A sound knowledge of cardiovascular physiology is fundamental to understanding cardiovascular disease, exercise performance and may other aspects of human physiology.Cardiovascular physiology is a major component of all undergraduate courses in physiology, biomedical science and medicine, and this popular introduction to the subject is intended primarily for these students.A key feature of this sixth edition is how state-of-the-art technology is applied to understanding cardiovascular function in health and disease.Thus the text is also well suited to graduate study programmes in medicine and physiological sciences.