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Cardiovascular Disease
Diet, Nutrition Emerging Risk Factors
by Sara Stanner
Cardiovascular Disease comprises the comprehensive and authoritative independent report of the British Nutrition Foundation Task Force on the link between emerging aspects of diet and cardiovascular disease, a major cause of early death and disability.
Features:
- core information for health professionals as well as those involved in food formulation in the food industry
- a dedication question and answer chapter
- important conclusions and recommendations
Contents
- The Aetiology and Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease
- Definitions
- Pathogenesis
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Disease
- Risk Factors for Cardiovasuclar Disease
- Role of Diet
- and more!
- Metabolic Syndrome: Insulin Resistance, Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Physical Activity and Genetic Factors
- Aim of this Chapter
- Overlap of Insulin Resistance, Obesity and Physical Inactivity
- Insulin Resistance
- Obesity
- Diabetes Mellitus
- and more!
- Lipid-Related Factors
- Atherogenic lipoproteins
- Postprandial Lipaemia-Atherogenic Iipoprotein Phenotype
- Remnant-like Particles
- Small, Dense Low-Density Lipoprotein
- High-Density Lipoprotein Subfractions
- and more!
- Endothelial Dysfunction
- Introduction
- Estimates of Endothelial Dysfunction
- Aetiology of Endothelial Damage: Association with Classical and Novel Risk Factors
- Endothelial Dysfunction as an Integrated Pathway for Coronary Heart Disease Risk
- Endothelial Function Measures as independent Predictors of CHD
- and more!
- Oxidative Stress
- Introduction
- The Normal Role of LDL
- Free Radicals
- Molecular Targets for Oxidation
- Reactive Nitrogen Species
- and more!
- The Haemostatic System: Congulation, Platelets and Fibrinolysis
- The Haemostatic System
- The Fibrinolytic System
- The Concept of Hypercoagulability
- Established Haemostatic Risk Factors for Vascular Disease
- Platelet Function Tests
- and more!
- Inflammation-Related Factors
- Introduction
- The Immune System
- Inflammation and Atherosclerosis
- Risk Factors
- Are the Inflammatory Risk Factors Equivalent?
- and more!
- Homocysteine
- Introduction
- Biochemistry
- Laboratory Measurement of Homocysteine
- Evidence Relating Homocysteine with Risk of Cadiovascular Disease
- Pathophysiology of Vascular Disease
- and more!
- Adipose Tissue-Derived Factors
- Introduction
- Leptin
- Acylation Stimulating Protein
- Adiponectin
- Adipose Tissue-Derived Cytokines
- and more!
- Fetal and Maternal Nutrition
- Low Birthweight and Adult Cardiovascular Disease
- Size at Birth and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
- Post-Natal Growth and Adult Obesity
- Variation with Sex
- Variation with Ethnicity
- and more!
...and Chapters 11-16
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Cardiovascular Disease
Diet, Nutrition and Emerging Risk Factors
by Sara Stanner
2005 • 380 pages • $103.95 + shipping
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