Preventive Cardiology™ This journal was launched in response to the exponential growth of knowledge in the prevention of cardiovascular disease. Advances at both the basic and clinical levels have been extensive and continue to evolve rapidly. Preventive Cardiology provides a unique forum for the research of investigators and clinicians covering the many diverse but related disciplines that contribute to the prevention of heart and vascular disease.
EDITOR IN CHIEF Ezra A. Amsterdam, MD
Biography
Official Journal of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology
EDITORIAL BOARD
ASSOCIATE EDITORS Barry A. Franklin, PhD Dianne A. Hyson, PhD, MS, RD C. Tissa Kappagoda, MBBS, PhD William R. Lewis, MD Philip R. Liebson, MD Wendy Mueller-Cunningham, PhD, RD Saul Schaefer, MD
SENIOR EDITORS Wilbert S. Aronow, MD C. Noel Bairey-Merz, MD Roger S. Blumenthal, MD Melvin D. Cheitlin, MD Lori Mosca, MD, MPH, PhD Carl J. Pepine, MD Richard A. Stein, MD Nathan D. Wong, PhD, MPH
EDITORIAL BOARD Diane M. Becker, ScD, MPH Gerald Berenson, MD William E. Boden, MD Jeffrey Borer, MD B. Greg Brown, MD, PhD Edward Callahan, PhD Peter Cohn, MD William E. Connor, MD, PhD Neil L. Coplan, MD Michael H. Criqui, MD, MPH John R. Crouse III, MD Prakash C. Deedwania, MD Uri Elkayam, MD Steven B. Feinstein, MD Jerome L. Fleg, MD Gerald F. Fletcher, MD JoAnne M. Foody, MD James S. Forrester, MD Victor F. Froelicher, MD Erika S. Froelicher, RN, PhD
Edward D. Frohlich, MD Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD J. Michael Gaziano, MD Thomas D. Giles, MD Ralph Green, MD Gabriel Gregoratos, MD William L. Haskell, PhD Bodh I. Jugdutt, MD William B. Kannel, MD, MPH Norman M. Kaplan, MD Ronald M. Krauss, MD Lewis H. Kuller, MD, DrPH John C. LaRosa, MD Marian C. Limacher, MD Barry M. Massie, MD Michael Miller, MD Marvin Moser, MD Albert Oberman, MD Ira Ockene, MD Richard C. Pasternak, MD Thomas A. Pearson, MD, PhD Anne L. Peters Harmel, MD Bertram Pitt, MD Paul M. Ridker, MD, MPH William Clifford Roberts, MD John Rutledge, MD Douglas D. Schocken, MD Prediman K. Shah, MD David Siegel, MD Marc A. Silver, MD Sidney C. Smith Jr, MD Uma N. Srivatsa, MD Jeremiah Stamler, MD James H. Stein, MD Neil J. Stone, MD H. Robert Superko, MD Paul D. Thompson, MD Piero Verro, MD, MS Nanette K. Wenger, MD Christine L. Williams MD, MPH