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(Contemporary Cardiology.) Edited by JoAnne Micale Foody. 366 pp. Totowa, N.J., Humana Press, 2001. $99.50. ISBN 0-89603-811-4.

Preventive Cardiology covers the care of persons with risk factors for coronary disease. The editor is a major contributor to the field; all of her 27 coauthors are from the United States, and more than half are from the Cleveland Clinic. Their advice derives solely from U.S. guidelines, which may seem parochial to readers elsewhere.

The book illustrates the long-overdue swing from treatment toward prevention of coronary heart disease (CHD). Medical and allied professions have been slow to take up preventive measures against CHD, favoring interventional measures instead. The message of this book is timely: if the cost of treating . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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