Heart Disease: Handbook & Resource Guide

This comprehensive work comes at a time when 500,000 Americans die of  heart disease every year. Cardiovascular Disease Handbook & Resource  Guide combines valuable educational information for patients and their  families. It offers statistics, both national and state by state, as  well as discussions about prevention, treatment and outcomes. It  includes details on 32 types of cardiovascular disease plus information  on a number of conditions that can cause, or affect it, including  substance abuse and obesity.

Section One: Studies & Statistics About Cardiovascular Disease
Your Guide to a Healthy Heart
Your Guide to Physical Activity and Your Heart
U.S. Maps of Cardiovascular Disease Death Rates by State & County
Women's Heart Health
High Cholesterol
High Blood Pressure
Advancing Heart, Lung, Blood and Sleep Research
Section Two: Types of Cardiovascular Disease
Coronary Heart Disease
Acute Coronary Syndromes
Congenital Heart Disease
Cardiometabolic Disease
Cardiomyopathies
Dyslipidemia
Heart Failure
Stroke
Pericardial Heart Disease
Pulmonary Hypertension
Valvular Disease
Venous Thromboembolism
Conditions: Alcoholism
Conditions: Substance Use & Abuse
Conditions: Fabry Disease
Conditions: DiGeorge Syndrome
Conditions: Diabetes
Conditions: Obesity
General Resources
Appendixes
Glossary of Cardiovascular Terms
Medications for Cardiovascular Disease
Entry Name Index
Geographic Index