Edited by Susan Wilansky and James T. Willerson. 672 pp., illustrated. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 2002. $129.95. ISBN 0-443-07900-5.
Cardiovascular disease has been the leading cause of death amongwomen for years, but a textbook on the unique characteristicsof heart disease in women was virtually nonexistent just a decadeago. Fortunately, since Bernadine Healy, former director ofthe National Institutes of Health (NIH,) mandated that NIH-fundedtrials must include women, there has been much more informationavailable on sex-specific diagnosis, management, and treatmentof heart disease. Even so, since heart disease in women is stilldiagnosed later in the course of disease than it is in men,and since women are less likely to receive optimal therapies,it . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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