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9780071444811

Harvard Medical School Guide to Lowering Your Cholesterol

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    9780071444811

  • ISBN10:

    0071444815

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-03-03
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Summary

Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA. Consumer health text provides a guide to managing cholesterol levels and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Discusses good vs. bad cholesterol, cholesterol management through diet and exercise, how cholesterol levels impact overall health, and cholesterol-lowering drugs. Softcover.

Author Biography

Mason W. Freeman, M.D., is an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the chief of the prestigious Lipid Metabolism Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital. Christine Junge is a writer who specializes in medical topics.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xv
CHAPTER 1 Understanding Cholesterol: The Good, the Bad, and the Necessary 1(12)
What Is Cholesterol?
2(1)
A Lipoprotein by Any Other Name
2(2)
You Mean My Body Makes Cholesterol?
4(5)
The Other Source: Diet
9(3)
Why You Need to Know
12(1)
CHAPTER 2 Heart Disease Primer 13(14)
What Is Heart Disease?
13(4)
How Heart Disease Happens
17(4)
What a Heart Attack Feels Like
21(2)
What to Do if You're Having a Heart Attack
23(2)
A Heart Attack Plan
25(2)
CHAPTER 3 If You Know You Have Heart Disease 27(18)
Medications
28(6)
Procedures to Open Blocked Arteries
34(8)
Alternative Remedies
42(2)
Choose the Treatment That's Right for You
44(1)
CHAPTER 4 Risk Factors for Heart Disease 45(38)
Unavoidable Risk Factors
45(5)
Avoidable Risk Factors
50(16)
Emerging Risk Factors
66(13)
How Heavily Should You Weigh Any Risk Factor?
79(4)
CHAPTER 5 When You Visit Your Doctor 83(26)
Inaccuracies in the Tests
85(5)
When to Treat Cholesterol
90(16)
Step 1: Considering Your Cholesterol Levels
92(3)
Step 2: Determining if You Have Heart Disease or Diabetes
95(1)
Step 3: Measuring Your Risk Factors
96(1)
Step 4: Calculating Your Heart Attack Risk
96(1)
Step 5: Finding Your Treatment Category
97(5)
Step 6: Determining Your Treatment
102(4)
Personalizing the NCEP Guidelines
106(3)
CHAPTER 6 A Diet to Lower Your Cholesterol 109(20)
Benefits of Adopting a Heart-Healthy Lifestyle
109(1)
Your Cholesterol-Lowering Diet
110(16)
What About Dietary Cholesterol?
126(1)
Finding the Diet That's Right for You
127(2)
CHAPTER 7 An Exercise Program to Lower Your Cholesterol 129(16)
The Benefits and Risks of Exercise
129(2)
A Program to Get You Started
131(7)
How Much Should You Exercise?
138(1)
Fitting Exercise into Your Life
138(2)
Designing the Right Program
140(1)
Sticking with Exercise
141(4)
CHAPTER 8 Drug Treatment 145(30)
Reductase Inhibitors (Statins)
146(18)
Other Drugs
164(7)
How to Save Money on Drugs
171(4)
CHAPTER 9 Treating Other Lipid Problems 175(12)
Elevated Triglycerides
175(4)
A Problem in Two Parts: High LDL and High Triglycerides
179(5)
Low HDL
184(3)
CHAPTER 10 Special Considerations for Seniors, Children, and People with Heart Disease or Diabetes 187(10)
If You're a Senior
187(4)
If Your Child Has High Cholesterol
191(2)
If You Have Heart Disease
193(1)
If You Have Diabetes
194(3)
CHAPTER 11 On the Horizon 197(12)
Increasing HDL Levels
197(2)
High-Tech Scans
199(4)
Over-the-Counter Statins
203(2)
Genetics, Lipids, and Heart Disease
205(2)
Progress Takes Time
207(2)
CHAPTER 12 Alternative and Complementary Approaches to Lowering Cholesterol 209(14)
Coenzyme Q10
212(1)
Plant Sterols and Stanols
213(3)
Policosanol Alcohol
216(1)
Soy
217(1)
Red Yeast Rice
217(1)
Green Tea
218(1)
Guggul
218(1)
Chromium
219(1)
Quercetin
219(1)
Soy Lecithin
219(1)
Garlic
220(1)
Vitamins C and E
220(2)
The Bottom Line
222(1)
Afterword 223(2)
Resources 225(6)
Index 231

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