cover image - Coronary Heart Disease Prevention - Elsevier eBook on Vitalsource, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780702063954
Copyright: 2004
Publication Date: 11-28-2003
Page Count: 344
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
List Price: $49.99

Coronary Heart Disease Prevention - Elsevier eBook on Vitalsource, 2nd Edition

by Grace Lindsay, BSc(Hons), RGN, SCM, RN, MN and Allan Gaw, MD PhD FRCPath FFPM PGCertMedEd

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

cover image - Coronary Heart Disease Prevention - Elsevier eBook on Vitalsource, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 9780702063954
Copyright: 2004
Publication Date: 11-28-2003
Page Count: 344
Imprint: Churchill Livingstone
List Price: $49.99
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    • 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
  • the implications from clinical governance legislation, the National Service Frameworks and Joint British Recommendations on prevention of CHD in clinical practice
  • recent research outcomes e.g. the HOT trial
  • diabetes and its links with CHD
  • material relating to ethnic minorities
  • more 'global' statistics where possible to make the text more appealing to international markets
  • the inequalities arising from socio-economic exclusion
  • 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.
  • Grace Lindsay, BSc(Hons), RGN, SCM, RN, MN, Lecturer in Nursing and Midwifery Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK and Allan Gaw, MD PhD FRCPath FFPM PGCertMedEd, Professor and Director, Northern Ireland Clinical Research Facility, Belfast, UK
    • Most review copies are eBooks – how fast!
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