Hyperlipidemia in Primary Care A Practical Guide to Risk Reduction
Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death for men and women in this country, surpassing deaths due to all cancers combined. Better awareness of heart disease risk factors and improved treatment modalities has produced great progress in reduc
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Hyperlipidemia in Primary Care A Practical Guide to Risk Reduction
Foreword by Neil S. Skolnik
Editor Matthew J. Sorrentino Department of Medicine Section of Cardiology University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Chicago, IL 60637, USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-60327-501-9 e-ISBN 978-1-60327-502-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-60327-502-6 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011932354 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Humana Press, c/o Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Humana Press is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Cardiac disease is the number one cause of mortality in the USA. It is also the number one cause of preventable deaths, with the largest opportunity for improvement in health to be had through the careful control of cardiac risk factors. These risk factors are generally amenable to improvement both through lifestyle interventions and through pharmacologic intervention. Both approaches are important, and the challenge for the primary care physician is to decide which patient warrants which form of therapy at what time, and once a given therapy is decided upon, how to help patients comply with recommendations. In developing an accessible, readable book, Hyperlipidemia in Primary Care: A Practical Guide to Risk Reduction, Dr. Sorrentino helps us in our job as primary care physicians in tackling hyperlipidemia, a major cardiac risk factor which primary care physicians address many times every day in the office. In fact, based on the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, there were over 100 million visits for hyperlipidemia to primary care clinicians in 2008 [1]. Appropriate treatment of high cholesterol should be viewed as one of the most importa
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