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Volume 1, Issue 4

Issue date: 01 September 2016

Introduction Ezra A. Amsterdam	367
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease Christopher Estel, C. Richard Conti	369
Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Danny J. Eapen, William M. Schultz, Robert E. Heinl …	379
Smoking and Passive Smoking Russell V. Luepker	391
ACC/AHA Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Cholesterol Management: Implications of New Therapeutic Agents Nathan D. Wong	399
Management of Hypertension: JNC 8 and Beyond Ezra A. Amsterdam, Sandhya Venugopal, Jonathan Bui …	409
Psychosocial Risk Factors and Cardiovascular Disease: Epidemiology, Screening, and Treatment Considerations Alan Rozanski	417
The Gut Microbiota and Atherosclerosis: The State of the Art and Novel Perspectives Giulio La Rosa, Luigi Marzio Biasucci	433
Inflammasomes and Atherosclerosis S. Vallurupalli, Yao Dai, J. L. Mehta	443
Outcome Trials in the Therapeutic Management of Hypertension in East Asians Ji-Guang Wang, Yan Li	451
What Do We Mean by “Preventive Medicine”? C. Richard Conti	461