Second Edition
This completely revised and updated edition, redesigned for easy access and filled with healthy heart tips, includes the latest information on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease, the number one killer of women as well as men in many developed countries. Advances in minimally invasive surgeries; the risks and benefits of in-the-news topics such as fish oil and margarine; insights about cardiac disease in women; the controversy surrounding appetite suppressants and heart damage; even new horizons in gene therapy are discussed in full, and much more.