| Description |
1 online resource (354 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
SECTION I. DIET AND HEART DISEASE PREVENTION -- The role of the dietitian in reducing cardiovascular risk: an evidence-based approach / Lee Hooper -- Seafood and myocardial infarction in China / Jian-Min Yuan -- Low occurrence of CHD in sub-Saharan African populations / A.R.P. Walker -- Dietary prevention of CHD: insights into the Mediterranean diet / Michel de Lorgeril, Patricia Salen -- Effects of nutritional education on cardiovascular risk factors / Wanda J.E. Bemelmans -- SECTION II. NUTRIENTS AND HEART DISEASE -- Micronutrients and cardiovascular disease / Klaus K.A. Witte, Andrew L. Clark -- Leptin and blood pressure / Steven J. Swoap, J. Michael Overton -- Retinol, beta-carotene, and alpha-tocopherol in heart disease / Carla Lopes [and others] -- Folate, homocysteine, and heart disease / Pauline Ashfield-Watt [and others] -- SECTION III. FOODS AND MACRONUTRIENTS IN HEART DISEASE -- Flavonoids extracted and in foods: role in hypertension prevention and treatment / Cynthia Mlakar [and others] -- High-carbohydrate diets and lipid metabolism / Michel Beylot -- Vasculoprotective effects of olive oil: epidemiological background and direct vascular antiatherogenic properties / Marika Massaro [and others] -- Cardiovascular effects of dietary soy / Thomas B. Clarkson, Susan E. Appt -- Malnutrition and the heart: a pediatric perspective / Poothirikovil Venugopalan -- Plant sterols and stanols, lipoprotein metabolism, and cardiovascular disease / Elke Naumann [and others] -- Non-nutirent food factors and cardiovascular diseases / Simin Bolourchi-Vaghefi -- SECTION IV. AGE AND HEART DISEASE -- Age-related cardiac dysfuction / Bo Yang [and others] -- Inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) and heart failure / Bo Yang [and others] |
| Summary |
Pulling together current knowledge on nutrition's role in the treatment of heart disease, Nutrition and Heart Disease: Prevention and Treatment is a comprehensive desk reference for nutrition and cardiovascular researchers, primary care physicians, and dieticians. It discusses the roles of nutrition and diet in the prevention of heart damage and dysfunction and how dietary agents such as fats and alcohol can increase as well as reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. The book also includes the importance of water and other beverages in the diet, and provides information on special diets tha |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Heart -- Diseases -- Nutritional aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Nutrition.
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Cardiovascular Diseases -- diet therapy
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Cardiovascular Diseases -- prevention & control
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Diet -- adverse effects
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Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Heart.
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MEDICAL -- Cardiology.
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Nutrition
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Heart -- Diseases -- Nutritional aspects
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Nutrição.
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Doenças cardiovasculares (prevenção e controle;dietoterapia)
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Coração.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Watson, Ronald R. (Ronald Ross)
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Preedy, Victor R.
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| ISBN |
0203507622 |
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9780203507629 |
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084931674X |
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9780849316746 |
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