Cholesterol and Beyond The Research on Diet and Coronary Heart Disease 1900-2000 /
Only once in a great while does a book come along that really does the job in addressing a major medical issue. When this happens, all can be joyful& Readers will find ALL their favorite dietary puzzlements dealt with& With consummate scholarship, clarity and brevity, Truswell sifts out the...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
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2010.
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| Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8875-8 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Chapters
- 1. Emergence of coronary heart disease as a diagnosis
- 2. Experimental pathology in St Petersburg
- 3. Is plasma cholesterol raised with human atherosclerosis?
- 4. Diet can have worthwhile effects on human plasma cholesterol
- 5. A new type of observational epidemiology
- 6. Serum triglycerides, ? another risk factor
- 7. Fredricksons classification of the hyperlipoproteinemias
- 8. The Seven Countries Study (7CS)
- 9. Sucrose an alternative dietary hypothesis
- 10. HDL-cholesterol is protective
- 11. Critics and sceptics
- 12. Thrombosis on and in atheroma
- 13. Dietary cholesterol may affect plasma cholesterol
- 14. First Controlled trials
- 15. Dietary fibre
- 16. Obesity
- 17. Thrombosis treated early
- 18. Fish oil
- 19. Alcohol
- 20. Coffee
- 21. Trans fatty acids
- 22. Antioxidants
- 23. More controlled dietary trials
- 24. Trials of better drugs
- 25. Linoleic acid is protective
- 26. Plant sterols fade and return
- 27. Soy proteins versus casein
- 28. High homocysteine associated with cardiovascular diseases
- 29 And salt should be included
- 30. How it adds up
- 31. The Big Picture
- 32. End notes
- References
- Index.