Clinical Handbook of Coronary Artery Disease is a monograph published under the aegis of the South Asian Society on Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis, the fourth in the society's series on coronary artery disease, bringing evidence-based reviews from leading national and international experts into a single reference.
Coverage runs across the whole territory of the disease: diabetes and CAD, CAD in women, modifiable risk factors and cardiovascular risk stratification in South Asians, body composition, obesity, hypertension and the kidneys, bioactive lipids, dietary fats, dyslipidemia management in Indians, microvascular dysfunction, and the diabetic complications of retinopathy and neuropathy.
Interventional and surgical chapters address recent advances in interventional cardiology, surgical coronary revascularization, circulatory assist devices and mechanical circulatory support for advanced heart failure, alongside newer antiplatelet therapies, modern imaging, carotid plaque burden measurement by ultrasound, cardiac rehabilitation, and predictive and preventive strategies including the North Karelia project and a chapter on sustainable population-level control of cardiovascular disease.
- Risk is treated as South Asian risk specifically — separate chapters on modifiable risk factors, risk stratification and body composition in South Asians compared with other ethnic groups.
- The book addresses the gap between Indian practice and Western literature and its implementation, rather than assuming one transfers to the other.
- Metabolic and renal contributors to coronary risk are given their own chapters — epidemiology of diabetes in India, diabetes in low and middle-income countries, cardiorenal biomarkers, hypertension and the kidneys — so comorbidity is handled rather than assumed away.
- Graphics, flowcharts, tables and figures carry the data throughout, and each chapter closes on its own reference list for following the evidence further.
- Contributions come from Indian centres and from Minnesota, San Francisco, Wisconsin, Ochsner and Ontario, so recommendations sit against international as well as Indian practice.
Key Features:
- 37 chapters plus an introduction and a revised Afterword covering 1990–2025.
- The fourth monograph in the SASAT coronary artery disease series, following the 2001 and 2005 volumes.
- Dedicated chapters on pediatric cardiology in India, the North Karelia project, and chronobiology and obesity.
- Forward-looking chapters on gene therapy applications for obesity, D-ribose in ischemic cardiovascular disease, and In-Cardiome as an integrated knowledge base.
- Contributions from leading national and international experts across cardiology, diabetology, nephrology, nutrition and biomedical research.
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