Book[edited by] Merle Myerson.
Summary: "Dyslipidemia: A Clinical Approach is intended as a low-cost, quick-reference, easy-to-navigate guide for a broad range of healthcare professionals that will provide high-yield decision-making tools to ensure confidence in patient treatment and management of those who are suffering from a lipids disorder or related disease. Content will include detailed drug tables, information on important drug interactions, and also non-statin alternatives for those patients who cannot tolerate statins. In addition, decision-making algorithms and careful patient management plans will be included to ensure quicker and more effective treatment and management of patients"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
1. A historical perspectives on lipids and cardiovascular disease
2. Basic lipid and lipoprotein biochemistry for clinical lipidologists
3. Guidelines and risk scores
4. Lipid measurement
5. Step-by-step diagnosis and management plan
6. Lifestyle modification in the management of dyslipidemia
7. Lipid medications overview: prescription and nonprescription preparations
8. Statins
9. Nonstain medications: omega-3 fatty acids, fibrates, bile acid sequestrants, niacin, and cholesterol absorption inhibitors
10. Hypertriglyceridemia
11. Safety and tolerability of lipid-lowering medications
12. Familial hypercholesterolemia: family disease
13. Complex dyslipidemias
14. Children and adolescents step-by-step evaluation and management plan
15. Lipid management in special populations.