Heart attack! : advice for patients by patients / Kathleen Berra [and others].

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2002], ©2002.

xiii, 232 pages ; 21 cm

1. Heart attack and you / Kathleen Berra and Gerald W. Friedland -- 2. A heart attack in the new millennium / Jose Ibarra -- 3. Doing it my way / Hans Forsell -- 4. It takes a team / Max Kramer -- 5. Reversing angina / Helen L'Amoreaux -- 6. Preventive medicine works / Peter Jones -- 7. Modern cardiology, cardiac surgery, and my angina / David Moses -- 8. Success without angioplasty or surgery / Jacob Gershon -- 9. Miracles can happen with the two Ds / Verne Peters -- 10. Young people do not get heart attacks (wrong!) / Sonny Adams -- 11. Myth : you are lucky to be a woman / Joy Sing -- 12. Risk factors from a patient's perspective / Jerry Fox -- 13. The complexities of proper nutrition / Christopher Gardner -- 14. Testing and treatment / Francis H. Koch -- 15. An introduction to cardiac rehabilitation programs / Kathleen Berra -- 16. Cardiac rehabilitation in action / Donna Louie, Nancy Houston Miller, and Robin Wedell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.