Heart disease : environment, stress, and gender /

Heart disease : environment, stress, and gender /

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Meeting name:	NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Increase in Coronary Heart Disease in Central and Eastern Europe: Stress and Gender Related Factors (2000 : Budapest, Hungary)
Imprint:	Amsterdam ; Washington, DC : IOS Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xx, 384 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	NATO science series. Series I, Life and behavioural sciences, 1566-7693 ; v. 327 NATO science series. Series I, Life and behavioural sciences ; v. 327.
Subject:	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. Coronary heart disease -- Sex factors. Environmental health. Stress (Physiology) Coronary Disease -- Europe -- Congresses. Coronary Disease -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses. Environmental Health -- Europe -- Congresses. Environmental Health -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses. Exertion -- Europe -- Congresses. Exertion -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses. Sex Factors -- Europe -- Congresses. Sex Factors -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses. Stress, Psychological -- complications -- Europe -- Congresses. Stress, Psychological -- complications -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses. Central Europe. Eastern Europe. Conference papers and proceedings. Congress. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11126820

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Other authors / contributors:	Weidner, Gerdi. Kopp, Mária. Kristenson, Margareta. North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division.
ISBN:	0585458936 9780585458939 1586030825 9781586030827
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	"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." Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Increase in Coronary Heart Disease in Central and Eastern Europe: Stress and Gender Related Factors (2000 : Budapest, Hungary). Heart disease. Amsterdam ; Washington, DC : IOS Press, ©2002 1586030825 4274905071