Nutritional and Metabolic Bases of Cardiovascular Disease

Extraordinary advances in the understanding of the relationships between nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular disease have prompted a systematic reappraisal of recent knowledge in the field. Focusing on knowledge from the last two to three years, this timely volume examines and updates the role of obesity, hyperlipidemia diabetes, hypertension, thrombosis, and ageing in atherogenesis. It describes in detail the scientific and clinical evidence of the etiopathogenesis of ischemic heart disease as well as of peripheral and cerebrovascular disease.

Mario Mancini, MD, Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University Medical School, Naples, Italy Jos M. Ordovas, PhD, Senior Scientist and Director, Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA HNRCA at Tufts University, Boston, MA, USA Gabriele Riccardi, MD, Professor of Endocrine and Metabolic Disease, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University Medical School, Naples, Italy Paolo Rubba, MD, Professor of Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University Medical School, Naples, Italy Pasquale Strazzullo, MD, Professor of Medicine, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Federico II University Medical School, Naples, Italy