Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes

Overview

Understand the link between diabetes and cardiovascular disease-with this quick-access clinical guide

This guide takes you step-by-step through the evaluation and treatment of cardiovascular disease in diabetes patients. The book is authored by an internationally recognized diabetes expert and has a distinguished roster of contributors who deliver important diagnostic and therapeutic strategies not found in general cardiology texts.

Table of contents

Introduction:
Foreword: Valentin Fuster
Preface: Luther T. Clark

1. Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes: An Epidemiologic
Luther T. Clark

2. Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Disease in Diabetes
Samy I. McFarlane, Yohannes Gebreegzioabher, Chard Bubb and
AmgadN. Makaryus

3. Diabetes as a Coronary Risk Equivalent
Luther T. Clark, Paramdeep Baweja, and Uzodinma R. Dim


4. Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes in Diabetic Patients
Jonathan D. Marmur and Cristina Mitre

5. Sudden Cardiac Death in the Diabetic Patient
John Kassotis and Spyros Kokolis

6. Syncope in the Diabetic Patient
John Kassotis

7. Diabetic Cardiomyopathy
Judith E. Mitchell

8. Treatment of Dyslipidemia of Type 2 Diabetes
Clinton Brown and John LaRosa

9. Hypertension, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease
Michael Weber


10. Fitness and Exercise Rehabilitation for the Heart Disease Patient with Diabetes Mellitus
Roseann Chesler

11. The Assessment and Reduction of Cardiac Risk in Diabetics in Noncardiac Surgery
Jason Lazar

12. Cardiac Surgery in Patients with Diabetes
Robert Lowery, MD

13. Chronic Kidney Disease and Cardiorenal Complications
Nagarathna Manjappa, Amir Hayat, and Moro O. Salifu


14. The Metabolic Syndrome
Luther T. Clark and Suzette Graham-Hill


15. Cardiovascular Disease and Hyperglycemia
Mary Ann Banerji

16. Cardiovascular Imaging in Diabetics
Jason Lazar and Louis Salciccioli


17. Hemostatic Abnormalities in Diabetes: Hematology for the Cardiologist
Manish Lakhani, Spyros Kokolis, Erdal Cavusoglu, Gerald Soff and Jonathan D. Marmur

18. Diabetes, Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and CVD in Women
Judie LaRosa and John LaRosa

19. Diabetes, Sleep Disorders, and Cardiovascular Disease
Girardin Jean-Louis, Ferdinand Zizi, Luther T. Clark and John Kassotis


20. Health Disparities and Cardiovascular Disease
Luther T. Clark, Rugh C. Browne, Ronald Kokolis, Marilyn White and Susan Morales

21. Long-term Management of CVD and Diabetes: A Best-Practices Approach
Luther T. Clark, Karen Scott-Collins, Reba Williams

22. Cardiovascular Disease in Patients with Diabetes: Emerging Trends
Luther T. Clark, MD

Biographical note

Luther T. Clark, MD, FACC, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.