Diabetes and Atherosclerosis

Contributors; Part 1: Diabetes and Lipids; Lipoproteins: structure and function - Barbara V. Howard; Low density lipoprotein metabolism in diabetes - Peter D. Reaven, Sylvie Picard, and Joseph L. Witztum; Triglyceride-rich lipoproteins in diabetes - Gary L. Lewis and George Steiner; High-density lipoproteins transport in diabetes - John D. Bagdade; Lipoprotein lipases and diabetes mellitus - Robert H. Eckel; Reverse cholesterol transport, lecithin: Cholesterol acyltransferase and cholesterol ester transfer in insulin-dependent and noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus - Christopher J. Fielding; Clinical picture and therapy of dyslipidemia in diabetes mellitus - Abhimanyu Garg and Scott M. Grundy; Part 2: Diabetes and Atherosclerosis; Reaction of the muscular and fibroelastic artery wall in diabetes - Thomas Ledet and Robert W. Wissler; Hyperinsulinemia, the insulin resistance syndrome and the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis - Karl E. Sussman; Glycosylation-related mechanisms - Timothy J. Lyons and Maria F. Lopes-Virella; Endothelial cell abnormalities in diabetes - George L. King et al; Thrombosis and atherogenesis in diabetes - Peter D. Winocour and Mary Richardson; Diabetes and atherosclerosis: Epidemiological considerations - Steven M. Haffner, Michael P. Stern and Marian Rewers; Heart disease in patients with diabetes mellitus - Allan Sniderman, Caroline Michel, and Normand Racine; Part 3: Diabetes and Hypertension; Mechanisms of hypertension in diabetes mellitus - Luciano Rossetti and Simona Frontoni; Hypertension, insulin function, and calcium - Jeffrey L. Ram, Paul R. Standley and James R. Sowers; Vascular smooth muscle in diabetes: Function and relevance to hypertension - Michael L. Tuck; Insulin resistance and hypertension - Boris Draznin; Epidemiology and genetics of hypertension in diabetes mellitus - Andrzej S. Krolewski and James H. Warram; Clinical picture and therapy of hypertension in diabetes mellitus - Susan Savage and Robert W. Schrier.