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Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine

Oxford University Press, 2015

Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine has become a classic text in the field of free radical and antioxidant research. Now in its fifth edition, the book has been comprehensively rewritten and updated whilst maintaining the clarity of its predecessors. Two new chapters discuss 'in vivo' and 'dietary' antioxidants, the first...

Oxidative Stress and Inflammatory Mechanisms in Obesity, Diabetes, and the Metabolic Syndrome (Oxidative Stress and Disease)

CRC Press, 2007

Characterized by obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension, metabolic syndrome is associated with the risks of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. Obesity, which increases the incidence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and subsequently leads to increased stress and inflammation, appears to play a...

Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine

Academic Press, 2004

Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine examines how normal human biology differs between men and women and how the diagnosis and treatment of disease differs as a function of gender. This revealing research covers various conditions that predominantly occur in men, and as well conditions that predominantly occur in women. Among the...

Chronic Infection, Chlamydia and Coronary Heart Disease (Developments in Cardiovascular Medicine)

Springer, 1999

Coronary heart disease (CHD) remains a major cause of human mortality and morbidity worldwide. Classical risk factors for atherosclerosis fail to account fully for the wide variations in CHD prevalence and/or severity between differing populations. The search for hitherto unrecognised risk factors has recently focused on the potential role of...

Review of Medical Physiology (LANGE Basic Science)

McGraw-Hill, 2003

In unicellular organisms, all vital processes occur in a single cell. As the evolution of multicellular organisms has progressed, various cell groups have taken over particular functions. In humans and other vertebrate animals, the specialized cell groups include a gastrointestinal system to digest and absorb food; a respiratory system to take...

Drug Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes

Springer, 2013

This book aims to provide an update on drugs available for the treatment of type 2 diabetes and where they fit within current treatment algorithms. The limited efficacy and tolerability of older drugs has spurred the development of several new classes of oral and injectable glucose-lowering agents with novel modes of action....

Robotic Radiosurgery. Treating Tumors that Move with Respiration

Springer, 2007

Harold C. Urschel, Jr. (Editor-in-Chief) John J. Kresl · James D. Luketich Lech Papiez ·Robert D. Timmerman (Co-Editors) Raymond A. Schulz (Contributing Editor) Treating Tumors that Move with Respiration With Contributions by Numerous Experts Foreword by E. Thomson With 116 Figures in 168 Separate Illustrations, 120 in Color and...

International Perspective, An Issue of Clinics in Sports Medicine, 1e (The Clinics: Orthopedics)

Saunders, 2008

Dr. Lyle Micheli, Director of Sports Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School and Vice-President, International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS) will guest edit this issue. The unifying theme of this edition will be subject matter unfamiliar to the North American sports medicine community. Some examples: the...

Mechanical Ventilation (Critical Care Clinics, April 2007, Volume 23, No. 2)

Saunders, 2007

The last decade has generated a growing fund of knowledge on how ventilator management can greatly impact patient outcome. The concepts developed by ARDS Network have been broadly accepted and placed into clinical practice, not only at university centers, but has filtered down to community hospitals. We are educating our...

American Medical Association Guide to Preventing and Treating Heart Disease

John Wiley & Sons, 2008

More Than 3 Million American Medical Association Books Sold.

American's most trusted medical authority shows you how to prevent and treat heart disease.

When you or someone you love is diagnosed with cardiovascular disease, it's important to know the facts, which can help save a life. In the American...

Atherosclerosis: Diet and Drugs (Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology)

Springer, 2005

Cardiovascular diseases continue to be the leading cause of death in the - jority of industrialized countries. The most frequent underlying pathology, namely atherosclerosis, and its clinical sequelae, namely coronary heart d- ease, cerebrovascular disease and peripheral artery disease, remain common although for a long time we have been made...

Perioperative Critical Care Cardiology (Topics in Anaesthesia and Critical Care)

Springer, 2008

This book details topics of particular importance to critical care cardiovascular diagnosis and management in the perioperative period. It represents an important update for anaesthesiologists, cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, emergency care physicians and intensivists caring for patients with acute, life-threatening cardiovascular...

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