Gholamreza Sarabi

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the first most important health issue of the twenty-first century, and the most important cause of mortality in Iran. According to statistics, 2 million Iranians are suffering from coronary heart disease. The Research Committee of the Iranian Society of Cardiac Surgeons has announced that the age of exposure to cardiovascular disease in Iran is approximately 7-10 years less than other countries. In developed countries, people are exposed to this disease in the sixth decade of their lives. However, most of the people in Iran are exposed to this disease during the fifth decade of their life. There are about 50 thousand heart surgeries performed annually in Iran. The psychiatric disorders factors as independent risk factors have an important part in physical chronic diseases, particularly coronary heart disease. Findings of this study revealed that psychiatric factors have a very important role in the etiology, development, duration, and outcome of CHD disease. The high co-morbidity between psychiatric disorders and coronary heart disease needs more attention.

Lifestyle and heart health and disease provides a comprehensive evaluation of lifestyle factors that modify heart function and structure. It includes coverage of a wide range of lifestyle factors, including physical activity(low or lack of exercise), alcohol consumption(positive relation of alcohol with risks for type 2 diabetes mellitus and CVD in men and women), obesity, smoking tobacco, drugs abuse, nutrition(unhealthy diet) and psychosocial factors(decrease public knowledge of cardiovascular risk numbers: contextual factors affecting knowledge and health behavior and other risk factor is extension of peer support from diabetes management to CVD prevention and management in primary care). The book clearly presents the scientific evaluation of published research relating to general responses by scientists, physicians and patients, along with new research on the role of lifestyle in the prevention, amelioration and causation of cardiac remodeling and disease. According to these results, lifestyle changes showed exercise-based cardiovascular therapeutics especially exercise prescription for hypertension and a tailored smoking cessation program among smoker people with risk of CVD.