Early Vascular Aging (Eva): New Directions in Cardiovascular Protection (Hardcover)

Chapter 1: Historical Aspects and Biology of Aging
Chapter 2: Cellular and Molecular Determinant of Arterial Aging
Chapter 3: Changing Demography of Europe-Greying Populations
Chapter 4: Population-Based Studies
Chapter 5: Lessons from Amsterdam Growth and Health Longitudinal Study
Chapter 6: History and Findings of the BLSA
Chapter 7: Changes in Peripheral Blood Pressure with Normal and Accelerated Aging
Chapter 8: Changes in Arterial Stiffness with Normal and Accelerated Aging
Chapter 9: Changes in Central Hemodynamics, Wave Reflection and Heart-Vessel Coupling with Normal and Accelerated Aging
Chapter 10: Early Aging of Endothelial Function and Platelet-Vessel Wall Interaction
Chapter 11: The Cross-Talk between the Macro and Microcirculation
Chapter 12: Blood Pressure Variability
Chapter 13: Early Vascular Aging in Children with Low Birth Weight and/or Prematurity
Chapter 14: Age-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction and Intima-Media Thickening
Chapter 15: Glucose Metabolism, Diabetes, and the Arterial Wall
Chapter 16: Chronic Inflammation and Antherosclerosis
Chapter 17: Early and Late Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease in relation to Arterial Changes
Chapter 18: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
Chapter 19: Early and Late Stages of Brain Damage
Chapter 20: Telomere Biology and Aging
Chapter 21: Traditional versus new models of Risk Prediction
Chapter 22: Imaging Biomarkers: Aortic Stiffness and Carotid IMT as Predictors of CV Disease
Chapter 23: Genetic Markers in Prediction of CV Disease
Chapter 24: Vascular Aging and CV Disease
Chapter 25: Lifestyle Intervention: What works?
Chapter 26: Targeting BP Lowering and Sympathetic Nervous System
Chapter 27: Targeting Central BP through the Macro-Microcirculation Cross-Talk
Chapter 28: Treatment of Abnormalities in Glucose and Lipid Metabolism
Chapter 29: New Drugs under Development for Cardiovascular Prevention
Chapter 30: Interventions to retard Biological Aging to be Explored
Chapter 31: Immuniziation, Vaccines and Immunomodulation