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Fast Facts: Hyperlipidemia
Date Added: 27/02/2012
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Description
Aimed at a broad range of health care professionals, this 146-page eBook aims to 'present a crisp and accurate summary of the hyperlipidemia field'. The first section of the eBook presents clinical and scientific information - about topics such as polygenic hypercholesterolemia - whilst the subsequent section advises practical solutions (e.g. when to treat, different types of treatments, etc). It is formatted in an easy-to-read manner; ensuring the reader can efficiently and effectively access and consume the content.
Topics:
- Lipids and lipoproteins - structure and physiology
- Epidemiology and pathophysiology
- Familial (monogenic) 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
'Vascular disease is not beaten, but it is retreating, and it is therefore critical that we apply as rapidly as possible the major clinical and scientific advances that have occurred... That is why we have tried to provide a text that interprets clinical trial evidence in the context of pathogenisis and gives practical solutions to routine problems encountered in the clinical management of hyperlipidemia.'
Author
Allan Sniderman - Edwards Professor of Cardiology and Professor of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Paul Durrington - Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Group, School of Clinical and Laboratory Science, University of Manchester, UK
