Cardiovascular Disease in Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations (2^nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2021) Contemporary Cardiology Series

The book discusses the impact of genetics, social determinants of health, the environment, and lifestyle in the burden of cardiometabolic conditions in African American and Hispanic/Latinx populations. It includes fully updated and revised chapters on genetics and CVD risk, epidemiology of cardiovascular health, cardiovascular imaging, dyslipidemias and other emerging risk factors, obesity and metabolic syndrome, heart failure, and genetic variations in CVD. Unique aspects within African American and Hispanic/Latinx populations are explored with suggested appropriate therapeutic interventions. New chapters focus on ASCVD risk assessment, emerging precision medicine concepts, the impact of diabetes, resilience and CVD survival, and lifestyle and dieting considerations. Written by a team of experts, the book examines the degree to which biomedical and scientific literature can clarify the impact of genetic variation and environment on cardiovascular disease.

 

The Second Edition of Cardiovascular Disease in Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations is an essential resource for physicians, residents, fellows, and medical students in cardiology, internal medicine, family medicine, clinical lipidology, and epidemiology.

1. Overview and Perspectives: Cardiovascular Disease in Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the era of COVID-19.- 2. Introduction to Precision Medicine: Minority Populations and Cardiovascular Health.- 3. Lipoprotein (a): A Cardiovascular Risk Factor affecting Ethnic Minorities.- 4. Emerging Precision Medicine Concepts and Cardiovascular Health in African Americans and Hispanics.- 5. The Implementation Frontier: Impact on Cardiovascular Health in Racial and Ethnic Minority Populations.- 6. Genomic Approaches to Hypertension.- 7. Heart Failure in African Americans and Hispanic Americans; a persistent and disproportionate burden in under-represented minorities.- 8. Heterogeneity, Nativity, and Disaggregation of Cardiovascular Risk and Outcomes in Hispanic Americans.- 9. Cardiovascular Epidemiology in Hispanics/Latinos: Lessons Learned from HCHS/SOL.- 10. Lessons Learned from the Jackson Heart Study.- 11. Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in the Hispanic/Latino Population.- 12. Progress in ASCVD Risk Assessment in African Americans and Hispanic Americans.- 13. CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE IN MINORITIES - Unique Considerations: Hypertension in African and Hispanic Americans.- 14. Weight Loss, Lifestyle, and Dietary Factors in Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans and Hispanics.- 15. Coronary Calcium Scoring In African American and Hispanic Patients.- 16. Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans.- 17. Cardiac Amyloid Heart Disease in Racial/Ethnic Minorities: Focus on Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy .- 18. Imaging for the Assessment and Management of Cardiovascular Disease in Women and Minority Populations.

Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA

School of Medicine

Tulane University 

New Orleans, LA

USA

Herman A. Taylor, Jr., MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA

School of Medicine

Cardiovascular Research Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA

USA

Carlos J. Rodriguez, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA

School of Medicine

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Bronx, NY

USA