Remedies in Cardiovascular Diseases: Perspectives From Clinical Experience

Strategies of diagnosis and management in patients with cardiovascular diseases has been improved by experience and knowledge in various fields of science, including hematology, immunology, endocrinology, biochemistry, pharmacology, genetics, engineering, etc. Ischemic heart disease has been a number-one killer in the Western countries, which forced physicians and basic scientists to understand the pathophysiological events and to advance technologies related to remedies of this disease. The trend of prevalence of cardiovascular diseases in Japanese and the rational bases for deciding new remedies will be discussed.