The essential evidence provided by the major clinical trials constitutes the basis for modern treatment of cardiovascular disease.
To extract the essential findings and to make them more accessible to the greatest number, the authors have organized, clarified and precisely and concisely summarized these trials to help the practitioner keep up to date with progress in cardiology, revise certain facts previously considered to be definitively acquired and, most importantly, make well informed treatment décisions which, more than ever, must be évidence-based.