Exercise for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Treatment

Part I: Overview.- Chapter 1: Physical inactivity and the economic and health burdens due to cardiovascular disease: exercise as medicine (Mark Hamer).- Part II: Cardiac Exercise Physiology.- Chapter 2: Acute and chronic response to exercise in athletes: the "Supernormal Heart (Antonello D'Andrea).- Chapter 3: The effects of exercise on cardiovascular biomarkers: new insights, recent data, and applications (Lin Che).- Chapter 4: Acute and chronic exercise in animal models (Vu Thi Thu).- Part III: Cardiac Cells Adaptations in Exercise.- Chapter 5 Structural, contractile and electrophysiological adaptations of cardiomyocytes to chronic exercise (Krzesiak A).- Chapter 6: Formation of new cardiomyocytes in exercise (Liang Shen).- Chapter 7: Physical exercise can spur beneficial neoangiogenesis and microvasculature remodeling within the heart - our salvation? (Michal Miko).- Chapter 8 The non-cardiomyocyte cells of heart. their possible roles in exercise-based cardiac regeneration, reparation and remodeling (Ivan Varga).- Part IV: Exercise benefits the Heart: Basic Science Evidence.- Chapter 9: Myocardial infarction and exercise training: evidence from basic science (Ivana Cinthya Moraes-Silva).- Chapter 10: Cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury (Juliana Pereira Borges).- Chapter 11: Experimental evidences supporting the benefits of exercise training in heart failure (Marcelo H. A. Ichige).- Chapter 12: Exercise amaliorates metabolic disturbances and oxidative stress in diabetic cardiomyopathy: possible underlying mechanisms (Ayman M. Mahmoud).- Chapter 13: Cardiac aging - benefits of exercise, Nrf2 activation and antioxidant signaling (Madhusudhanan Narasimhan).- Chapter 14: Cardiac fibrosis:the beneficial effects of exercise in cardiac fibrosis (Jan Kyselovic).- Chapter 15: Physical exercise is a potential "medicine" for atherosclerosis (Jian Yang).- Chapter 16: Experimental evidences supporting training-induced benefits in spontaneously hypertensive rats (GustavoS.

Dr. Junjie Xiao is Principal Investigator and Associate Professor at Regeneration and Ageing Lab in Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.