Handbook of Lipoprotein Testing.

Handbook of Lipoprotein Testing. Nader Rifai, G. Russell Wamick, Marek H. Dominiczack, eds. Washington D.C.: AACC Press, 1997, 598 pp., $75.00. ISBN 0-915274-92-2 This book has its origins in Methods for Clinical Laboratory Measurement of Lipid and Lipoprotein Risk Factors , published in 1991 and more recently in the Laboratory Measurement of Lipids, Lipoproteins and Apolipoproteins , published in 1994. Continuing with this trend of updating the information every three years, the editors of this state-of-the-art work on lipid, lipoprotein, and apolipoprotein measurements have assembled an impressive group of lipid experts who have contributed to create an excellent compendium of everything-that-you-should-know-about-lipids. The book has been divided into 31 chapters. Chapters 1 through 3 present the fundamental information regarding our current knowledge of lipoprotein …