Cardiologists and other specialists from Europe, the US, Egypt, India, and Australia provide 34 chapters on heart disease in women. They address prevention and risk factors, including myths and facts, sex differences, hypertension, stroke, smoking, job stress, and hormonal transitions and the cardiovascular system; coronary heart disease; noninvasive testing, including echocardiography, stress testing, and stress myocardial perfusion testing; heart failure; arrhythmias; valvular heart disease; pregnancy and congenital heart disease; cardiomyopathy; pericarditis; rheumatic heart disease; peripheral arterial disease; and the cardiovascular implications of cancer. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)