Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview and Mechanisms -- 1. Cardiovascular Diseases, Obesity and Lifestyle Changes -- 2. Public Knowledge of Cardiovascular Risk Numbers: Contextual Factors Affecting Knowledge and Health Behavior, and the Impact of Public Health Campaigns -- 3. Extension of Peer Support from Diabetes Management to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Management in Primary Care and Community Settings in Anhui Province, China -- 4. Heart health and children -- 5. Lifestyle factors and the impact on lifetime incidence and mortality of coronary heart disease -- Exercise and physical activity -- 6. Expanding the clinical classification of heart failure: Inclusion of cardiac function during exercise -- 7. Exercise-based cardiovascular therapeutics: from cellular to molecular mechanisms -- 8. Exercise, fitness, and cancer outcomes -- 9. Exercise Prescription for Hypertension: New Advances for Optimizing Blood Pressure Benefits -- 10. Exercise and Cardiovascular Disease-Emphasis on Efficacy, Dosing, and Adverse Effects and Toxicity -- 11. The Effect of Exercise Training in Systolic and Diastolic Function -- 12. Lifestyle and Heart diseases in Choice Experiments -- 13. Lost in Translation: What does the physical activity and health evidence actually tell us? -- 14. Community-Based Maintenance Cardiac Rehabilitation -- 15. Determinants of exercise ventilatory inefficiency in heart failure with reduced or preserved ejection fraction: Application of classical and emerging integrative physiology concepts -- Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs of Abuse -- 16. Relationships of alcohol consumption with risks for type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease in men and women -- 17. Lifestyle Features and Heart Disease -- 18. Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Among People Living with HIV: A Tailored Smoking Cessation Program Treating Depression -- 19. Factors associated with tobacco use among patients with multiple chronic conditions. Multidisciplinary visions about the lifestyle on health and cardiovascular disease -- Social, population and family Effects on the Heart and Arteries -- 20. Lifestyle Interventions in Patients with Serious Mental Illness -- 21. Chocolate and its Component's Effect on Heart Disease -- 22. Prediabetes: An Emerging Risk Factor for Coronary Artery Disease -- 23. Mindfulness-based therapy and heart health -- 24. Lifestyle Impact and Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Brugada Syndrome -- 25. Social Relationships and Cardiovascular Health: Underlying Mechanisms, Life Course Processes, and Future Directions -- 26. Trace Elements and Acute Coronary Artery Disease -- 27. Decompressive Hemicraniectomy for Severe Stroke: an updated review of the literature.

This text provides a comprehensive evaluation of lifestyle factors that modify heart function and structure. It includes coverage of a wide range of lifestyle factors, including physical activity, alcohol, tobacco, drugs of abuse, nutrition, and psychosocial factors. The book clearly presents the scientific evaluation of published research relating to general responses by scientists, physicians and patients, along with new research on the role of lifestyle in the prevention, amelioration, and causation of cardiac remodelling and disease.