Edited by Andrew Tonkin. 235 pp., illustrated. New York, Martin Dunitz, 2003. $99. ISBN 1-84184-123-4.
Atherosclerosis is a big killer. No longer just the area ofinterest of cardiologists looking for a fixed narrowing in acoronary artery of a patient with angina, it is the target diseaseto beat for diabetologists, lipidologists, doctors specializingin the treatment of hypertension, and increasingly, neurologists.Yet many of these "ologists" attend meetings of specialist societiesthat focus either on individual risk factors for atherosclerosisor on clinical manifestations of the atherosclerotic process.So it is timely that books are beginning to reappear on thetopic of atherosclerosis. (The word "reappear" is perhaps slightlymisleading, since the former . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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