Lipids and Vascular Disease：Current Issues

Providing a selective survey of issues rather than comprehensive coverage, researchers from around the world consider several aspects of the relationship between lipids and heart disease. Among their topics are postprandial lipaemia, the genetic determinants of lipid and lipoprotein concentrations, familial hypercholesterolemia, elevated plasma homocysteine as a possible modifiable risk factor, potential new therapies for chronic infection and coronary heart disease, implications of high lipid levels in the hypertensive patient, lipids in heart transplant patients, evidence from observational studies and randomized trials on lowering cardiovascular risk by reducing cholesterol, lipid risk factors for women and coronary heart disease, an update on the statins, and new guidelines for preventing coronary heart disease. The anthology of 18 studies comprises a continuation of Betteridge's (endocrinology and metabolism, U. College London) Lipids: Current Perspectives . Distributed in the US by Blackwell Science. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

[BSc MB BS PhD MD FRCP] - Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism in the Division of Medicine, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK