Table of Contents Details Authors

Key Features

  • evidence-based content ensures a firm scientific basis for practice
  • the practical nature of the content can be immediately applied in the working environment e.g. smoking cessation strategies, dietary counseling and risk assessment
  • the multidisciplinary group of contributors ensures that the content reflects the multidisciplinary nature of CHD prevention work
  • case studies and practice exercises enable the application of theory to practice
  • summaries of key points facilitate understanding and retention

Table of Contents

Preface. Coronary heart disease: epidemiology, pathology and diagnosis. Risk factor assessment. Lipids and lipid-lowering drugs. Hypertension and anti-hypertensive therapy. Lifestyle management: smoking. Lifestyle management: diet. Lifestyle management: exercise. Lifestyle management: facilitating behavioural change. Medical management of coronary heart disease. Cardiac rehabilitation.Women and coronary heart disease. Type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease.

Details

No. of pages:
344
Language:
English
Copyright:
© 2004
Published:
Imprint:
Churchill Livingstone
eBook ISBN:
9780702039638
eBook ISBN:
9780702063954
Print ISBN:
9780443071171

About the authors

Grace Lindsay

Affiliations and Expertise

Lecturer in Nursing and Midwifery Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

Allan Gaw

Affiliations and Expertise

Professor and Director, Northern Ireland Clinical Research Facility, Belfast, UK
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