preventive pediatric cardiology

Profiles in Preventive Cardiology

Chronic stress appears to play an important role in initiating and maintaining hypertension (HTN). Yoga/meditation has been demonstrated to be an excellent stress management technique and may reduce blood pressure. This article reviews the literature regarding the short and long term effects of yoga on hypertension. Though the results are mixed, many randomized studies and Meta-analysis suggest...

Pediatric Cardiology

Chest pain is an alarming complaint in children, leading an often frightened and concerned family to a pediatrician or emergency room and commonly to a subsequent referral to a pediatric cardiologist. Because of the well-known association of chest pain with significant cardiovascular disease and sudden death in adult patients, medical personnel commonly share heightened concerns over pediatric ...

Work to do in preventive cardiology.

Setting the Agenda for Preventive Cardiology.

What Is Preventive Cardiology? To some, it is a general concept encompassing a range of interests so wide to include basic research, population studies, community medicine, and public policy work. To others, it is a philosophy that informs and defines an aspect of a more general clinical practice stance, be it general cardiology, endocrinology, or internal medicine. To us, practitioners of this...

Pediatric cardiology: then and now.

It is difficult to date the start of interest in the clinical importance of congenital anomalies of the heart. Sporadic reports certainly appeared from autopsy and dissecting rooms from the seventeenth century onwards. By the eighteenth century, that most entrepreneurial of centuries, the basics of British cardiology were being laid down. Stephen Hales' physiologic researches were running in pa...

Task Force 6: Pediatric cardiology.

Introduction Pediatric cardiology was established as a subspecialty of the American Board of Pediatrics and began certification in 1951. Although the field initially comprised cardiologists with both internal medicine and pediatric training, the paths of adult and pediatric cardiology have diverged until presently there is very little overlap of interest and expertise in the areas of noninvasiv...