| Description |
xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Fundamental and clinical cardiology ; 24 |
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Fundamental and clinical cardiology ; v. 24
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| Contents |
1. The High-Risk Strategy for Adults / Alan Chait -- 2. Cholesterol Lowering and Total Mortality / David J. Gordon -- 3. Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease / Jacques E. Rossouw -- 4. Evolution of the Atherosclerotic Plaque / Antonio Fernandez-Ortiz and Valentin Fuster -- 5. Dyslipoproteinemia in Older People / Walter H. Ettinger, Jr. and William R. Hazzard -- 6. Cholesterol Lowering in Women / John C. LaRosa -- 7. An Approach to Cholesterol Levels in Children and Adolescents / Ronald M. Lauer -- 8. Population Strategy / Thomas A. Pearson -- 9. The Community Approach / Russell V. Luepker -- 10. The Cholesterol-Lowering Diet / Margo A. Denke and Scott M. Grundy -- 11. Implementing Dietary Change / Penny M. Kris-Etherton, Sharon L. Peterson, Madeleine Sigman-Grant, Lori Beth Dixon, Suzanne M. Jaax and Lynne W. Scott -- 12. Drug Therapy / Henry N. Ginsberg |
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13. Measuring Cholesterol and Other Lipids and Lipoproteins in Cardiovascular Risk Assessment / G. Russell Warnick -- 14. The Cost-Effectiveness of Programs to Lower Serum Cholesterol / David J. Cohen, Lee Goldman and Milton C. Weinstein -- 15. Emerging Opportunities for Atherosclerosis Prevention: Beyond Cholesterol-Lowering Therapy / Daniel Steinberg and Joseph L. Witztum -- 16. The Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study (4S): Editor's Summary / Basil M. Rifkind |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Hypercholesteremia -- Prevention.
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Hypercholesteremia -- Treatment.
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Coronary Disease -- prevention & control.
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Hypercholesterolemia -- complications.
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Hypercholoesterolemia -- therapy
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Risk Factors.
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| Author |
Rifkind, Basil M.
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| LC no. |
94045081 |
| ISBN |
0824794125 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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