Drugs for the Heart (3rd ed) Dr Lionel H. Opie, WB Saunders Co, 55 Homer Ave, Toronto, ON M8Z 4X6, 1991, 302 pp This book, the title of which is self-explanatory, is written by a well-known cardiologist and eight other authors. It has already earned a good reputation as a quick reference for cardiac drugs, [...]
A Century of Arterial Hypertension 1896-1996 Ed Nicolas Postel-Vinay, 213pp • ISBN 0 471 96788 2, Chichester: Wiley, 1996 The French Society of Arterial Hypertension have designated the year 1896 as year 1 of hypertension, so on this reckoning we are celebrating a major centenary. To celebrate the anniversary of a disease is unusual. For [...]
Salt, Diet and Health: Neptune’s Poison Chalice: The Origins of High Blood Pressure. G. A. MacGregor and H. E. de Wardner. 1998. (233 pp). ISBN 0521635454 (soft). Salt, ubiquitous in the modern diet and essential for life, is also a modern addiction, with all of the consequences the word implies. The dietary salt-potassium ratio of [...]
