Edited by Joep Perk, Peter Mathes, and Helmut Gohlke, with five others. 517 pp., illustrated. London, Springer-Verlag, 2007. $249. ISBN 978-1-84628-462-5.
In this book, a group of distinguished European medical researchershas nicely orchestrated a multiauthored text that is an updateof knowledge about the prevention of cardiovascular diseaseand the rehabilitation of patients with such disease. The editorshave achieved their aim of providing guidance to health careprofessionals on how to prevent disease and provide lifestylecounseling and rehabilitation for patients. The more than 80experts who contributed to the book are largely from the EuropeanSociety of Cardiology's Association for Cardiovascular Preventionand Rehabilitation. However, authors from the United States,Canada, South Africa, Australia, and China also contributed. . . [Full Text of this Article]
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