If you're browsing through The Heart of the Matter, the threat of
cardiac disease is lurking in your mind, and with good reason. Although
national programs to contain this killer are highly successful and ahead
of schedule, heart disease remains highly prevalent and deadly. Medical
research during the last 15 years has successfully defined many
treatment strategies that work, and many that don't. Your task is not to
understand this mountain of information, but to know the critical
questions to ask your doctor when you are in trouble. The Heart of the
Matter will highlight for you the right questions to ask after your
heart attack, or if you're afflicted by hypertension, high cholesterol,
or heart failure. Before you need a pacemaker, defibrillator, heart
surgery, or angioplasty, the right questions need to be asked, and
you'll find out why they're important. Take advantage of all of the
recent research and years of clinical experience by the authors in
managing heart disease.