Yoga in Cardiovascular Disease and Rehabilitation: Integrating Complementary Medicine into Cardiovascular Medicine highlights recent research, clinical trials and experiments on yoga and meditation as a preventative measure against various major cardiovascular diseases, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, coronary artery disease and metabolic syndromes. Chapters discuss yoga's role in ameliorating cardiac dysfunction and current knowledge on the effects of yoga on the brain, emotion, and other factors that initiate and perpetuate vascular inflammation. Cellular, genetic, and molecular effects of yoga based on experimental evidence are also covered in detail, providing readers with the latest research on the effects of yoga and meditation in heart diseases. This book also explores current knowledge gaps in yoga research to facilitate further research and is a comprehensive reference to scientists and clinicians interested in yoga's health effects, including preventing and treating diseases.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction to Heart Disease
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases and Yoga as an Adjunctive Preventative and Therapeutic Entity
- Mechanism of Yoga in Cardiovascular Diseases
- Effect of Yoga on Genes
- Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Need for Integrative Medicine to Fill the Gap
- Neurobiology of Yoga
- Yoga for Primary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease
- Yoga for Secondary Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease
- The Role of Yoga in the Management of Hypertension
- Yoga and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in African American and Hispanic Populations
- Yoga in Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
- Yoga for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
- Yoga-Based Lifestyle as a Tool to Prevent Complications of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
- The Role of Yoga in Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease
- Effects of Yoga on Metabolic Syndrome
- Yoga in the Treatment of Heart Failure
- Yoga and Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System
- Yoga and Atrial Fibrillation
- Role of Yoga in Stroke: Prevention, Management, and Rehabilitation
- Role of Yoga in Vascular Dementia and Other Dementic Conditions of the Elderly
- Cardiovascular Risk in Chronic Inflammatory Arthritis: Evidence-Based Yoga
- Yoga for Depression as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease
- Yoga for Anxiety and Psychosomatic Stress as a Risk Factor for Cardiovascular Disease
- Diet Therapy and Lifestyle Based on Yoga for Diabetes Mellitus
- Diet Therapy for Dyslipidemia: A Review of Clinical Trials
- Plant-Based Diet and Cardiovascular Health
- Cardiac Rehabilitation and Yoga
- Yoga for Post Cardiac Surgery Rehabilitation
- The Role of Yoga in Palliative Care Settings
- Yoga for Addiction Management
- Role of Yoga in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in the Indian Population
Authors
Indranill Basu Ray Cardiologist and Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Memphis VA Medical Center; Adjunct Professor, The University of Memphis, TN, USA. Dr. Basu Ray is currently a staff Cardiologist and Cardiac Electrophysiologist at the Memphis Veterans Medical Center in Memphis, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Memphis. He is a former faculty member in Medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School.Dr. Basu Ray was appointed as an author of the American Heart Association (AHA) Scientific Statement on the role of meditation in cardiovascular risk reduction. He has delivered lectures on yoga at many premier institutes, including Harvard, MIT, Georgia Tech, Cleveland, and the Mayo Clinic. His research interests include use of AI data to predict emotional states like depression that can affect prognosis of cardiovascular disease, role of meditation, stress reduction and biofeedback on the mind-heart axis to prevent and treat cardiovascular pathology initiated in a stressed organism, and the study of Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) morphology to determine the factors that induce thrombus formation in patients with atrial fibrillation. His work has been published in leading journals, such as New England Journal of Medicine and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine.