This book is the first authoritative and comprehensive volume presenting basic, translational and clinical research demonstrating the importance of primordial, primary and secondary prevention starting in childhood for the reduction of adult cardiovascular diseases. Chapters will various childhood cardiovascular risk factors that predict adult cardiovascular and other health conditions. The book will also cover lessons learned from longitudinal cardiovascular cohorts such as the Bogalusa Heart Study, the Young Finns Study, and the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. In addition, the book covers adolescent cohorts from low and middle-income countries. 

Primordial Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease will serve as the premier textbook for preventive cardiology across the lifespan and will serve as a valuable resource for physicians, residents, fellows and medical students in cardiology, primary care, and health promotion and disease prevention.

Elaine M Urbina, MD, MS, is the Professor Emeritus of Preventive Cardiology at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. Her clinical activities and industry sponsored grants focused on prevention (obesity, hypertension and dyslipidemias). Her research grants concentrated on new non-invasive methods of assessing atherosclerotic CV target organ damage in youth related to CV risk factors especially those that cluster with obesity. She has over 30 years of experience in non-invasive imaging of CV structure and function in large epidemiologic studies such as the Bogalusa Heart Study. She was the PI of a National Institutes of Health grant (NHLBI R01) following the cardiac and vascular effects of obesity and type 2 diabetes on adolescents and an American Heart Association grant evaluating the CV effects of hypertension in adolescents.  She is a member of the International Childhood CV Cohorts Consortium that will be following Bogalusa, Muscatine, Young Finns and other cohorts that collected CV risk factor data in children starting over 40 years ago with the participants now entering middle age.