Prevention and Treatment of Atherosclerosis [electronic resource] : Improving State-of-the-Art Management and Search for Novel Targets / edited by Arnold von Eckardstein, Christoph J. Binder.

Diet, Life Style, Smoking -- Blood Pressure Lowering -- Glycemic Control in Diabetes -- LDL-Cholesterol Lowering -- Antithrombotic Therapy (Platelet Inhibition, Anti-coagulation) -- Triglyceride Rich Lipoproteins -- HDL -- Lipoprotein(a) -- Obesity, Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, and Metabolic Syndrome -- Nutraceuticals / Functional Food -- Adipose Tissue (WAT, BAT) -- Microbiota and Cardiometabolic Disease -- SMCs, Matrix -- Immune Modulation -- NETs and Neutrophils -- Genomic Strategies Towards Identification of Novel Therapeutic Targets -- Non Coding RNAs -- Metabolomics, Lipidomics -- Epigenomics.

Open Access

This open access book is supported by the European Atherosclerosis Society Association (EAS). This follow-up edition of the well-received Handbook volume 'Atherosclerosis: Diet and Drugs' reflects the state-of-the-art and most recent developments in atherosclerosis research. Outstanding international experts give a comprehensive overview of the field covering topics, such as improving the treatment focusing on established targets, novel drug developments addressing pre-defined targets, hypothesis-based and hypothesis-free approaches to unravel novel targets. .