Cardiovascular Medicine at the Turn of the Millennium: Triumphs, Concerns, and Opportunities

TLDR

The lecture reflects on a century of cardiovascular disease research, noting the profound influence of the NHLBI and AHA. The purpose is to comment on progress in cardiovascular disease as the NHLBI and AHA celebrate their golden anniversaries. No further information is provided.

Abstract

Tthe end of every century it is customary to reflect on the events of the past hundred years and to look toward the future, and in this lecture I should like to do this for cardiovascular disease. This is also an especially opportune time to comment on progress in cardiovascular disease, because both the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the American Heart Association are celebrating their golden anniversaries within the next 18 months. These two organizations have had the most profound influence on the development of research on cardiovascular disease during the 20th century. A bewildering amount of . . . M.