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Brain, Vol. 123, No. 5, 1065-1066, May 2000
© 2000 Oxford University Press

Book reviews

PREVENTION OF ISCHEMIC STROKE.

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Graeme Hankey

Royal Perth Hospital, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

The editors of this book aim to provide `both the specialist and primary care physician with an up-to-date review of the emerging opportunities for management and prevention of stroke.' Together with 39 other contributors they have assembled 19 chapters (290 pages) that do not appear to be organized in any coherent structure.

The book begins appropriately with a good chapter describing the burden of stroke, which sets the scene for the need for effective stroke prevention. The following chapter is also very good and describes the major risk factors for stroke and their role in primary stroke . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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