Heart and Arterial Disease

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The book , Heart & Arterial Disease

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Author S. J.Gislason MD

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Preface
Heart and Arterial Disease
Inflammation
The Heart
Arteries and Blood Flow
Veins
Blood
Blood and Immune Networks
Network Compartments
Circulating Immune Complexes
CICs and Complement
Heart Attacks and Stokes
The Drug Bias
Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke
Arterial Disease Is Part of a Package Deal
Public Health Versus the Doctor’s Office
Alpha Nutrition Program
Dietary Fat
Other Arterial Pathogens
Women & Estrogen
Weight Management
Obesity
Fat Burning, Wrong Ideas
Fat Is Not the Only Pathogen in Food
The Solution: Diet Revision & Exercise
Alpha Nutrition Program Strategy
Recommendations
Lower Caloric Intake
Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet
Why the Alpha Nutrition Program?
Modifications to the Alpha Nutrition Program
Exercise Prevents
Exercise Information
Modes of Exercise
Aerobic Exercise
Fat Burning – Wrong Ideas
Rating Exercise by Energy Consumption
Heart Rate Goals for Exercise
Weight Training and Muscular Fitness
Isotonic and Isometric
Exercise Programs
Level 1:  Basic Fitness Level
Level  2:  Light to Medium Aerobics
Level 3:  Athletic Exercise
Lactic Acidosis
Too Much Protein
Nutrition & Biochemistry
Fats
Fatty Acids
Fat Transport and Utilization
Cholesterol & Atherosclerosis
Minerals
Sodium and Potassium
Calcium
Magnesium
Iron
Vitamins
Folic Acid
Vitamin B6  Pyridoxine
Vitamin B12 - Cobalamin
Vitamins and Homocysteine
Folic Acid and Alzheimer’s Disease
Vitamin B1 Thiamin
Vitamin E
Atherosclerosis
Cholesterol Transporters - LDL & HDL
The Evolution of Plaques
Predictors of Heart Attacks
The Metabolic Solution of Atherosclerosis
Lab Values
Sugars
Food Proteins as Antigens
Proteins, Vitamins and Homocysteine
Coronary Artery Disease
Angina
ASA and other platelet inhibitors
Heart Attack
Heart Attack Signs & Symptoms
Tissue Plasminogen Activator (TPA)
Per Cutaneous Intervention
Statins, Miracle Drugs?
Hypertension
Blood Pressure Definitions
Blood Pressure Overview
Renin, Angiotensin
Essential Hypertension
Measuring Blood Pressure
Five Steps to Normal Blood Pressure
Drug Therapy of Hypertension
Stroke
Inflammation
Potassium
Atrial Fibrillation
Peripheral Arterial Disease
Heart Failure
Abstracts from the Medical Literature
Dietary factors in hypertension.
Nutrition improves cardiovascular risk in hypertension.
Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering to Prevent Heart Attack
Diabetes: Good News and Bad News
The ALLHAT blood pressure study: Summary
Prevention, Detection and Treatment of High Blood Pressure
Effects of Dietary Patterns on Blood Pressure
Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet
Dietary calcium intake in hypertension.
Antihypertensive drugs, dietary salt, and renal protection
Salt…. hypertensive target organ disease?
Dietary calcium and blood pressure
Serum homocysteine level & risk of microalbuminuria
Obesity and the Risk of Heart Failure
Dietary intake of folate and risk of stroke in US
Increased Coronary Restenosis  & Homocysteine Levels.
Plasma Homocysteine Risk Factor for Dementia
Dietary glycemic load and risk of coronary heart disease
Cerebrovascular events in hyperhomocysteinemia
Uric acid serum concentration & ischemic stroke.
Neurocognitive Function after Coronary-Artery Bypass
Coronary Inflammation in Unstable Angina
Induction of mucosal tolerance to e-selectin
Cyclooxygenase inhibitors & antiplatelet effects of aspirin.
Gastrointestinal safety of NO-aspirin (NCX-4016)
Aspirin-resistant thromboxane biosynthesis
Benefit-risk assessment of Rosuvastatin 10 to 40 milligrams.
Platelets: is aspirin sufficient or must we know how to pronounce abciximab?
Antiplatelet drugs: how to select them and possibilities of combined treatment.
A healthy heart in a single pill
Appendices
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