Lifestyle in Heart Health and Disease

Ronald Ross Watson, PhD, is Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Dr. Watson began his research in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health as a Fellow in 1971 doing field work on vaccines in Saudi Arabia. He has done clinical studies in Colombia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United States which provides a broad international view of public health. He has served in the military reserve hospital for 17 years with extensive training in medical responses to disasters as the chief biochemistry officer of a general hospital, retiring as a Lt. Colonel. He is a distinguished member of several national and international nutrition, immunology, and cancer societies. Dr. Watson’s career has involved studying many lifestyle aspects for their uses in health promotion. He has edited over 100 biomedical reference books and 450 papers and chapters. His teaching and research focuses on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs of abuse in heart function and disease in mouse models. Dr. Sherma Zibadi received her Ph.D. in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Arizona. Her medical degree and training were done at the Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. She then completed her post-doctoral research fellowship awarded by the American Heart Association where her research involved cardiology and complementary medicine studies. Her research has involved maladaptive cardiac remodeling process, which helps to identify new targets for treatment of heart failure. Dr. Zibadi’s research interest also extends into foods as medicines, exploring the preventive and therapeutic effects of dietary supplements on heart failure and its major risk factors in both basic animal and clinical studies, translating lab research findings into clinical practice. Dr. Zibadi is an author of more than 35 research papers in peer reviewed journals. She has been an editor on 8 scientific books like this one being proposed. She has edited on a variety of clinical topics: breast milk, bottle feeding, wheat and rice in health, polyphenols and health, omega 3 fatty acids, dietary supplements in immune modulation, and dietary fat and health. She and Dr. Watson have collaborated extensively on both laboratory research and editing.

• Overview and Mechanisms1. Cardiovascular Diseases, Obesity and Lifestyle Changes2. Public Knowledge of Cardiovascular Risk Numbers: Contextual Factors Affecting Knowledge and Health Behavior, and the Impact of Public Health Campaigns3. Extension of Peer Support from Diabetes Management to Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Management in Primary Care and Community Settings in Anhui Province, China4. Heart health and children5. Lifestyle factors and the impact on lifetime incidence and mortality of coronary heart diseaseExercise and physical activity6. Expanding the clinical classification of heart failure: Inclusion of cardiac function during exercise7. Exercise-based cardiovascular therapeutics: from cellular to molecular mechanisms8. Exercise, fitness, and cancer outcomes9. Exercise Prescription for Hypertension: New Advances for Optimizing Blood Pressure Benefits10. Exercise and Cardiovascular Disease-Emphasis on Efficacy, Dosing, and Adverse Effects and Toxicity11. The Effect of Exercise Training in Systolic and Diastolic Function12. Lifestyle and Heart diseases in Choice Experiments13. Lost in Translation: What does the physical activity and health evidence actually tell us?14. Community-Based Maintenance Cardiac Rehabilitation15. Determinants of exercise ventilatory inefficiency in heart failure with reduced or preserved ejection fraction: Application of classical and emerging integrative physiology conceptsAlcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs of Abuse16. Relationships of alcohol consumption with risks for type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease in men and women17. Lifestyle Features and Heart Disease18. Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Among People Living with HIV: A Tailored Smoking Cessation Program Treating Depression19. Factors associated with tobacco use among patients with multiple chronic conditions. Multidisciplinary visions about the lifestyle on health and cardiovascular diseaseSocial, population and family Effects on the Heart and Arteries20. Lifestyle Interventions in Patients with Serious Mental Illness21. Chocolate and its Component's Effect on Heart Disease22. Prediabetes: An Emerging Risk Factor for Coronary Artery Disease23. Mindfulness-based therapy and heart health24. Lifestyle Impact and Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Brugada Syndrome25. Social Relationships and Cardiovascular Health: Underlying Mechanisms, Life Course Processes, and Future Directions26. Trace Elements and Acute Coronary Artery Disease 27. Decompressive Hemicraniectomy for Severe Stroke: an updated review of the literature