Table of Contents

Ch 1 A Historical Perspective on Atherothrombosis and Coronary Artery Disease W. Bruce Fye Ch 2 Incidence, Prevalence, and Mortality of Coronary Artery Disease William B. Kannel Section I Major Risk Factors and Primary Prevention Ch 3 Overview Henry C. McGill, Jr. and C. A. McMahan Lipid Abnormalities Ch 4 Lipids, Nutrition, and Coronary Heart Disease Scott M. Grundy Ch 5 Genetic Dyslipoproteinemias H. Brian Brewer, Jr. and Silvia Santamarian-Fojo Ch 6 Structure and Function of the Plasma Lipoproteins and Their Receptors John P. Kane Ch 7 Plasma High Density Lipoproteins and Atherogenesis Daniel Rader Ch 8 Oxidized Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis Guy M. Chisolm Ch 9 Lipoprotein Angelo M. Scanu Ch 10 Clinical Classifications Thomas P. Bersot and Robert W. Mahley Ch 11 Management and ATP III Guidelines John A. Farmer and Antonio M. Gotto, Jr. Ch 12 Impact of Management in Stabilization and Decrease in Cardiovascular Events B. Greg Brown and Antonio M. Gotto, Jr. Hypertension, Cigarette Smoking, Diabetes, Obesity and Others Ch 13 Genetics and Mechanisms of Hypertension Steven C. Hunt and Paul N. Hopkins Ch 14 Renin Angiotensin System and Atherothrombotic Vascular Disease Victor J. Dzau and Aram V. Chobanian Ch 15 Clinical Classifications of Hypertension Edward D. Frohlich Ch 16 Management of Hypertension Norman M. Kaplan Ch 17 Hypertensive Heart Disease Robert A. Phillips and Joseph A. Diamond Ch 18 Cigarette Smoking and Atherothrombosis Thomas Pickering and Lynn Clemow Ch 19 Diabetes, Obesity, and the Metabolic Syndrome Doron Aronson and Elliot J. Rayfield Ch 20 Hormonal Replacement: Pros and Cons Lori Mosca Ch 21 Vitamins: Pros and Cons Joan E. B. Fox Section II Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis General Principles Ch 22 Developmental Biology of the Vasculature Margaret Kirby Ch 23 Vasculogenesis Peter Carmeliet Ch 24 Embryogenesis of the Vascular System Brant Weinstein Ch 25 Mouse Models of Lipoprotein and Atherothrombosis Andrew Plump Ch 26 Genetics of Atherothrombotic Disease Pierre Zoldhelyi The Normal Artery Ch 27 Vascular Endothelium Paul E. DiCorleto Ch 28 Role of Alterations in the Differentiated State of Smooth Muscle Cell in Atherothrombogenesis Gary K. Owens Ch 29 The Vascular Extracellular Matrix Thomas N. Wight The Lesions of Atherothrombosis Ch 30 The Histological Classification of Atherosclerotic Lesions Herbert C. Stary