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I Introduction
1 Approach to the Patient and Her Family 3
2 When and How to Assess the Asymptomatic Woman 8
II Coronary Heart Disease Risk and Prevention
3 Epidemiology and Prevention of Heart Disease 23
4 Lipids 29
5 Carbohydrate Metabolism, Obesity, and Diabetes Mellitus 39
6 Diet, Nutrition, and Coronary Heart Disease 71
7 Hypertension 93
8 Smoking Cessation 140
9 Hemostasis and Thrombosis 157
10 Physical Activity 178
11 Psychosocial and Socioeconomic Risk Factors for Heart Disease 191
III Hormones and Heart Disease
12 Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Estrogen's Actions 207
13 Lessons from Animal Models 231
14 Lessons from Human Trials 257
15 Prescribing Hormone Replacement Therapy 278
IV Clinical Coronary Heart Disease
16 Chronic Stable Angina 291
17 Acute Coronary Syndromes 316
18 Diagnostic Testing - Nonimaging and Imaging 342
19 Angiography and Angioplasty 357
20 Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery 372
21 Implementing Strategies for the Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease 383
V Other Cardiovascular Diseases
22 Valvular Heart Disease 405
23 Gender Influences on Myocardial Structure and Function 426
24 Stroke and Peripheral Vascular Diseases in Women 445
25 Cardiovascular Syndrome X 460
VI Pregnancy
26 Normal Cardiovascular Physiology of Pregnancy 471
27 Preexisting Heart Disease 488
28 Heart Disease Arising from Pregnancy 502
29 Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Therapeutic Options during Pregnancy 510
Index 525