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Previous Volume 339:780 September 10, 1998 Number 11

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Edited by Desmond G. Julian and Nanette Kass Wenger. 454 pp., illustrated. London, Martin Dunitz, 1997. (Distributed by Mosby, St. Louis.). $124. ISBN 0-85317-287-1.

The difficulty of finding comprehensive data on women and cardiovascular disease makes this a timely and welcome book. In the introduction, the editors state that heart disease is the most common cause of death among women, yet this fact is not widely appreciated by women themselves or by the medical professionals who care for them. One temptation in compiling a book such as this would be to concentrate exclusively on the wealth of new data on the effects of female hormones in the cardiovascular system, particularly in relation to coronary heart disease. This book covers that subject very well, but . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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