Main description:

An ideal reference for practitioners and health care professionals who care for patients with abnormal lipids, Dyslipidemia: A Clinical Approach provides clinically relevant, user-friendly information on all aspects of this rapidly evolving field. In addition to concise yet in-depth coverage of key topics, chapters include background information, evidence from the literature, and author commentary on conflicting or debated recommendations. Written by respected leaders in cardiology, nutrition, pharmacology, endocrinology and diabetes, pediatrics, nursing, obstetrics and gynecology, and lipidology, this one-stop reference is an excellent resource for helping patients lower the burden of atherosclerotic lipid particles and reduce the risk for cardiovascular disease.

Discusses new drugs, new guidelines, new markers, targets, and goals, and new risk stratification schemes.
Features step-by-step chapters on diagnosis and management, as well as lifestyle modification, lipid medications, familial hypercholesterolemia, management plans for children and adolescents, special populations, and much more.
Uses an easy-to-read outline format and contains key points.
Includes a handy list of acronyms, as well as tables and algorithms that summarize information for quick reference.

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Contents:

Contents
Contributors
Preface
List of Acronyms
1. An Historical Perspective on Lipids and Cardiovascular Disease
Merle Myerson
2. Basic Lipid and Lipoprotein Biochemistry for Clinical Lipidologists
Dan Soffer and Nilay Sutaria
3. Guidelines and Risk Scores
Merle Myerson
4. Lipid Measurement
Merle Myerson
5 . Step-by-Step Diagnosis and Management Plan
Merle Myerson
6. Lifestyle Modification in the Management of Dyslipidemia
Maria Bella and Ryan Turner
7. Lipid Medications Overview: Prescription and Non-Prescription Preparations
Joyce Ross and Ken Kellick
8. Statins
Wayne Warren and Michelle Warren
9. Non-statin Medications: Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Fibrates, Bile Acid Sequestrants, Niacin, and Cholesterol Absorption Inhibitors
Marina Suzuki
10. Hypertriglyceridemia
Kavita Sharma and Ashley Buffomante
11. Safety and Tolerability of Lipid-lowering Medications
Connie Newman and Jonathan Tobert
12. Familial Hypercholesterolemia : Family Disease
Emanuel M. Ebin and Seth Baum
13. Complex Dyslipidemias
Vanessa Hurta and Matthew Weiss
14. Children and Adolescents: Step-by-Step Evaluation and Management Plan
Don Wilson, Catherine McNeal and Piers R. Blackett
15. Lipid Management in Special Populations
a. HIV
Merle Myerson
b. Women, Pregnancy, Menopause
Sara Talken and Robert Wild
c. Chronic Kidney Disease
Aarthi Madhakumar, Madhan Nellaiyappan and Indu Poornima
d. Older Patients
Joyce Ross
Index