Dedication: A Tribute to Dr Bohuslav Ostdal. Preface. Acknowledgements. I: Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Disease. 1. Inflammation and Cardiovascular Disease; J.T. Willerson. 2. The Role of Inflammation in Cardiac Function and Repair; M.L. Entman, et al. 3. Cardiac Repair Following Infarction; Yao Sun, K.T. Weber. 4. Protein and Phospholipids Composition of Human Myocardium in Children with Congenital Heart Disease; V. Pelouch, et al. 5. Human Atherosclerosis: New Participants? Yu.A. Romanov, et al. 6. Aging and Dietary Lipids Modulate Ca2+-Dependent Mitochondrial Function in the Post-Ischemic Heart; S. Pepe. 7. The Role of Nuclear Receptors in HDL Formation; G.A. Francis. 8. Vascular Complications in Diabetes: Risk Factors and Pathogenic Correlates; P.K. Chohan, et al. 9. Hypercholesterolemia and Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetic Patients; C. Bolego, et al. 10. Altered Substrate Utilization in the Diabetic Heart: Role of Lipoprotein Lipase; T. Chacko, et al. 11. Does Reperfusion Injury Cause Any Injury to the Myocardium? P. Ostadal, et al. 12. Fulminant Myocarditis From Lethal Disease to Survival; T. Izumi, et al. 13. Homosysteine/Coronary Atherosclerosis and Cardiac Transplantation: A Case Control Study; R.N. Kundur, et al. 14. Drug Development Based on Functional Genomics of Overloaded Cardiomyocytes: CPT1 vs. PPARalpha Effects of Etomoxir; H. Rupp, et al. 15. Mutational Profiles and Molecular Etiologies of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Dilated Cardiomyopathy in Asian Populations; A. Kimura, et al. II:Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Health. 16. Flavanol-Rich Foods and Cardiovascular Health; C.L. Keen, et al. 17. Benefits of Dietary Fiber for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes; Qiming Shao, P.M. Keagy. 18. Nutrition and the Brain-Heart Connection; R.B. Singh, et al. 19. Vitamin D and Atherosclerosis: A Noteworthy Link; C.C. Kartha, S. Rajasree. 20. Congestive Heart Failure as Metabolic Disease; J. Moravec. 21. Conditioned Nutritional Requirements: Therapeutic Relevance to Heart Failure; M.J. Sole, K.N. Jeejeebhoy. 22. Stress and Dietary Fat Influence Cell Membranes and Death Due to Ventricular Fibrillation and Heart Failure; S. Gudbjarnason, V.E. Benediktsdottir. 23. Pharmacotherapeutics of Diabetic Cardiomyopathy; R.K. Goyal, N.S. Dhalla. 24. Atherosclerotic Regression A Myth or Reality; A. Kumar, et al. 25. Monolayers of Apolipoprotein AII at the Air/Water Interface; J. Mas-Oliva, et al. 26. Changing Partially Hydrogenated Fat for Palmitic Acid in the Diet Increases LDL-Cholesterol and Endogenous Cholesterol Synthesis in Normocholesterolemic Women; M.A. French, et al. 27. Cytoprotection of Cardiac Myocytes by Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids; A. Grynberg. 28. The Effects of Taurine and Astragalus Membranaceus on Ion Currents and Their Expression in Cardiomyocytes after CBV3 Infection; Ying-Zhen Yang, et al. 29. CoQ10 in the Treatment of Heart and Vascular Disease; R.B. Singh, et al. III: Lifestyle and Global Cardiovascular Burden. 30. Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease: Impending Pandemic in Developing Countries an