(Ebook) Biology of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases by Chaya Gopalan, Erik Kirk ISBN 9780128234211, 0128234210

(Ebook) Biology of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases by Chaya Gopalan, Erik Kirk ISBN 9780128234211, 0128234210

Teaching health science majors about thebiology of cardiovascular and metabolicdisease in a straightforward yet conciseway has always been our passion. It is essentialfor students who would work in healthcare to learn about the significant cardiovascularand metabolic diseases they would encounterin their careers. In addition, studentsmust have a good understanding of themany metabolic pathways/mechanisms associatedwith these conditions to providequality support. For example, only recentlyhave we learned about the role of inflammationand the interaction with specific genes incontributing to various diseases. It is also vitalfor students to understand how diet andexercise could prevent or treat these conditions.These are just some of the critical areasfor health science students to learn as theywill someday work in various areas such asexercise science, nutrition, dietetics, medicine,nursing, physical therapy, occupationaltherapy, and athletic training, among others.While the amount and type of treatment varyby profession, all health professionals havepatients with one or more common conditions.We strongly feel that health sciencestudents would benefit by having a basic understandingof the more common cardiovascularand metabolic diseases. Even if they arenot directly treating the condition(s), practitionersshould still understand how andwhy they developed since many of their patientswill have these conditions. However,upon researching the best textbook for abasic understanding of the more commoncardiovascular and metabolic diseases, wefound that the choices were minimal. Someexcellent pathophysiology books go intogreat detail over various diseases, but thesetextbooks are too advanced for an introductorycourse. We also found that they containmany details over conditions that, althoughnecessary, were not very common. Thereforewe decided to develop an introductory textbookfocused on the more common cardiovascularand metabolic diseases in thehealth sciences.