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 decisions which, more than ever,

must be evidence-based.