Table of Contents

1: Professor Guy De Backer: Epidemiology of cardiovascular disease: the scale of the problem 2: Joanna Gouni-Berthold and Wilhelm Krone: Lipids, lipoproteins and atherogenesis 3: Catherine McGorrian, Tora Leong, Ralph D'Agostino, Marie-Therese Coney and Ian M. Graham: Risk estimation systems in clinical use: SCORE, HeartScore, Framingham, PROCAM, ASSIGN and QRISK 4: Anton F. H. Stalenhoef: Primary dyslipidaemias 5: Rafael Carmena and Jose T Real: Secondary dyslipidemias 6: Jonathan Morrell and Jacqueline Morrell: Diet and lifestyle 7: D. John Betteridge: Pharmacological therapy: Statins 8: D. John Betteridge: Pharmacological therapy: Non-Statin Drugs 9: Anthony S. Wierzbicki: Combination therapy for the management of hyperlipidaemia 10: D. John Betteridge: Recent lipid-lowering trials in perspective: Implications for therapy 11: Manish Kalla and Julian Halcox: Vascular imaging 12: John Reckless: Common problems in lipid management

About the Author

John Betteridge is Professor of of Endrocrinology and Metabolism at University College, London UK.