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Fast Facts: Hyperlipidemia
'Fast Facts: Hyperlipidemia' is a crisp and accurate summary of lipid disorders, with clear language and illustrations. Directed at a broad range of healthcare professionals, from primary care physicians to specialists, this updated sixth edition addresses the importance of considering lipoprotein particles, not just their lipids. The renowned authors, acknowledging the confusion surrounding the place of statins, carefully unpick clinical trial evidence and discuss guideline recommendations. The result is a clear and logical approach to the management of hyperlipidemia. Table of Contents: • Lipids and lipoprotein particles • Epidemiology and pathophysiology • Familial hypercholesterolemia • Polygenic hypercholesterolemia and combined hyperlipidemia • Hypertriglyceridemia • Familial dysbetalipoproteinemia • Dyslipidemia in insulin resistance, the metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus • Secondary hyperlipidemia • Dietary treatment • Drug treatment • When to treat • Biochemical tests
The Year in Dyslipidaemia 2002
Compiled by an internationally respected team of editors, this book reviews the literature published in 2001 in the field of Dyslipidaemia. The work is organized into five sections. Lipid Disorders provides an overview of the huge annual output of published material on familial hypercholesterolaemia, hypertriglyceridaemia and hyperlipidaemia, and other disorders of lipid metabolism. The second section reviews the recently published results of major Lipid-lowering Trials, and assesses the efficacy of the drugs, their cost-effectiveness, and their effect on other risk factors. Section three is dedicated exclusively to Diabetic Dyslipidaemia, and provides a comprehensive summary of the latest r...
The Year in Dyslipidaemia 2004
Exploring the most up to date information in the peer-reviewed literature, The Year in Dyslipidaemia 2004 presents an overview of the latest advancements in this complex field. The editors scan nearly 50 journals, reviews and summarize their most significant papers, and place them in context. This process of distillation provides the reader with an invaluable reference. The book covers the different modifiable risk factors and the increase in propensity for cardiovascular disease caused by type 2 diabetes. Providing a guide to these possibilities, it keeps the specialist or GP up to date with the ever-increasing range of therapeutic and prophylactic options available for the management of lipid disorders.
The Year in Dyslipidaemia 2003
This book provides physicians with up-to-date insight into the latest research into lipid disorders, and the implications of this research for daily clinical practice. Building on the successful first volume in the series, The Year in Dyslipidaemia 2003 now reviews nearly 200 recently published papers from 45 different journals, covering the whole range of lipid disorders, their diagnosis and treatment. The latest clinical trials are reviewed, and new chapters are included on ...Disorders which cause hypolipidaemia... and ...Gender and coronary heart disease.... Specialists and generalists will find this book a useful overview of the latest peer-reviewed literature: truly keeping up to date in one volume, in the interest of more effective strategies for patient care.
Fast Facts
This text provides a crisp and accurate summary of our present knowledge of hyperlipidemia. It reviews recent clinical trials and their findings and appraises current management guidelines with a highly practical focus on determining the best treatment option for each patient. This handbook is perfect for all healthcare professionals looking for an accessible yet authoritative source of information on hyperlipidemia.
Fast Facts: Hyperlipidemia
'Fast Facts: Hyperlipidemia' is a crisp and accurate summary of lipid disorders, with clear language and illustrations. Directed at a broad range of healthcare professionals, from primary care physicians to specialists, this updated sixth edition addresses the importance of considering lipoprotein particles, not just their lipids. The renowned authors, acknowledging the confusion surrounding the place of statins, carefully unpick clinical trial evidence and discuss guideline recommendations. The result is a clear and logical approach to the management of hyperlipidemia. Table of Contents: • Lipids and lipoprotein particles • Epidemiology and pathophysiology • Familial hypercholesterolemia • Polygenic hypercholesterolemia and combined hyperlipidemia • Hypertriglyceridemia • Familial dysbetalipoproteinemia • Dyslipidemia in insulin resistance, the metabolic syndrome and diabetes mellitus • Secondary hyperlipidemia • Dietary treatment • Drug treatment • When to treat • Biochemical tests
Hunter's Diseases of Occupations
Winner of the 2011 BMA book awards: medicine categoryIn the five decades since its first publication, Hunter's Diseases of Occupations has remained the pre-eminent text on diseases caused by work, universally recognized as the most authoritative source of information in the field. It is an important guide for doctors in all disciplines who may
Paraoxonase (PON1) in Health and Disease
The paraoxonase or PON family of genes resides on human chromosome 7q2t-22 in the order PONt, PON3 and PON2. PONt was one of the early genes identified as an environmentally relevant gene, in that it is important in determining an individual's sensitivity or resistance to exposure from specific organophosphorus (OP) insecticides. Paraoxonase (PONt) is an A esterase (i. e. , not inhibited by OP compounds) initially identified for its ability to catalytically hydrolyze paraoxon, the toxic metabolite (oxon form) of the insecticide parathion. Evidence accumulated in the past several years has established that this enzyme, which is present at variable levels in liver and serum of different indivi...
