Lipid Management From Basics to Clinic /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Yassine, Hussein (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Endocrinology.; Pediatrics.; Medicine & Public Health.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

This timely, concise title provides an important update on clinical lipid management. Using information from recent clinical trials and in special populations, the book begins by offering an easy-to-read overview of LDL, HDL, and triglyceride metabolism and the genetics of lipid disorders. The link...

Table of Contents:

• Basics of Lipoprotein Metabolism
• Genetics of Lipid Disorders
• Lipid and Inflammation in Atherosclerosis
• Dyslipidemia: Relationship to Insulin Resistance, Fatty Liver, and Sub-clinical atherosclerosis
• Is low HDL cholesterol a marker of a mediator of cardiovascular disease?
• Approach to the patient with lipid disorders
• The Effects of Diet in Hyperlipidemia
• Statins
• Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD): The Lipid Disease of the Liver and the Effect of Statins
• Statins in Heart Failure
• Statins in Chronic Kidney Disease
• Non-statin therapies
• LDL Apheresis
• Dyslipidemia in HIV
• New and Emerging Lipid Therapies.