Interdisciplinary Concepts in Cardiovascular Health Volume II: Secon
This book provides an introduction to the principles of both cardiovascular epidemiology and molecular pathophysiology; as a unique aspect, it also outlines and discusses the molecular concepts underlying epidemiological observations. This second volume i
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terdisciplinary Concepts in Cardiovascular Health Volume II: Secondary Risk Factors
Interdisciplinary Concepts in Cardiovascular Health
Ichiro Wakabayashi • Klaus Groschner Editors
Interdisciplinary Concepts in Cardiovascular Health Volume II: Secondary Risk Factors
Editors Ichiro Wakabayashi Department of Environmental and Preventive Medicine Hyogo College of Medicine Hyogo Japan
Klaus Groschner Center for Physiological Medicine Institute of Biophysics Medical University of Graz Graz Austria
ISBN 978-3-319-01049-6 ISBN 978-3-319-01050-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01050-2 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London
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Preface
According to the recent WHO statistics, cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally with an estimated 17.3 million people dying from cardiovascular disease in 2008, representing 30 % of all global deaths. Of these deaths, an estimated 7.3 and 6.2 million were attributed to coronary heart disease and stroke, respectively. Undisputedly, cardiovascular diseases are predicted to remain as the leading cause of death. Over the past decades, we have gained substantial know
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