期刊介绍：

A bewildering amount of information and statistics regarding cardiovascular disease is available in the medical literature and the public media. As a result, information about cardiovascular disease has become quite familiar both to health care professionals and to the public. It is timely to bring some perspective to this information, to identify the major trends that have occurred and to discern future directions. To this end, it may be useful to consider knowledge about cardiovascular disease in the 20th century as having developed in four phases. Although these four phases overlap temporally, they are distinct conceptually.