Metabolic Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
Published on 29. August 2010
264 pages
978-1-4443-2479-2 (ISBN)
Description
The relationship of metabolic diseases to cardiovascular disease(CVD) is reaching epidemic proportions. This relates mostly to theincreasing prevalence of obesity, the metabolic syndrome and type 2diabetes.
This book outlines and addresses the metabolic factors andrelated diseases that contribute to CVD, including briefintroductions to metabolic pathways including lipid and lipoproteinmetabolism, macronutrient fuel partitioning, insulin action andbody weight regulation. Mechanisms that relate to becoming obese,maintenance of the obese state, the dyslipidemias, and glucoseintolerance/diabetes are also addressed, and the importance ofinterventions that reduce metabolic risk factors and CVD arecovered.
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"This book gives a clear overview of metabolic risk factorsassociated with cardiovascular risk, along with risk reductionstrategies." (Doody's, 14 October 2011)More details
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Robert H. Eckel
Metabolic Risk for Cardiovascular Disease
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11/2010
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Robert H. Eckel, M.D. received both his Bachelor of Sciencesin Bacteriology and Medical Doctorate from the University ofCincinnati. He did his Housestaff training in Internal Medicine atthe University of Wisconsin Hospitals and from there traveled toSeattle for a senior fellowship in Endocrinology and Metabolism.Dr. Eckel was then appointed as Assistant Professor of Medicine atthe University of Colorado School of Medicine where he is nowProfessor of Medicine and holds the Charles A. Boettcher EndowedChair in Atherosclerosis. In addition, Dr. Eckel holds a jointappointment in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics andadjunct appointments in the School of Pharmacy, the Department ofIntegrative Physiology at the University of Colorado at Boulder,and in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition atColorado State University. Dr. Eckel currently directs the campuswide Program in Preventive Cardiology at the University of Coloradoat Denver and Health Sciences Center.
Shortly after his arrival in Denver, Dr. Eckel was appointedAssociate Program Director of the Adult General Clinical ResearchCenter (GCRC) at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center(UCHSC). In 1993 he assumed the role of Program Director, aposition he continues to hold. Dr. Eckel's translationalresearch in lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, insulin action,energy balance and body weight regulation has led to a number ofawards, and his presidency of the Western Society for ClinicalInvestigation, the North American Association for the Study ofObesity, the Association for Patient Oriented Research, and theAmerican Heart Association.
Content
Contributors.
Foreword.
1 Insulin action and beta-cell function: role in metabolicregulation (Kristina M. Utzschneider and Steven E.Kahn).
2 Lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, and risk for cardiovasculardisease (Frank M. Sacks).
3 Tobacco and risk for cardiovascular disease (C. Barr Taylorand Mickey Trockel).
4 Nutrition and risk for cardiovascular disease (Alice H.Lichtenstein).
5 Physical activity and cardiovascular health (William E.Kraus and William L. Haskell).
6 The obesity epidemic and cardiovascular risk (PaulPoirier).
7 Insulin resistance, the metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascularrisk (Stanley S. Wang and Sidney C. Smith, Jr).
8 Diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular risk (Peter W. F.Wilson).
9 Lipid management and cardiovascular risk reduction (AntonioM. Gotto, Jr. and John A. Farmer).
10 Obesity management and cardiovascular risk reduction(George A. Bray).
11 Diabetes management and cardiovascular risk reduction (JayS. Skyler).
12 A healthy lifestyle and cardiovascular risk reduction(Arne V. Astrup).
Index.
Author Disclosure Table.
