Cardiovascular disease in racial and ethnic minorities

Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Acknowledgment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii 1 Cardiovascular Disease in Racial/Ethnic Minorities: OverviewandPerspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 K.C. Ferdinand and A. Armani 2 Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors Among Racial/Ethnic Populations in theUnitedStates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 G.A. Mensah 3 Unmasking Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease: Nutritional, Socioeconomic, Cultural, and Health-Care-Related Contributions . . . . . . . . 51 J.M. Flack, S.A. Nasser, A. Goel, M. “Toni” Flowers, S.O’Connor and E. Faucett 4 Race andGenetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 R.A. Kittles and J. Benn-Torres 5 Race, Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease . . . . . . . . . . . 93 Ivor J. Benjamin and Theophilus Owan 6 Hypertension and Stroke in Racial/Ethnic Groups . . . . . . . . 103 K.A. Jamerson and T.L. Corbin 7 Dyslipidemia in Racial/Ethnic Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119 L.T. Clark and S. Shaheen 8 Novel & Emerging Risk Factors in Racial/Ethnic Groups . . . . 139 K.E. Watson 9 Weight Loss Interventions to Control Blood Pressure in an Increasingly Overweight, Multi-ethnic Society . . . . . . 151 10 Obesity and the Cardiometabolic Syndrome: Impact on Chronic Kidney Disease and CVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Abrar Ahmed, Guido Lastra, Camila Manrique and James R. Sowers 11 Risk Calculation and Clustering Within Racial/Ethnic Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 P.W.F. Wilson 12 Cardiovascular Imaging in Racial/Ethnic Populations: Implications for the Adequate Application of Cardiovascular Imaging Techniques Guided by Racial/EthnicRiskFactorVariations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 A.N. Makaryus, J.H. Mieres and L.J. Shaw 13 Unique Aspects of Vascular and Cardiac Ultrasound in Racial/Ethnic Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Robert L. Gillespie and Icilma V. Fergus 14 Heart Failure in Racial/Ethnic Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269 M.R. Echols and C.W. Yancy 15 Minority Women and Cardiovascular Disease . . . . . . . . . . 297 A.L. Taylor and L. Bellumkonda Subject Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321