Each year a million Americans die as a

result of cardiovascular disease. Many of

those deaths might have been prevented

had the victims or their families had at

hand the information in this book.

Authorized by the American Heart As-

sociation and written by thirty-one of the

nation s leading heart specialists, the

Heartbook covers in full the new tech-

niques that have revolutionized the diag-

nosis and treatment of heart disease in

recent years. It also tells in detail what

danger signals to watch out for. Beyond

this, the book answers hundreds of vital

questions about personal risk factors,

stroke, hypertension, diet and nutrition,,

cholesterol, smoking (and how to stop),

surgery, drugs, emergency treatment, ex-

ercise, and how to live with heart disease.

Not long ago, heart attacks and strokes

were believed to he the inevitable result of

aging or genetic defects, to be fatalistically

endured. Today, Dr. Richard S. Hurley of

the American Heart Association writes