"The New Heart-Disease Handbook is a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to preventing, reversing, and managing heart disease from one of the top heart doctors in the field today, Dr. Christopher Cannon. This book provides the latest information on surgical and non-surgical approaches as well as what guidelines to follow in regards to hotly debated treatment options like statins. For each condition and procedure, readers learn what to expect. Color pictures and diagrams make complex concepts understandable while checklists, self-assessments and appendices make the book a tool readers will reference again and again." -- from publisher's description.

The most effective treatments for major diseases that strike the heart. Chest pain and angina ; Heart attacks ; Diseases of other arteries ; Diseases of the heart muscle ; Diseases of the electrical system ; Structural heart disease ; Stroke -- The most effective ways to maintain your heart's health. Your heart : a guided tour ; How to determine your risk ; Living with heart disease ; All about cholesterol ; Controlling high blood pressure ; Diabetes and metabolic syndrome ; Lifestyle changes to heal your heart ; Women and heart disease -- Into the crystal ball -- Appendix I. How to save a life -- Appendix II. A reference of tests to diagnose heart disease -- Appendix III. A reference of medications that treat heart disease and their side effects -- Appendix IV. Heart-saving procedures.