Handbook of Lipoprotein Testing, 2nd Edition

For clinical chemists and pathologists, lipid chemists, and laboratory researchers involved with lipids and preventing cardiovascular disease, colleagues distill the knowledge of specialist who have successfully developed and refined techniques for measuring blood plasma lipoprotein concentrations, and applied them to clinical medicine. They cover atherosclerosis and its prevention; laboratory aspects of lipids, lipoproteins, and apolipoproteins; and issues of standardization and regulation. Among their specific topics are genetic markers to predict cardiovascular disease, desktop analyzers, and matrix effects in measuring and standardizing lipids and lipoproteins. No date is mentioned for the first edition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)