Edited by
Morteza Naghavi

2011

In the past century, preventive cardiology has been in a defensive mode. Since James Herrick first reported Clinical Features of Sudden Obstruction of the Coronary Artery Disease in JAMA 1912, and Paul Dudley White wrote the textbook of Heart Disease in 1930 and helped create cardiac care units, cardiovascular medicine for the most part has focused on the detection and treatment of symptomatic coronary artery disease.