Product Description: The Complete Guide to Women's Heart Health explains how gradual and sustainable shifts in your routine, such as using just a little more than one percent of your time each week to exercise or losing just 10 percent of your body weight, can have a far-reaching impact on your health. With specific pointers on diet, exercise, and health care, this book shows you how to get past the common obstacles as well as how to make taking care of your heart easy and attainable for the busy life you lead, at every age.
 
In chapters targeted for every decade of a woman's life from her 20s to her 70s and beyond, the American Heart Association gives women age-appropriate advice on healthy lifestyle choices and heart-health care. Additional information addressing issues of special interest to women and how those issues affect the heart include:
 
·        Smoking
·        Pregnancy
·        Menopause and hormone therapy
·        Aging
·        Diabetes and other health conditions

American Heart Association Complete Guide to Women's Heart Health: The Go Red for Women Way to Well-Being & Vitality (Hardcover)

Advances in Cardiovascular Engineering (Paperback)

Product Description: This textbook details the cardiovascular and autonomic effects of aerobic vs. resistance exercise training on the vessels and autonomic systems. Exercise training responses show favorable adaptations on lowering blood pressure while additional benefits of improved blood flow and greater autonomic control are greater benefits. The benefits of resistance training are also shown to aid individuals with hypertension which have not been previously elucidated.

Cardiovascular benefits of exercise in hypertensive individuals: Differences between aerobic and resistance training on human vasculature and cardiovascular and autonomic parameters (Paperback)

Product Description: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Cardio-Vascular Diseases (Romanian Edition) (Paperback)

Product Description: Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects reviews available scientific literature to assess the relationship between secondhand smoke exposure and acute coronary events. The authors, experts in secondhand smoke exposure and toxicology, clinical cardiology, epidemiology, and statistics, find that there is about a 25 to 30 percent increase in the risk of coronary heart disease from exposure to secondhand smoke. Their findings agree with the 2006 Surgeon General's Report conclusion that there are increased risks of coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality among men and women exposed to secondhand smoke. However, the authors note that the evidence for determining the magnitude of the relationship between chronic secondhand smoke exposure and coronary heart disease is not very strong.

Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects: Making Sense of the Evidence (Paperback)

Product Description: An Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology provides the student with the key concepts of cardiovascular physiology, from the fundamentals of how the cardiovascular system wroks in both health and disease, through to a consideration of more complex physiological mechanisms. This brand new companion work, Cardiovascular Physiology: Questions for Self-Assessment allows students to test themselves on all aspects of the topic with over 200 questions and answers, at a pace to suit their learning. Questions follow An Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology's table of contents, and the author has set at least one question on each chapter's learning objective to help the student assess their progress against the set objectives.

Cardiovascular Physiology Questions for Self Assessment (A Hodder Arnold Publication) (Paperback)

Product Description: "Cardiovascular Solid Mechanics: Cells, Tissues, and Organs" is a vital resource for courses on cardiovascular solid mechanics or soft tissue biomechanics. Focusing on the response of the heart and blood vessels to mechanical loads from the perspective of nonlinear solid mechanics, its primary goal is to integrate basic analytical, experimental, and computational methods to offer a more complete understanding of the underlying mechanobiology. While dealing primarily with cardiovascular mechanics, both the fundamental methods and many of the specific results are applicable to many different soft tissues, making this book an excellent general introduction to soft tissue biomechanics overall. Divided into three parts, "Cardiovascular Solid Mechanics" presents a practical and rational approach to biomechanics. Part I, "Foundations," briefly reviews historical points of interest, basic molecular and cell biology, and histology, and gives an overview of sift tissue mechanics. In order to provide not only a working framework, but also to give key references for those who wish to develop and extend biomechanics, included are mathematical preliminaries and salient results from continuum mechanics, finite elasticity, experimental mechanics, and finite elements.

Cardiovascular Solid Mechanics: Cells, Tissues, and Organs (Paperback)

Product Description: Although cardiac output is measured as the flow of blood from the left ventricle into the aorta, the system that controls cardiac output includes many other components besides the heart itself. The heart's rate of output cannot exceed the rate of venous return to it, and therefore, the factors governing venous return are primarily responsible for control of output from the heart. Venous return is affected by its pressure gradient and resistance to flow throughout the vascular system. The pressure gradient for venous return is a function of several factors including the blood volume flowing through the system, the unstressed vascular volume of the circulatory system, its capacitance, mean systemic pressure, and right atrial pressure. Resistance to venous return is the sum of total vascular resistance from the aortic valve to the right atrium. The sympathetic nervous system and vasoactive circulating hormones affect short-term resistance, whereas local tissue blood flow autoregulatory mechanisms are the dominant determinants of long-term resistance to venous return.

Control of Cardiac Output (Colloquium Series on the Cell Biology of Medicine) (Paperback)

Product Description: Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is a branch of rehabilitation medicine dealing with optimising physical function in patients with cardiac diseases. CR services are generally provided in an outpatient setting as comprehensive, long-term programs involving medical evaluation, prescribed exercise, cardiac risk factor modification, education and counselling. While the 'glue' of cardiac rehabilitation is exercise, programs are evolving to become comprehensive prevention centres where all aspects of preventive cardiology care are delivered. This includes nutritional therapies, weight loss programs, management of lipid abnormalities with diet and medication, blood pressure control, diabetes management and stress management.

Cardiac Rehabilitation (Cardiology Research and Clinical Developments) (Hardcover)

Product Description: The seven papers of this volume present a glimpse into current research on soft tissue mechanics as well as some future directions. The seven papers concern tissues within the cardiovascular system: three focus on arteries, three on the heart, and one on biaxial testing of planar tissues such as heart valves. Given that cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death in the developed world, the importance of such research is clear. There are notable common features of the seven papers. First, most of the proposed constitutive relations are motivated directly by data on the underlying microstructure, and especially the orientations of a structurally important protein (collagen) that forms as undulated cross-linked fibers. Another feature of most of the papers is the consideration of the fact that both arteries and the heart contain muscle and that there is a need to quantify the so-called active (contractile) response in addition to the passive (non-contractile) response.

Cardiovascular Soft Tissue Mechanics (Paperback)