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Cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment strategies have changed greatly over the last decade. Simply standardising cardiovascular risk factors is no longer sufficient: how medicinal products are to be used as part of prevention strategies has radically changed.
Taking into account epidemiological experience, this book discusses all these advances. The primary aim is to describe these new concepts which are based essentially on assessing a patient's global risk level rather than a precise measurement of a given risk factor.
This book discusses the different ways of defining a risk level. With an original and modern take on a subject that has changed fundamentally, the author also shows the reader how to critically interpret cardiovascular prevention literature and identify any bias present. He provides a well-argued analysis of the practical value of measuring these new risk factors.
Over and above this scientific discussion, the aim of this book is to answer the questions frequently asked by the physician in the field of cardiovascular prevention.
It contains practical information on the management of various types of patient (prevention in patients with high blood pressure, coronary disease, arteritis, after a TIA, etc.).
In a field in which reference books are frequently dry, the author provides physicians with clear and abundantly illustrated recommendations drawn from the international press.
CONTENTS:
- New cardiovascular prevention strategies
- Critical reading of cohort studies and individual cases
- Critical reading of prevention clinical trials
- Evaluating cardiovascular risk
- Genetic factors
- New risk factors
- Infraclinical forms of atherosclerosis
- Lifestyle and dietary measures
- Prevention in smokers
- Prevention in the obese and in patients with metabolic syndrome
- Prevention in diabetics
- Prevention in dyslipidemic patients
- Arterial hypertension, a risk factor
- Primary prevention in hypertensive patients
- Prevention in coronary patients
- Prevention after a transient ischemic attack
- Prevention in patients with lower limb arteriopathy