Evolution of Cardio-Metabolic Risk from Birth to Middle Age - The Bogalusa Heart Study (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)

That precursors of adult coronary artery disease, hypertension, and type II diabetes begin in childhood have been clearly established by the Bogalusa Heart Study. This unique research program has been able to follow a biracial (black/white) population over 35 years from childhood through mid-adulthood to provide perspectives on the natural history of adult heart diseases. Not only do these observations describe trajectories of cardio-metabolic risk variables leading to these diseases but provide a rationale for the need to begin prevention beginning in childhood. The trajectories of the burden of cardio-metabolic risk variables in the context of their fetal origin and chromosome telomere dynamics provide some insight into the metabolic imprinting in utero and aging process. The observed racial contrasts on cardio-metabolic risk variables implicate various biologic pathways interacting with environment contributing to the high morbidity and mortality from related diseases in our population. To address the seriousness of the onset of cardiovascular disease in youth, approaches to primordial prevention are described focussing on childhood health education as an important aspect of Preventive Cardiology.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Release date:	July 2011
First published:	2011
Editors:	Gerald S. Berenson
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	210
Edition:	2011 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-9400714502
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Cardiovascular medicine Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical equipment & techniques > Medical research Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences > Physiology > General
LSN:	9400714505
Barcode:	9789400714502

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