Heart disease : environment, stress, and gender /

Annotation This book addresses one major question: Why do men get more heart disease than women? Recent global trends in heart disease show that traditional coronary risk factors, such as elevated blood pressure and cholesterol are poor candidates in explaining the gender gap in heart disease. Chang...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Increase in Coronary Heart Disease in Central and Eastern Europe: Stress and Gender Related Factors Budapest, Hungary, North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division
Otros Autores: Weidner, Gerdi, Kopp, Mária, Kristenson, Margareta
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Washington, DC : IOS Press, ©2002.
Colección:NATO science series. Life and behavioural sciences ; v. 327.
Temas:
Coronary heart disease > Europe, Central > Congresses.
Coronary heart disease > Europe, Eastern > Congresses.
Stress (Physiology) > Congresses.
Coronary heart disease > Sex factors > Congresses.
Environmental health > Congresses.
Coronary heart disease.
Environmental health.
Sex factors in disease.
Coronary Disease
Environmental Health
Exertion
Sex Factors
Stress, Psychological > complications
Coronary Artery Disease
Stress > Congrès.
Artères coronaires > Maladies.
Hygiène du milieu.
Maladies > Facteurs sexuels.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Heart.
MEDICAL > Cardiology.
Coronary heart disease > Sex factors.
Stress (Physiology)
Maladie coronaire > Europe.
Santé environnementale > Europe.
Effort > Europe.
Facteurs sexuels > Europe.
Stress psychologique > Europe.
Herzkrankheit
Kongress
Ätiologie
Hygiène du milieu > Congrès > Europe.
Maladies coronariennes > Étiologie > Congrès.
Europe.
Europe
Europe, Eastern
Central Europe.
Eastern Europe.
Congress
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Budapest (2000)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Annotation This book addresses one major question: Why do men get more heart disease than women? Recent global trends in heart disease show that traditional coronary risk factors, such as elevated blood pressure and cholesterol are poor candidates in explaining the gender gap in heart disease. Changes in these risk factors also cannot explain the recent cardiovascular disease epidemic among middle-aged men in Eastern Europe. This book will focus on environmental, behavioral, and psychosocial variables, as well as new risk factors of a biological nature in an attempt to understand the gender gap in heart disease. It combines perspectives from numerous disciplines, such as demography, epidemiology, medicine, sociology, and psychology. This book features the work of a distinguished group of international researchers appearing in Richard Stone's report on "Stress: the invisible hand in Eastern Europe's death rates" (Science, vol. 288, June 9, 2000, pp. 1732-33). It combines perspectives from numerous disciplines, such as demography, epidemiology, medicine, nutrition, sociology, and psychology to explore the environmental, behavioral, and psychosocial influences on men's greater susceptibility to heart disease
Notas:"Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Increase in Coronary Heart Disease in Central and Eastern Europe: Stress and Gender Related Factors, 20-24 May 2000, Budapest, Hungary"--Title page verso
"Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xx, 384 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:0585458936
9780585458939
1586030825
9781586030827
ISSN:1566-7693 ;

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