Pages: 632,
Specialty: Cardiology,
Publisher: Elsevier,
Publication Year: 2011,
Cover: Hardback,
Dimensions: 226.06x281.94x27.94mm

"Preventive Cardiology" - a new Companion to "Braunwald's Heart Disease" - addresses the prevention and risk stratification of cardiovascular disease so that you can delay the onset of disease and moderate the effects and complications. Drs. Roger Blumenthal, JoAnne Foody, and Nathan Wong discuss the full range of relevant considerations, including the epidemiology of heart disease, risk assessment, risk factors, multiple risk factor-based prevention strategies, and developments in genetics and personalized medicine. With access to the fully searchable text online at our associated website, this authoritative reference gives you the clinically relevant information you need for the effective prevention of cardiovascular disease.show more