Cardiovascular Endocrinology and Metabolism: Theory and Practice of Cardiometabolic Medicine

Features:

• Discusses the intersection between metabolic disorders and cardiovascular diseases
• Provides a comprehensive understanding of the relevant pathophysiology of diseases as a basis for the evidence-based management of cardiometabolic disorders
• Offers a comprehensive reference, ranging from basic science and pathophysiology to clinical diagnostics and management

Table Of Contents:

Part 1. Basic science and pathophysiology
1. Obesity and insulin resistance
2. Diabetes and macrovascular disease: epidemiology and cardiovascular risk assessment
3. Hypertension
4. Lipid metabolism: role in atherogenesis
5. Renal disease and cardiorenal interactions
6. NAFLD/NASH and cardiovascular risk
7. Heart failure
8. Prothrombosis: association with cardiometabolic disease
9. Inflammation, metabolism and cardiovascular disease
10. Classic endocrine disorders: association with vascular disease

Part 2. Clinical evaluation, lifestyle measures and therapeutic options
11. Non-pharmacological strategies in the prevention and management of cardiometabolic disease
12. Obesity: pharmacological approaches to prevention and management
13. Diabetes: evolution of multifactorial vascular risk reduction
14. Diabetes CVOTS: design, interpretation and future directions
15. Novel glucose-lowering drugs: a new era of cardioprotection and renoprotection
16: Hypertension: pharmacological and surgical management
17. PCSK-9 inhibitors and other novel lipid-modifying drugs
18. Recent therapeutic developments in heart failure
19. Antiplatelet agents
20. Progress in anticoagulant therapy
21. Invasive treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: today and tomorrow
22. Cardiometabolic medicine in practice: role of cardiologists vs endocrinologists and the need for a new clinical specialty