Clinical Management of Electrolyte Disorders

IT is always a pleasure to receive a volume produced by a colleague and one's pleasure is enhanced when the book turns out to be an excellent monograph on an important subject. Atherosclerosis, the aetiology of which remains to be elucidated, is the most important disease affecting adults in the Western world. It leads to premature death in males during the years of their greatest productivity and usefulness in the community and it is a source of death and serious morbidity in countless others in older age groups. In Northern Ireland we have good cause to fear the ravages of atherosclerosis since the death rate for coronary artery disease here is one of the highest in the developed world.