Heart Disease: Books and eBooks

Focuses on developments that have influenced the rise and decline of cardiovascular mortality since 1900. Contains many statistical tables and includes insider insights from the author, a 42-year NIH employee.

Traces the evolution of our understanding of the heart from the dawn of civilization to today, examining how humans have evolved their beliefs about the purpose of the heart to try to understand what life forces it contains. Includes a section on how the heart works, heart diseases, and gender and racial/ethnic differences in heart disease. Also explores advancements in heart therapies in modern times and what the future may hold.

Two renowned experts, heart surgeon Marc Gillinov and cardiologist Steven Nissen, answer the questions their patients have raised over their decades of practice.

Offers information and tools to help you keep blood pressure from building to dangerous levels. Learn how high blood pressure develops, what puts you at risk, how it's diagnosed and treated, and how to reduce your risk of conditions associated with it.

Offers practical advice and provides insight into silent heart disease, covering its risk factors, how to prevent it, and how to treat it. Written by a celebrated cardiologist who has successfully treated thousands of patients during his 50-year career.

Presents the key information clinicians need to know about ECG use in their everyday practice.

A comprehensive yet concise description of the important cardiac conditions and disorders, presenting an approach to their management. An easily consulted and well-indexed summary to be used at the bedside or in the clinic.

Explores the impact of dietary choices on the prevention, management, and treatment of medical conditions and disease states including: cardiovascular disease, diabetes and metabolic stress, critical illness, cancer, and HIV/AIDS.

Describes facts about cardiovascular disease in women, cardiovascular disease prevention, sex differences in the effects of leading and most prevalent risk factors, and more.
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Describes the pathophysiology, classification and clinical presentation of heart failure in pediatric populations with an emphasis on infants with congenital heart disease. Learn about different modes of clinical investigations for pediatric heart patients as well as heart failure in conditions of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Examines the special characteristics of the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease (CAD) and its clinical presentation in women. Provides a critical review of the existing literature, covering some general aspects of the disease as well as how to make a diagnosis/prognosis of IHD, both clinical and by means of cardiac imaging.