BMTRY737

BMTRY 737 - Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases

DESCRIPTION

This is an advanced course designed to acquaint students with the use of epidemiology in the study and investigation of cardiovascular diseases.

TOPICS:

• Coronary heart disease: rise and fall of a modern epidemic
• Contribution of epidemiology to understanding coronary heart disease
• Established major coronary risk factors
• The Framingham experience
• The maternal and infant origins of cardiovascular disease
• Coronary risk factors in childhood
• Blood pressure in the elderly/ Coronary heart disease in the elderly
• Regional variations in coronary heart disease in Great Britain: risk factors and changes in environment
• Methods in nutritional epidemiology/ Nutrition and international patterns of disease
• Design and analysis of multicentre epidemiological studies:
• Linoleic acid, antioxidant vitamins, and coronary heart disease
• Fish, fibre, and heart disease
• Diabetes, insulin, ethnicity, and coronary heart disease
• Obesity and body fat distribution as predictors
• Exercise versus heart attack: history of a hypothesis
• The psycho-social environment, stress, and coronary heart disease
• Sex differences, hormones and coronary heart disease
• Atheroma and thrombosis in cardiovascular disease:
• Coronary risk factors and non-cardiovascular disease
• Strategies of prevention: the individual and the population
• Reduction of cholesterol-mediated risk: the role of the doctor
• Cholesterol and coronary heart disease: to screen or not to screen
• Assessing the evidence: risk and benefits
• Assessing the evidence: the role of meta-analysis
• Secondary prevention of coronary heart disease: drug intervention and life-style modification
• The primary prevention of hypertension and the population blood pressure problem
• From observation to policy: cholesterol/smoking
• Monitoring coronary heart disease in the community
• Changing individual behavior
• Community programmes in coronary heart disease prevention and health promotion

PREREQUISITES AND OFFERINGS

BMTRY 736 or consent of instructor.  Typically offered every other year in the spring semester.