Practical lipid management
Subtitle: concepts and controversies
By: Peter P. Toth, Kevin C. Maki.
Contributors: Maki, Kevin C.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, UK; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780470056905
Subjects: Hyperlipidemia -- Treatment; Coronary heart disease -- Prevention; Dyslipidemias -- therapy; Cardiovascular Diseases -- prevention & control
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Epidemiology of lipids, lipid management, and risk for coronary heart disease : an overview; title: Vascular biology and atherogenesis; title: Detection, evaluation, and treatment goals for lipid disorders in adults; title: Therapeutic lifestyle changes in the management of lipid disorders and the metabolic syndrome; title: Management of elevated low density lipoprotein cholesterol; title: Management of elevated triglycerides and non-high density lipoprotein cholesterol; title: Management of depressed high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; title: Lipid management in population subsets : women, the elderly, ethnic minorities, children, and adolescents; title: Emerging risk factors and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease; title: A primer on clinical trials and critical review of clinical trial reports for the clinician; title: Case studies.