Psychological Factors & Cardiovascular Disorders - The Role of Stress & Psychosocial Influences (Hardcover, New)

Psychological factors significantly affect the cardiovascular system and play an important role in the etiopathogenesis of cardiovascular disorders. For the past several decades attention to the psychosocial and behavioural factors in cardiovascular disease has increased significantly. Multiple lines of evidence suggest that psychosocial factors contribute significantly to coronary heart disease as evidenced by data relating risk to depression, anxiety, personality factors and character traits, social isolation, and chronic life stress. When psychosocial stresses tend to cluster together, risk for cardiac events is often substantially elevated, equalling or exceeding that associated with standard biomedical risk factors for coronary disease such as hypertension and hypercholesterolemia. Understanding the integration of the interactions among multiple psychological and biological factors in the regulation of the cardiovascular system and the development of cardiovascular disorders is an important challenge for future research. This book will contribute to this goal. The contributors to this book are the leading international experts in the field of the relation between psychological processes and cardiovascular disorders. This book will be of interest to physicians, psychologists, mental health counsellors, other clinicians, medical and psychology students, medical residents, and the general public.

General

Imprint:	nova science publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	November 2008
Editors:	Leo Sher
Dimensions:	180 x 260 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	468
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-60456-923-0
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Cardiovascular medicine Promotions
LSN:	1-60456-923-9
Barcode:	9781604569230

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