**Meet the editor**

Following undergraduate and postgraduate study in the North of England and London respectively, David Gaze works as a Research Biochemist in the department of Chemical Pathology, Clinical Blood Sciences at St George's Hospital and Medical School, London. His area of research interest is the development and clinical utility of cardiovascular biomarkers for assessment

of patients with cardiovascular disease and cardiorenal disease. He has authored and co authored over 130 peer reviewed original papers, editorials and reviews, 150 conference proceedings. In addition, he has authored a number of book chapters, edited works on cardiovascular disease and written a textbook on cardiac troponin. He has delivered national and international presentations on cardiac biomarkers. He received two NACB distinguished abstracts awards (2006/2008) and a diploma for oral presentation from the 17th IFCC–FESCC European Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine. He is a member of the American Association of Clinical Biochemistry; Member of the Association for Biochemistry; Associate member of the Royal Institute; Member of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences; Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the Pathological Society of Great Britain.

Contents

**Preface VII**

David C. Gaze

**A Review 15**

**Diabetes Mellitus 41**

S.A. Sekerko and I.A. Petrushin

Chapter 4 **Sex Differences in Sudden Cardiac Death 61**

Ramos

Ashton

Fang

**United States 77**

David C. Gaze

Chapter 6 **Biomarkers of Cardiac Ischemia 91**

Magda H M Youssef

Chapter 1 **Introduction to Ischemic Heart Disease 1**

Chapter 2 **Myocardial Ischemia in Congenital Heart Disease:**

Chapter 3 **Significance of Arterial Endothelial Dysfunction and**

Fabio Carmona, Karina M. Mata, Marcela S. Oliveira and Simone G.

**Possibilities of Its Correction in Silent Myocardial Ischemia and**

I.P. Tatarchenko, N.V. Pozdnyakova, O.I. Morozova, A.G. Mordovina,

**Myocardial Infarction Among Patients Aged 18-64 Years in the**

Guijing Wang, Zefeng Zhang, Carma Ayala, Diane Dunet and Jing

Anastasia Susie Mihailidou, Rebecca Ritchie and Anthony W.

Chapter 5 **Costs of Hospitalizations with a Primary Diagnosis of Acute**

Chapter 7 **Is Hyperuricemia a Risk Factor to Cardiovascular Disease? 123**
