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By Menard M. Gertler and Paul D. White. 218 pp., illustrated. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1954. Out of print.

Although books of historical interest are not often the subject of reviews in the Journal, it is appropriate that this book by Gertler and White be recognized in this way. This book, published 40 years ago, marked a turning point in the history of coronary heart disease, but it has never received the recognition it deserves. It describes an extensive multidisciplinary study of 100 patients who had survived for at least six months after a documented myocardial infarction that occurred when they were 40 years old or younger. The clinical findings in these patients were compared with those in matched . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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