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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Hypertens Rep. 2015 Apr;17(4):541. doi: 10.1007/s11906-015-0541-5

Table 1.

Outline of topics related to CHD

  1. Incidence

  2. Risk factors
    1. Blood pressure
      1. Prehypertension
      2. Medication nonadherence
      3. Psychosocial, behavioral, and environmental factors
      4. Apparent treatment resistant hypertension
      5. Pulse pressure
    2. Prediabetes and diabetes
    3. Dyslipidemia
    4. Diet and obesity
    5. Nontraditional risk factors
      1. Chronic kidney disease
      2. Atrial fibrillation with or without chronic kidney disease
      3. Depression and psychosocial factors
      4. High sensitivity C-reactive protein

  3. Heart failure and cognition

  4. Methodologic considerations
    1. Unrecognized myocardial infarction
    2. Troponin assays
    3. Electrocardiographic parameters
    4. Biases in epidemiological studies
    5. Use of claims-based data

  5. Prevention and quality of care

  6. Future directions