; 38. Prevention of coronary heart diesase: Findings from the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals' Follow-Up Study ; 39. Risk scores for management and the prevention of cardiovascular disease ; 40. Non-invasive measures of preclinical coronary heart disease ; 41. Screening for future coronary heart disease ; 42. Screening for type 2 diabetes ; 43. Primary prevention of high blood pressure ; 44. The secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease ; 45. Smoke-free policies are an effective way to reduce heart disease rapidly ; 46. Nutrition Policy: national stratergies for dietary change ; 47. Lessening inequalities and effect on coronary heart disease ; 48. Behaviour Change ; 49. Contributions to change: treatment ; 50. Intervention in high risk groups: hypertension ; 51. Community change and the role of public health