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Managing cardiovascular risk

In this book the authors demonstrate how the capacity to identify risk factors in CVD and manage the disease can mean reduced morbidity and mortality.

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Bibliographic Details
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Subjects:	Cardiovascular Diseases > epidemiology Risk Factors Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular Diseases > prevention & control
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Table of Contents:

Editors and contributors
Introduction - the primacy of total risk estimation in planning management
Socioeconomic aspects of risk prediction
Overweight, physical inactivity, insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, diabetes, the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular risk
Management of specific risk factors - lipids
Management of specific risk factors - hypertension
Heart rate as a risk factor