Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology (2^nd Ed.)
From aetiology to public health

Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide affecting millions of people in both developed and developing countries. The dual aims of this book are to review the well-established and emerging risk factors in coronary heart disease and to apply this knowledge to public health approaches to disease prevention. The book includes authoritative accounts of studies within a single population and international studies, important areas of methodological development, trials to test preventive strategies, and the application of epidemiological and other knowledge to the development of public health policy for the prevention of widespread disease. It is an all-encompassing work containing contributions from the world authorities in the field. The book is divided into four sections. The introduction reviews advances in the understanding of, and the current status, of risk factors for CHD. Section 2 looks at recent global trends and emerging patterns of CHD morbidity and mortality in several countries, and includes chapters on work done under the auspices of WHO on the global burden of disease in relation to smoking and blood pressure. Section 3 focuses on advances in understanding the aetiology of CHD with each chapter focused on a particular risk factor. Section 4 explores measures of prevention and intervention in terms of public health policy with specific examples from around the world.

Section. Part 1: Introduction. 1: Michael Marmot & Paul Elliott: Coronary heart epidemiology: from aetiology to public health, 2: Fredrick H. Epstein: Contribution of epidemiology to understanding CHD, 3: Jeremiah Stamler: Established major coronary risk factors: historical overview, 4: Jeremiah Stamler, James D Neaton, Dan Garside & Martha Daviglus: Current status: six established major risk factors - and low risk, Section. Part 2: Global picture of coronary heart disease. Part 2: I. Worldwide trends, 5: Russell. Part 5: Luepker. US trends, 6: Martin Bobak & Michael Marmot: Comparison of East and West Europe, 7: Hirotsugo Ueshima: Trends in Asia, 8: K. Srinath Reddy: Developing countries, 9: Richard S. Cooper: CVD burden among persons of African origin,. Part 2: I. Global Patterns and the Burden of Disease, 10: Majid Ezzati & Alan D. Lopez: Coronary heart disease mortality attributable to smoking: Global and regional estimates for 2000, 11: Carlene M. M. Lawes, Stephen Vander Hoorn, Paul Elliott & Anthony Rodgers: Blood pressure and the burden of coronary heart disease, 12: Malcolm Law & Anthony Rodgers: Lipids and cholesterol, 13: Jozef. Part 5: Joossens . Hugo Kesteloot: Trends in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: A comparison between Belgium, Denmark and the Netherlands, 1950-1999, Section. Part 3: Aetiology. 14: Thomas P. Erlinger & Lawrence J. Appel: Dietary patterns and coronary heart disease risk, 15: Edgar R. Miller & Lawrence J. Appel: Antioxidants and cardiovascular disease, 16: David S. Wald, Malcolm Law, Joan Morris & Nicholas J. Wald: Serum homocysteine and coronary heart disease, 17: Martin Bobak & Micheal Marmot: Alcohol and coronary heart disease, 18: Daan Kromhout: Fish consumption, N-3 fatty acids amd coronary heart disease, 19: Jerry N. Morris: Exercise versus heart attack: History of a hypothesis, William L. Haskell: Addendum, 20: Alan R. Dyer, Jeremiah Stamler & Philip Greenland: Obesity, 21: Gang Hu, Qing Qiao & Jaako Tuomilehto: Metabolic syndrome, diabetes and CHD, 22: Lewis H. Kuller: Women and cardiovascular heart disease, 23: Neil R. Poulter: Use of oral contraceptives, 24: Hannah Kuper, Michael Marmot & Harry Hemingway: Systematic review of prospective cohort studies of psychosocial factors in the aetiology and prognosis of coronary hert disease, 25: Stephen Stansfield & Farhat Rasul: Mental illness and coronary heart disease, 26: Andrew Steptoe: Psychophysiology, 27: Peter Whincup & John Danesh: Chronic infection and systematic inflammation, 28: Thomas W. Meade & Peter K. MacCallum: Coagulation, thrombosis and coronary heart disease, 29: C. Arden Pope: Coronary heart disease: air pollution, 30: Mireille B. Toledano, Paul Elliott & Gavin Shaddick: Temperature, 31: Steve E. Humphries: Gene - environment interaction and coronary artery disease,. Part 3: I. Life course, 32: David J. P. Barker: The developmental origins of coronary heart disease, 33: George Davey Smith & John Lynch: Life course influences on coronary heart disease, 34: Darwin R. Labarthe: Emergence of risk factors in children, 35: Johanna G. van der Bom & Diederick E. Grobbee: Risk factors in the elderly, Section. Part 4: Public health. 36: G. Rose: Stratergies of prevention: the individual and the population, 37: Robert Beaglehole & Annette Dobson: Contributions to change: major risk factors and the potential for prevention, 38: Frank B. Hu & Walter C. Willett: Prevention of coronary heart diesase: Findings from the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals' Follow-Up Study, 39: David Wood & K. Kotseva: Risk scores for management and the prevention of cardiovascular disease, 40: Philip Greenland: Non-invasive measures of preclinical CHD, 41: Nicholas J. Wald & Malcolm R. Law: Screening for future coronary heart disease, 42: Desmond G. Johnston, K. George M. M. Albetri, Ian F. Godsland, Mary Pierce & Sandra Shepperd: Screening for type 2 diabetes, 43: Paul Elliott & Jeremiah Stamler: Primary prevention of high blood pressure, 44: Sonia S. Anand, Eva Lonn & Salim Yusuf: The secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease, 45: Caroline M. Fitchenberg & Stanton A. Glantz: Smoke-free policies are an effective way to reduce heart disease rapidly, 46: W. Philip T. James & Neville J. Rigby: Nutrition Policy: national stratergies for dietary change, 47: Margaret Whitehead & Michael Marmot: Lessening inequalities and effect on CHD, 48: Lucy J. Cooke, Jane Wardle & Martin Jarvis: Behaviour Change, 49: Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe: Contributions to change: treatment, 50: Peter S. Sever & Neil R. Poulter: Intervention in high risk groups: hypertension, 51: Pekka Puska: Community change and the role of public health

Postgraduate students in epidemiology and public health and practising coronary heart disease epidemiologists, as well as public health policy makers and those involved in preventive medicine in the field of heart disease.