Comprehensive lipid testing and management [Paperback]

Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries. Measurement of blood of lipids and lipoproteins has become one of the most frequently performed assays in clinical chemistry laboratories, reflecting their role in the aetiology of cardiovascular disease.
Pocket Reference to Comprehensive Lipid Testing and Management provides an overview of the purpose of lipid testing, diagnosis and lipid profiles as well as the goals of treatment and pharmacological management of lipid levels.
The book is divided into two parts, one covering lipid testing and one covering lipid management in the prevention of cardiovascular disease.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.Professor Lars A Carlson is currently Emeritus Research Professor at the Karolinska Institutet and Director of the Lipid and Hypertension Clinic at Sophiahemmet, Stockholm, Sweden. He qualified in medicine at the Karolinska Institutet, and later obtained his PhD there. His clinical training was undertaken at the Department of Internal Medicine, Karolinska Hospital. He became the first Swedish Professor of Geriatric Medicine in Uppsala and created the Department of Geriatric Medicine at Uppsala University. This was followed by positions at the Karolinska Institutet as Professor of Internal Medicine and at the Department of Internal Medicine, Karolinska Hospital as a Consultant Pl1