Comprehensive Lipid Testing and Management

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Content Level » Professional/practitioner
Keywords » Cholestrol - Coronary heart disease - Diabetes - Lipids - Statins
Related subjects » Cardiology & Angiology

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Part one Lipid testing.
• 1 Atherosclerosis and clinical atherosclerosis.
• 2 From cholesterol to lipoproteins and apolipoproteins.
• 3 Lipid testing.
• 4 Lipid profiles.
• 5 Lipid testing and prediction of coronary heart disease.
• 6 Lipid risk factors in prediction of coronary heart disease – is any one factor best.
• Part two Lipid management.
• 7 Goals of lipid management.
• 8 Cholesterol lowering and prevention of CHD.
• 9 Cholesterol goals in current guidelines.
• 10 Lipid management in clinical practice.
• 11 Drugs for lipid management.
• 12 Diabetic dyslipidaemia.
• 13 LDL apheresis.
• 14 Lipid modifying agents under development.