Environment and Public Health Aspects of Cardiovascular Diseases

Call for Papers

The morbidity and mortality related to cardiovascular diseases pose a significant burden on individuals, communities, and health services globally. Because of the demographic and nutritional transition coupled with rapid urbanization leading to changing lifestyle, in the presence of lack of preventive, therapeutic, and suboptimal healthcare infrastructure, the problem is compounded in populations of many countries. Fortunately, the etiology, pathology, and management of cardiovascular diseases are reasonably well understood, and evidence suggests that CVD can be prevented. This special issue of the journal will focus on integrating knowledge on all aspects of cardiovascular disease specially environmental and biological determinants, pathogenesis, as well as the preventive and clinical dimensions, especially how to intervene with innovative and affordable means to most effectively reduce the disease burden.

In this special issue of the journal, we invite original research work on the following topics, but we are also open to critical and systematic review articles. Specific topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Social determinants and gender issues for cardiovascular disease
• Environmental contaminants as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (e.g., air pollution, water contaminants, nanoparticles, and PCB)
• Antioxidants and myocardial infarction
• Atherosclerosis risk in communities
• Hypertension and cardiovascular disease: relations to atherosclerosis and endothelial dysfunction
• Triglycerides and cardiovascular disease
• Familial factors and coronary heart disease
• Genetic epidemiology of coronary artery disease and atherosclerosis
• Strategies for primary and secondary prevention measures for heart health
• NCD epidemic and global challenges of addressing cardiovascular diseases
• Equity and inequity in cardiovascular diseases
• Policy responses: global and local dimensions

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/jeph/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Mahfuzar Rahman, Public Health Sciences Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Guest Editors

• Tazeen H. Jafar, Department of Community Health Sciences and Medicine, The Aga Khan University, Karachi 74800, Pakistan
• Yu Chen, Department of Environmental Medicine, New York University, USA
• Abul Hasnat Milton, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia