Monografiya posvyashchena sovremennym predstavleniyam o molekulyarno-kletochnykh mekhanizmakh ateroskleroza, novym dannym o roli modifitsirovannykh lipoproteidov nizkoy plotnosti, protsessakh vospaleniya v sosudistoy stenke, polovykh gormonakh i lipoproteidakh vysokoy plotnosti v aterogeneze. Predlagaetsya algoritm poiska antiateroskleroticheskikh prirodnykh preparatov s pomoshch'yu biotestirovaniya. Monografiya predstavlyaet interes kak dlya spetsialistov shirokogo profilya, zanimayushchikhsya problemami serdechno-sosudistoy patologii, tak i dlya studentov i aspirantov meditsinskikh universitetov.