Heart Disease: Environment, Stress, and GenderGerdi Weidner, Mária Kopp, Margareta Kristenson IOS Press, 2002 - Всего страниц: 384 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 |
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The Role of Stress and Genderrelated Factors in the Increase | 1 |
The Population Health Context for Gender Stress and Cardiovascular | 15 |
Population | 39 |
Coronary Heart Disease and Cardiovascular Mortality in the Urban | 69 |
Risk Factors and Inequality in Relation to Morbidity and Mortality | 101 |
Sociodemographic and Behavioral Correlates of Depression | 114 |
Alcohol Consumption Coping and the Gender Gap in Cardiovascular | 130 |
Psychosocial and Behavioral Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Diseases | 153 |
The Role of a Macho | 237 |
Gender Differences in Morbidity and Mortality Following a Major | 251 |
Gender Differences in Response to Disaster Susan D Solomon | 267 |
Differences between Western and Eastern | 287 |
The Role of Pathogenic and Protective Dietary Factors | 296 |
Interplay of Biological Psychological | 314 |
Possible Causes of the Differences in Coronary Heart Disease | 328 |
Atherogenic Effects of Radiation Galyna Plyushch | 341 |
Gender Differences in Stress Experienced by Myocardial Infarction | 172 |
Social Support Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality Ralf Schwarzer | 185 |
A Study of East German | 198 |
Gender Social Roles and Mental and Physical Health | 211 |
What have we learned So Far? Implications for Prevention | 353 |
Author Index | 364 |
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