Cardiovascular disease represents the most common cause of death in women in both developed and developing countries affecting high, middle and low income social strata. This book serves to reinforce important concepts and issues in the assessment of heart disease in women.

Cardiovascular disease in women: myths and facts about a silent epidemic / Rachana Kulkarni, Anand Kulkarni -- Prevention of heart disease in women / Rachana Kulkarni, Anand Kulkarni -- Sex differences in the effects of leading and most prevalent modifiable risk factors / Sanne AE Peters, Yvonne T van der Schouw, Mark Woodward, Rachel R Huxley -- Dyslipidemia in women / Lale Tokgozoglu, Uægur Canpolat -- Familial hypercholesterolemia in women: its identification and management / Gopal Ghimire, Navin C Nanda -- Cardiovascular dysfunction in women with metabolic syndrome / Sibel Catirli Enar, Anant Kharod, Navin C Nanda -- Hypertension in women / Keith C Ferdinand, Samar A Nasser -- Stroke and women / Nese Keser, Necati Sirmaci, Luis D Meggo Quiroz, Navin C Nanda -- Women and smoking / Nurgül Keser, Cevdet Erdöl, Luis D Meggo Quiroz, Navin C Nanda -- Job burnout, job strain (stress), and cardiovascular disease: selected review / Aryana Jacobs, Zinzi Bailey, Michelle A Albert -- Atherosclerosis and autoimmune disease: mechanisms and emerging treatments / Mackram F Eleid, Sharon L Mulvagh, Rekha Mankad -- Hormonal transitions and the cardiovascular system in women / Juliana M Kling, Virginia M Miller, Sharon L Mulvagh -- A perspective on women and coronary heart disease / Ezra A Amsterdam -- Chest pain evaluation in women presenting to the emergency department / Kumar Sanam, Kelli Chaviano, Navin C Nanda -- Stable ischemic heart disease in women / Rebecca D Levit, Jane S Titterington, Nanette K Wenger -- Acute coronary syndromes in women / Ankit Mehra, Kul Aggarwal -- Echocardiography in women / Jennifer Kiessling, Nurgül Keser, Navin C Nanda, Tugba Kemaloglu Oz, Aylin Sungur, Kunal Bhagatwala, Nidhi Karia -- Noninvasive stress testing in women / Francesca Mantovani, Sahar S Abdelmoneim, Victoria Zysek, Sharon L Mulvagh -- Stress myocardial perfusion imaging-diagnosis and risk assessment in women / Suman Tandon, Manish Tandon -- Women and heart failure / Cynthia C Taub, Julie J Ramos, Mary L Rosser, Sobia Mujtaba, Ileana L Piña -- Myocarditis and pericarditis in women / Anant Kharod, Navin C Nanda -- Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in women / Kelli Chaviano, Kumar Sanam, Navin C Nanda -- Arrhythmias and implantable devices in women / Deepika Narasimha, Anne B Curtis -- Ventricular arrhythmia in women / Anurag Singh, Navin C Nanda -- Rheumatic heart disease in women / Anita Saxena -- Native valvular heart disease in women / IB Vijayalakshmi, Chitra Narasimhan -- Gender differences in outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve replacement / Peter C Block -- Pregnancy and heart disease / Akila Subramaniam, Joseph R Biggio -- Management of heart disease in pregnancy: a clinician's approach / Reema Chugh -- Peripartum cardiomyopathy / Lori A Blauwet -- Congenital heart disease in women / Reema Chugh -- Peripheral arterial disease in women: the unmet challenge / Amy West Pollak, Sharon L Mulvagh -- Cardiovascular implications of cancer in women / Charu Gandotra -- Heart disease in women: an update on recently published literature / Stephanie El-Hajj, Navin C Nanda, Fadi G Hage.