Meet the editors

Dr. David Gaze is currently a lecturer in Clinical Biochemistry at the University of Westminster. His academic research interests are in the development and clinical utility of cardiac biomarkers for the detection of cardiovascular disease with a special interest in the cardiorenal population. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and 200 abstracts. He has contributed five book chapters to cardiovascular-related text-

books as well as is writing a textbook on cardiac troponin. He is a peer reviewer for 25 medical journals. He is the commissioning editor for review articles for the *Annals of Clinical Biochemistry & Laboratory Medicin*e and is Co-editor-in-chief of Practical Laboratory Medicine.

Aleksandar Kibel is an assistant professor at the Department of Physiology and Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Osijek, as well as an internal medicine specialist and cardiology subspecialist at the Department for Heart and Vascular Diseases, Osijek University Hospital Centre, Croatia. He graduated with a maximum possible grade average from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Osijek, with an MD degree

in 2009, conducting experimental research activities during almost all study years and receiving awards that include the country's top scholarship ("Top Scholarship for Top Students"). Research activities included laboratory practicums and research visits at a number of foreign institutions including the University Clinic Hamburg-Eppendorf (Germany), the Medical College of Wisconsin (USA), Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok (Thailand), etc. He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Department of Physiology and Immunology with a focus on vascular physiology and pathophysiology and teaches at the medical high school, university, and postgraduate doctoral levels. He served as a mentor on several diploma works. Prior work experience also includes work at the Emergency Medicine Department and an internship at the University Hospital Zagreb, as well as volunteer work at the Red Cross. He has published a number of scientific papers and three book chapters and has actively participated in many international scientific conferences, in research projects at the pre-clinical and clinical levels, and in pharmacological clinical trials as a sub-investigator. He is a guest editor of several special issues and an editorial board member of several international scientific journals.

Contents

**Section 1**

of Myocardial Infarction

*by John G. Kingma*

*by Ivana Škrlec*

of Takotsubo Syndrome

*by Ketrell L. McWhorter*

*by Shogade Taiwo and Akpabio Akpabio*

*Andrei Bojan and Manuela Ciocoiu*

**Preface XIII**

Cardiac Risk **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 13**

**Chapter 3 35**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 65**

**Chapter 6 77**

**Chapter 7 101**

Epigenetics of Circadian Rhythm Disruption in Cardiovascular Diseases

Gender Differences in Clinical Outcomes of Patients with Coronary

*by Yaya Guo, YanPing Bai, Yan Gao, Chenxia Wang and Zhilu Wang*

Obesity Acceptance: Body Positivity and Clinical Risk Factors

Genetic Determinant of Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy

*by Jing Zhong, Li-Ping Li, Jian-Feng Zhou and Yong-He Ding*

and Genotype-Targeted Therapeutic Strategy

Correlations between Inflammation and Thrombosis in the Pathogeny

*by Iris Bararu Bojan, Oana-Viola Badulescu, Maria Vladeanu,* 

Acute Myocardial Infarction: Perspectives on Physiopathology

Overview of the Global Prevalence and Diagnostic Criteria

Artery Disease after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

of Myocardial Injury and Protective Interventions
