chapter 1 Lipids and Health: Past, Present, and Future -- chapter 2 Cardiovascular Risk Assessment -- chapter 3 Basic Lipidology -- chapter 4 Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism -- chapter 5 The Vascular Biology of Atherosclerosis -- chapter 6 Exercise Training and Endothelial Function in Patients at Risk for and with Documented Coronary Artery Disease -- chapter 7 Essential Laboratory Methods for Blood Lipid and Lipoprotein Analysis -- chapter 8 Metabolic Syndrome -- chapter 9 Obesity, Lipoproteins, and Exercise -- chapter 10 Pharmacological Treatments of Lipid Abnormalities -- chapter 11 New Insights on the Role of Lipids and Lipoproteins in Cardiovascular Disease: The Modulating Effects of Nutrition -- chapter 12 Physical Activity, Exercise, Blood Lipids, and Lipoproteins -- chapter 13 Acute Changes in Lipids and Lipoprotein- Lipids Induced by Exercise -- chapter 14 Smoking, Heart Disease, and Lipoprotein Metabolism -- chapter 15 Lipid and Lipoprotein Concentrations in Americans: Ethnicity and Age.