The Impact of Nutrition and Statins on Cardiovascular Diseases

Features:

Includes a bioscience approach that focuses on inflammation and revisits the lipid hypothesis

Presents the view that nutritional interventions have considerable value, not only for reducing cardiovascular risk for CVDs patients, but also acting as the best precaution for otherwise healthy people

Advocates that nutritional habits that are formed at a young age are the best way to tackle the global epidemic that is CVDs

Table Of Contents:

1. The Origin of Chronic Diseases with Respect to Cardiovascular Disease
Ronan Lordan, Alexandros Tsoupras, and Ioannis Zabetakis
2. Inflammation
Ronan Lordan, Alexandros Tsoupras, and Ioannis Zabetakis
3. Inflammation and Cardiovascular Diseases
Alexandros Tsoupras, Ronan Lordan, and Ioannis Zabetakis
4. The Lipid Hypothesis and The Seven Countries Study
Ronan Lordan, Alexandros Tsoupras, and Ioannis Zabetakis
5. The Role of Cholesterol in Atherosclerosis, CVD, and Dietary Patterns
Alexandros Tsoupras, Ronan Lordan, and Ioannis Zabetakis
6. Statins: Rationale, Mode of Action, and Side-effects
Sherif Sultan, Ashwini D’Souza, Ioannis Zabetakis, Ronan Lordan, Alexandros Tsoupras, Edel P Kavanagh, and Niamh Hynes
7. Cardiovascular Risk: Assumptions, Limitations, and Research
Alexandros Tsoupras, Ronan Lordan, and Ioannis Zabetakis
8. Diet and Cardiovascular Disease: The Mediterranean Diet
Audrey Tierney, Ronan Lordan, Alexandros Tsoupas, and Ioannis Zabetakis
9. Nutrition Versus Statins in Primary Prevention: Where do we Stand Now?
Ioannis Zabetakis, Ronan Lordan, and Alexandros Tsoupras