The thoroughly updated second edition of this key textbook provides an authoritative discussion of cardiovascular disease for the practicing primary care clinician. It examines a variety of disease states with emphasis on risk factors, risk estimation, and established cardiac disease. The book also explores the co-morbid conditions that surround cardiovascular disease. It includes key points, algorithms, case studies, recommendations on evidence-based practice, and summary boxes. A key resource for the busy practitioner, the Second Edition of Comprehensive Cardiovascular Medicine in the Primary Care Setting is designed to give residents, fellows, and primary care physicians the skills to confidently perform assessments, initiate and maintain efficacious therapy, and know when a referral to a cardiologist is advisable.

Part I: Cardiovascular Risk Factors.- Epidemiologic Characterization of Risk for Cardiovascular Disease.- Risk Quantitation: 10-year and Lifetime Estimation.- Hypertension.- Dyslipidemia.- Obesity and Therapeutic Approaches to Weight Loss.- Inflammatory Markers and Novel Risk Factors.- Deciphering Cardiovascular Genomics and How They Apply to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention.- Metabolic Syndrome.- Type I Diabetes Mellitus.- Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.- Chronic Kidney Disease.- Part II: Coronary Artery Disease.- Evaluation of Chest Pain and Myocardial Ischemia.- Unstable Angina and NSTEMI.- ST Segment Elevated Myocardial Infarction.- Coronary Artery Stenting.- Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.- Cardiac Rehabilitation. -Part III: Peripheral Forms of Venous and Arterial Disease.- Carotid Artery Disease.- Peripheral Arterial Disease.- Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism.- Pulmonary Hypertension and Cor Pulmonale.- Management of Ischemic Cerebrovascular Accident.- Aortic Aneurysms.- Erectile Dysfunction.- Part IV: Cardiac Disease.- Cardiac Valvular Disease.- Pericardial Diseases.- Common Atrial and Ventricular Arrhythmias.- Congestive Heart Failure.- Part V: Cardiac Imaging.- Coronary Calcium Scoring.- Cardiac CT Angiography.- Cardiac MRI Imaging.