In general, the salaries of women are significantly lower
than their male counterparts in
academia, as most recently reported by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in its 2002 Annual Report on the Economic
Status of the Profession — although the discrepancies have existed for at least 30 years.
In this Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology on «High Density Lipoproteins — from biological understanding to clinical exploitation» contributing authors (members of COST Action BM0904 / HDLnet) summarize in more
than 20 chapters our current knowledge on the structure, function, metabolism and regulation of HDL in health and several diseases as well as the
status of past and ongoing attempts of therapeutic exploitation.The book is of interest to researchers in
academia and industry focusing on lipoprotein metabolism, cardiovascular diseases and immunology as well as clinical pharmacologists, cardiologists, diabetologists, nephrologists and other clinicians interested in metabolic or inflammatory diseases...