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