Lifestyle in Heart Health and Disease

Ronald Ross Watson, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Watson began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. He has done clinical studies in Colombia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States which provides a broad international view of public health. He has served in the military reserve hospital for 17 years with extensive training in medical responses to disasters as the chief biochemistry officer of a general hospital, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. Dr. Watson’s career has involved studying many lifestyle aspects for their uses in health promotion. He has edited over 100 biomedical reference books and 450 papers and chapters. His teaching and research focuses on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs of abuse in heart function and disease in mouse models. Dr. Sherma Zibadi received her Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Arizona. Her medical degree and training were done at the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. She then completed her post-doctoral research fellowship awarded by the American Heart Association where her research involved cardiology and complementary medicine studies. Her research has involved maladaptive cardiac remodeling process, which helps to identify new targets for treatment of heart failure. Dr. Zibadi’s research interest also extends into foods as medicines, exploring the preventive and therapeutic effects of dietary supplements on heart failure and its major risk factors in both basic animal and clinical studies, translating lab research findings into clinical practice. Dr. Zibadi is an author of more than 35 research papers in peer reviewed journals. She has been an editor on 8 scientific books like this one being proposed. She has edited on a variety of clinical topics: breast milk, bottle feeding, wheat and rice in health, polyphenols and health, omega 3 fatty acids, dietary supplements in immune modulation, and dietary fat and health. She and Dr. Watson have collaborated extensively on both laboratory research and editing.

Overview and Mechanisms 1. Cardiovascular Diseases, Obesity and Lifestyle Changes 2. Public Knowledge of Cardiovascular Risk Numbers: Contextual Factors Affecting Knowledge and Health Behavior, and the Impact of Public Health Campaigns 3. Extension of Peer Support from Diabetes Management to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Management in Primary Care and Community Settings in Anhui Province, China 4. Heart health and children 5. Lifestyle factors and the impact on lifetime incidence and mortality of coronary heart disease

Exercise and physical activity 6. Expanding the clinical classification of heart failure: Inclusion of cardiac function during exercise 7. Exercise-based cardiovascular therapeutics: from cellular to molecular mechanisms 8. Exercise, fitness, and cancer outcomes 9. Exercise Prescription for Hypertension: New Advances for Optimizing Blood Pressure Benefits 10. Exercise and Cardiovascular Disease-Emphasis on Efficacy, Dosing, and Adverse Effects and Toxicity 11. The Effect of Exercise Training in Systolic and Diastolic Function 12. Lifestyle and Heart diseases in Choice Experiments 13. Lost in Translation: What does the physical activity and health evidence actually tell us? 14. Community-Based Maintenance Cardiac Rehabilitation 15. Determinants of exercise ventilatory inefficiency in heart failure with reduced or preserved ejection fraction: Application of classical and emerging integrative physiology concepts

Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs of Abuse 16. Relationships of alcohol consumption with risks for type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease in men and women 17. Lifestyle Features and Heart Disease 18. Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Among People Living with HIV: A Tailored Smoking Cessation Program Treating Depression 19. Factors associated with tobacco use among patients with multiple chronic conditions. Multidisciplinary visions about the lifestyle on health and cardiovascular disease

Social, population and family Effects on the Heart and Arteries 20. Lifestyle Interventions in Patients with Serious Mental Illness 21. Chocolate and its Component's Effect on Heart Disease 22. Prediabetes: An Emerging Risk Factor for Coronary Artery Disease 23. Mindfulness-based therapy and heart health 24. Lifestyle Impact and Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Brugada Syndrome 25. Social Relationships and Cardiovascular Health: Underlying Mechanisms, Life Course Processes, and Future Directions 26. Trace Elements and Acute Coronary Artery Disease 27. Decompressive Hemicraniectomy for Severe Stroke: an updated review of the literature