1st Edition
Cardiovascular Disease in Women
192 Pages
5 Color & 9 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
One of the newly emerging themes in clinical practice is the concept of 'gender specific' medicine - the realization that the pathogenesis, etiology and progression of disease often differs between the sexes. In some instances, the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are known, in others, they remain the focus of speculation. In many cases, the impact of disease and the options for management... Read more
1. Pathophysiology of aging Dohrmann & Shah 2. Hypertension Sowers, Khan, Dawood-Farah & Kurukulasuriya 3. Ischemic heart disease Wasson & Tejwani 4. Cardiomyopathy Best & Kaser 5. Valvular heart disease Goel & Aggarwal 6. Cardiac arrythmias Kuppuswamy & Flaker 7. Diagnosis and treatment of lipid abnormalities Gardner 8. Diabetes mellitus Brietzke 9. Preoperative evaluation Wasson & Dellsperger 10. Oral contraceptives Kerns 11. Hormone replacement therapy Cassels 12. Exercise Artal 13. Nutrition Hillman
Biography
Hung N. Winn, Kevin Dellsperger
"…a well-rounded approach to various cardiovascular diseases in the female population and offers an explanation of the course of treatment."
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