Books of interest outside of the usual. Check Roger to see what we might have on any topic.
Reminder: search for electronic books -- For this case, try, counseling patient, and then "Modify Search" and add "internet".
Vascular medicine : a companion to Braunwald's heart disease by 
Hyperlipidemia management for primary care : an evidence-based approach by 
Nutritional and Metabolic Bases of Cardiovascular Disease by 
Cardiovascular Genetics and Genomics for the Cardiologist by Not finding what you need? Having trouble using one of our resources? Please let us know.
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Don't forget that if your question is about medications, the drug info resources will help answer some of your questions. Also, those favorite point of care tools (under Clinical Resources) may be very helpful.
Resources for this case include:
Textbook Suggestions (look left)
Genetics Resources -- Redux
Featured Resource: Cochrane Library
MedlinePlus -- Don't forget to try this one too
Tips from week 1
Genetics Resources
The following resources are available to everyone without a subscription and for the most part have been developed with government funding. These tools will be available to you even when you graduate and move on from UCSD.
Evidence-based Tools
What is the evidence? How do you quickly find the best evidence is a better question. It is all about the tools, so know your tools. A PubMed search will give you a large number of studies, some good, some not so good. Filters will help you get to high evidence (think Randomize Controlled Trials or Systematic Reviews) or if you know the Clinical Queries, you can get the systematic reviews, but, there is an easier way to get to that already synthesized literature -- through the Cochrane library.
Cochrane Library, or more specifically, their Database of Systematic Reviews
The good news, when you find your answer here, it is a very quick process to get to very pertinent data as the data of many research trials is combined into one cohesive resource. The bad news, great stuff takes time to build so not all topics are here in Cochrane.
For this case, see what the resource has to say (if anything) about best diets or compare the mediterannean to the DASH diet or see what the treatments are for hypercholesterolemia.
Once at the Cochrane Library -- link is below -- enter your search terms (even MeSH terms) and GO.
There are many sections to the Cochrane library and if you want, you can search only the Database of Systematic Reviews. The "Other Reviews" sections are just abstracts of articles - so to see them, copy the title and head to PubMed.
Here's an example of the simple dash diet search - only "Other Reviews" are available.
However, there is much more for FH.
The advantage of this resource is that while there are fewer items, they point to good quality synthesized articles.
PubMed Search Tips
The following are a few tips on exploiting the power of PubMed.
MedlinePlus is particularly helpful for this case as the patient's are asking for more information. You've seen the list of organizations offering patient information - do you have a favorite? Have you evaluated all of them to know which answers their questions the best?
Let MedlinePlus direct your patient's to the best material - it gathers governmental and national organization's patient-oriented information into one location.
Use it as a quick intro to a topic such as cholesterol and genetics. You will even find a link to PubMed articles.
