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Edited by Cesare Fieschi and Marc Fisher. 290 pp., illustrated. London, Martin Dunitz, 2000. £65. ISBN 1-85317-738-5.

This book compiles the efforts of 41 contributing authors (many of whom are leaders in the field) to address most of the major issues in the prevention of stroke. With its strong emphasis on adequately powered, randomized, controlled, multicenter trials, this book celebrates the transition to evidence-based medicine that has been accelerating in the field of stroke prevention since the 1970s. It also provides data from most of the key clinical studies on stroke prevention. Several chapters address the epidemiology of stroke as well as its human and economic burdens. Other chapters deal with the relation between stroke and heart . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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