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Offers a fundamental explanation of the workings of the heart and the circulatory system, as well as information on cardiovascular disease, medical treatments, and cardiac health.
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Mayo Clinic has the answers people want, as their highly successful books prove--Mayo Clinic Family Health Book has sold more than one million copies worldwide since 1990. Now Mayo introduces a completely revised and updated edition of Mayo Clinic Heart Book. Redesigned for easy access and filled with "Healthy Heart Tips," the book includes the latest information on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular disease, the number one killer of women as well as men in our country. Advances in minimally invasive surgeries; the risks and benefits of in-the-news topics such as fish oil and margarine; insights about cardiac disease in women; the controversy surrounding appetite suppressants and heart damage; even new horizons in gene therapy are discussed in full, and much more. Mayo Clinic has the answers people want, as their highly successful books prove--Mayo Clinic Family Health Book has sold more than one million copies worldwide since 1990. Now Mayo introduces a completely revised and updated edition of Mayo Clinic Heart Book. Redesigned for easy access and filled with "Healthy Heart Tips," the book includes the latest information on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular disease, the number one killer of women as well as men in our country. Advances in minimally invasive surgeries; the risks and benefits of in-the-news topics such as fish oil and margarine; insights about cardiac disease in women; the controversy surrounding appetite suppressants and heart damage; even new horizons in gene therapy are discussed in full, and much more.Mayo Clinic has the answers people want, as their highly successful books prove--Mayo Clinic Family Health Book has sold more than one million copies worldwide since 1990. Now Mayo introduces a completely revised and updated edition of Mayo Clinic Heart Book. Redesigned for easy access and filled with "Healthy Heart Tips," the book includes the latest information on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular disease, the number one killer of women as well as men in our country. Advances in minimally invasive surgeries; the risks and benefits of in-the-news topics such as fish oil and margarine; insights about cardiac disease in women; the controversy surrounding appetite suppressants and heart damage; even new horizons in gene therapy are discussed in full, and much more.
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