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This text is designed to provide health care professionals with techniques for helping patients change their unhealthy behaviours and improve their quality of life following a coronary heart disease (CHD) event. Separate chapters focus on specific risk factors including exercise, smoking, diet, stress, and medications. Each of these chapters provide methods for helping patients adopt and maintain lifestyle changes in these areas, including questionnaires and logs. The principal focus of this monograph is on patients with established CHD, but many of the principles can also be applied to patients at high risk for developing cardiovascular disease.

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<br> Two internationally recognized experts in cardiac rehabilitation and behavioral medicine provide substantial reinforcement for the challenge of educating and counseling patients, empowering them with the skills to combat recidivism and improve their cardiovascular health and well-being. These authors have uniquely combined their extensive clinical experience to produce an authoritative yet practical text that will maximize success in caring for patients with cardiovascular disease. This monograph is must reading for all health care professionals involved in contemporary cardiac rehabilitation programs. <br>Barry A. Franklin, PhD<br>Director, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Laboratories, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI Professor of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine <br> Lifestyle Management for Patients With Coronary Heart Disease converts 20 years of research by the Stanford Cardiac Rehabilitation Program into a blueprint for cardiac lifestyle interventions. The only publication of its kind, this monograph presents all the risk assessment tools with guidelines for their use in a single, concise volume. This new addition to the catalog of cardiac treatment literature is a must for the libraries of health care providers, teachers, and researchers. Any health care professional treating cardiac patients will find this monograph an essential item in his or her arsenal of management remedies and techniques. <br>Erika Sivarajan Froelicher, RN, PhD, FAAN<br>Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing, School of Nursing, and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco<br>

Two internationally recognized experts in cardiac rehabilitation and behavioral medicine provide substantial reinforcement for the challenge of educating and counseling patients, empowering them with the skills to combat recidivism and improve their cardiovascular health and well-being. These authors have uniquely combined their extensive clinical experience to produce an authoritative yet practical text that will maximize success in caring for patients with cardiovascular disease. This monograph is must reading for all health care professionals involved in contemporary cardiac rehabilitation programs. Barry A. Franklin, PhD Director, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Exercise Laboratories, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI Professor of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine Lifestyle Management for Patients With Coronary Heart Disease converts 20 years of research by the Stanford Cardiac Rehabilitation Program into a blueprint for cardiac lifestyle interventions. The only publication of its kind, this monograph presents all the risk assessment tools with guidelines for their use in a single, concise volume. This new addition to the catalog of cardiac treatment literature is a must for the libraries of health care providers, teachers, and researchers. Any health care professional treating cardiac patients will find this monograph an essential item in his or her arsenal of management remedies and techniques. Erika Sivarajan Froelicher, RN, PhD, FAAN Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing, School of Nursing, and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

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Nancy Houston Miller is the associate director of the nationally recognized Stanford Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. Having worked in cardiac rehabilitation for more than 20 years, she has a thorough understanding of what it takes to help patients with coronary heart disease change their lifestyles. Her extensive research in cardiovascular risk reduction has involved work on the development of MULTIFIT, the multiple risk factor intervention program described in this monograph. Since 1973 she has worked with patients in the YMCArdiac Therapy Exercise Program, now known as the Cardiac Therapy Foundation of the Mid-Peninsula, in Palo Alto, CA. A member of both the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and the American Heart Association, Houston Miller received fellowship awards from these organizations in 1990 and 1991, respectively. She earned her bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Washington in 1972. Craig Barr Taylor is the codirector of the Stanford Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. A board-certified psychiatrist, he has more than two decades of experience in clinical and research interventions with coronary heart disease patients. He has been a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine since 1991. Taylor was a principal investigator on the MULTIFIT research study, a project funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. He, Houston Miller, and others are responsible for developing the American Heart Association's Active Partnership(TM) Program, which has been used with more than one million patients. A member of the American Association of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and the Society of Behavioral Medicine, Taylor was elected president of the latter organization for the 1995 term. He earned his MD in 1970 from the University of Utah College of Medicine.

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