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Stroke in Blacks: A Guide to Management and Prevention
Stroke in Blacks: A Guide to Management and Prevention
Richard F. Gillum, MD, P.B. Gorelick, MD, E.S. Cooper, MD, eds.
230 pp. Basel, Switzerland: Karger; 1999. $100.00. ISBN 3-8055-6713-8.
This book addresses an area of great concern in medicine. Stroke is not only a leading cause of death, it also contributes significantly to morbidity. Its incidence in blacks is higher than its incidence in nonblacks; thus, it seems appropriate to address any special characteristics, concerns, and knowledge about stroke in this population. Information on primary and secondary prevention would also be welcomed by any physician or medical care provider working in this area. Primary prevention is where the focus should be for the future, although secondary prevention is equally important for those who have had the misfortune to have already suffered such an event. A guide to management should provide useful information for the diagnosis, characterization, and management of patients with stroke. This text is intended to do that, with a special emphasis on the black population.
There are multiple authors for the 20 chapters, each of
which is supposed to address a different aspect of stroke. The authors
of most chapters are well known and have experience in the areas
addressed in their chapters. However, many of the chapters begin the
same way, by providing a comparison of the incidence, prevalence,
morbidity, mortality, and statistical numbers for stroke between blacks
and nonblacks. Thus, the information is redundant. In addition,
sometimes there are unavoidable differences in this information,
because the