Acknowledgments The authors thank Mercedes Carnethon, coauthor of this chapter from the previous edition of Heart Disease , for her contributions. Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease in Heterogeneous Populations Cardiovascular…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Pregnancy results in hemodynamic and hormonal stress, which increases the risk of complications in women with heart disease. Over the past few decades, the number of pregnancies in women…
Acknowledgments This work was supported by contracts from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes, nos. N01-HV-68161, N01-HV-68162, N01-HV-68163, N01-HV-68164, grants U0164829, U01 HL649141, U01 HL649241, T32HL69751, 1R03AG032631 from the National Institute on Aging, GCRC grant MO1-RR00425 from the National…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians The population of older adults is expanding throughout the world. In the United States the population age ≥65 years, barely 3 million total in 1900, has climbed to about…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is prevalent in patients with cardiac diseases, contributing to a reduced quality of life, a reduced functional capacity, and poor health. SDB causes acute and chronic…
Acknowledgments Dr. Maron would like to acknowledge Dr. Stuart Rich, who authored an earlier version of this chapter which inspired many young physicians and students including Dr. Maron to pursue pulmonary hypertension in clinical and research endeavors. Dr. Maron reports…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Venous thromboembolic disease (VTE), comprising both pulmonary embolism (PE) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT), contributes to substantial cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. PE causes more than 100,000 deaths annually in…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians The pericardium is involved in a wide variety of diseases which result in some of the classic physical, imaging, and hemodynamic findings in cardiology. In this chapter we discuss…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Approximately 37,900,000 people were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection at the end of 2018, and 1,700,000 had become newly infected that year. An estimated 23,300,000 people living…
Additional content is available online at Elsevier eBooks for Practicing Clinicians Many natural and synthetic substances and environmental exposures may affect the heart adversely. Accordingly, it is important to understand the myriad ways in which these substances may influence the…