Biochemistry - Lipids, Physiology, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Pathology, Health Policy, Pharmacology, Cardiology, Pathophysiology, Vascular Medicine
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Provides the rational and scientific basis for discussion and evaluation of the lipid hypothesis, the dominant but still contended theory of the etiology of atherosclerosis. The volume is divided into seven chapters: the genesis of the lipid hypothesis and terminology; the pathology of atherosclerosis and experimental atherosclerosis; basic scientific precepts in the epidemiology of coronary heart disease and atherosclerosis; diagnostic error and the validity of vital statistics; lipids and cholesterol in the lipid hypothesis; risk factors, prediction, clinical trials and regression of atherosclerosis; and epidemiology, atherogenesis and the future. From the verso of the title page: submitted June 1993--published August 1993. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
January 1, 1993
Publisher
Landes Bioscience
Pages
196
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781879702790