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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Authors

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• • ·Conflict of interest for the physician-inventor using a device in human subjects

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    Richard L. Popp

    
• • ·Atrial fibrillation and quality of life: Clarity or evidence-based confusion?

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    David Newman

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• • ·Diagnostic approach to the patient with cardiomyopathy: Whom to biopsy

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    Hossein Ardehali, Edward K. Kasper, Kenneth L. Baughman

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• • ·The Coronary ArteryRevascularisation in Diabetes (CARDia) trial: Background, aims, and design

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    A. Kapur, I.S. Malik, J.P. Bagger, J.R. Anderson, J.S. Kooner, M. Thomas, P. Punjabi, J. Mayet, T. Millane, J. Goedicke, K. Jamrozik, M.A. de Belder, R.J. Hall, K.J. Beatt

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• • ·Metabolic syndrome: Evaluation of pathological and therapeutic outcomes

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    Phillippa J. Miranda, Ralph A. DeFronzo, Robert M. Califf, John R. Guyton

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• • ·Metabolic syndrome: Definition, pathophysiology, and mechanisms

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    Phillippa J. Miranda, Ralph A. DeFronzo, Robert M. Califf, John R. Guyton

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• • ·Relationship between adolescent fitness and fatness and cardiovascular disease risk factors in adulthood: The Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study (ACLS)

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    Joey C. Eisenmann, Eric E. Wickel, Gregory J. Welk, Steven N. Blair

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• • ·Prognostic impact of body weight and abdominal obesity in women and men with cardiovascular disease

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    Gilles R. Dagenais, Qilong Yi, Johannes F.E. Mann, Jackie Bosch, Janice Pogue, Salim Yusuf, on behalf of the Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation (HOPE) Study Investigators

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• • ·Factors associated with an increased chance of survival among patients suffering from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a national perspective in Sweden

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    Johan Herlitz, Johan Engdahl, Leif Svensson, Karl-Axel Ängquist, Marie Young, Stig Holmberg

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• • ·Impact of age on management and outcome of acute coronary syndrome: Observations from the global registry of acute coronary events (GRACE)

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    Alvaro Avezum, Marcia Makdisse, Frederick Spencer, Joel M. Gore, Keith A.A. Fox, Gilles Montalescot, Kim A Eagle, Kami White, Rajendra H. Mehta, Elias Knobel, Jean- Philippe Collet, for the GRACE Investigators

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• • ·Prediction of missed myocardial infarction among symptomatic outpatients without coronary heart disease

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    Thomas D. Sequist, David W. Bates, E.Francis Cook, Steven Lampert, Mary Schaefer, Jenny Wright, Luke Sato, Thomas H. Lee

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• • ·Hospital therapy traditions influence long-term survival in patients with acute myocardial infarction

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    Ulf Stenestrand, Johan Lindbäck, Lars Wallentin, for the Register of Information and Knowledge about Swedish Heart Intensive care Admissions (RIKS-HIA)

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• • ·ST resolution in a single electrocardiographic lead: A simple and accurate predictor of cardiac mortality in patients with fibrinolytic therapy for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction

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    Uwe Zeymer, Klaus Schröder, Karl Wegscheider, Jochen Senges, Karl-Ludwig Neuhaus, Rolf Schröder

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• • ·Does current treatment of cardiogenic shock complicating the acute coronary syndromes comply with guidelines?

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    Zaza Iakobishvili, Solomon Behar, Valentina Boyko, Alexander Battler, David Hasdai

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• • ·Impact of physicians' beliefs and practices on cholesterol levels in patients with type 2 diabetes: A longitudinalassessment

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    Monica Franciosi, Fabio Pellegrini, Giorgia De Berardis, Maurizio Belfiglio, Barbara Di Nardo, Sheldon Greenfield, Sherrie H. Kaplan, Maria C.E. Rossi, Michele Sacco, Gianni Tognoni, Miriam Valentini, Antonio Nicolucci, Quality of Care and Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes (QuED) Study Group

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• • ·Comparison of the efficacy and safety of atorvastatin initiated at different starting doses in patients with dyslipidemia

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    Peter H. Jones, James M. McKenney, Dean G. Karalis, Jackson Downey, on behalf of the NASDAC Investigators

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• • ·Quality of life in atrial fibrillation: The Atrial Fibrillation Follow-up Investigation of Rhythm Management (AFFIRM) study

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    The AFFIRM Investigators ⁎ 1

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• • ·Sex, quality of care, and outcomes of elderly patients hospitalized with heart failure: Findings from the National Heart Failure Project

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    Saif S. Rathore, JoAnne Micale Foody, Yongfei Wang, Jeph Herrin, Frederick A. Masoudi, Edward P. Havranek, Diana L. Ordin, Harlan M. Krumholz

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• • ·Collaterals and the recovery of left ventricular function after recanalization of a chronic total coronary occlusion

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    Gerald S. Werner, Ralf Surber, Friedhelm Kuethe, Ulf Emig, Gero Schwarz, Philipp Bahrmann, Hans R. Figulla

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• • ·Elective percutaneous coronary intervention using broad-spectrum antiplatelet therapy (eptifibatide, clopidogrel, and aspirin) alone, without scheduled unfractionated heparin or other antithrombin therapy

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    Scott J. Denardo, Keith E. Davis, James E. Tcheng

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• • ·The angiotensin II receptor blocker candesartan cilexetil reduces neointima proliferation after coronary stent implantation : A prospective randomized study under intravascular ultrasound guidance

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    Osamu Yoshida, Haruo Hirayama, Mamoru Nanasato, Toshiya Watanabe, Toyoaki Murohara

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• • ·Incremental prognostic value of exercise single-photon emission computed tomographic (SPECT) thallium 201 imaging in patients with ST-T abnormalities on their resting electrocardiograms

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    Jennifer M.F. Kwok, Timothy F. Christian, Todd D. Miller, David O. Hodge, Raymond J. Gibbons

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• • ·Determinants of functional capacity in patients with chronic heart failure: Role of filling pressure and systolic and diastolic function

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    Neil Smart, Brian Haluska, Rodel Leano, Colin Case, Philip M. Mottram, Thomas H. Marwick

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• • ·Efficacy, safety and tolerability of metoprolol CR/XL in patients with diabetes and chronic heart failure: Experiences from MERIT-HF

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    Prakash C. Deedwania, Thomas D. Giles, Michael Klibaner, Jalal K. Ghali, Johan Herlitz, Per Hildebrandt, John Kjekshus, Jindrich Spinar, Jiri Vitovec, Hilary Stanbrook, John Wikstrand, MERIT-HF Study Group *

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• • ·Insulin-treated diabetes is associated with a marked increase in mortality in patients with advanced heart failure

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    Stephanie Smooke, Tamara B. Horwich, Gregg C. Fonarow

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• • ·Oxygen uptake efficiency slope, a new submaximal parameter in evaluating exercise capacity in chronic heart failure patients

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    Christophe Van Laethem, Jozef Bartunek, Marc Goethals, Paul Nellens, Erik Andries, Marc Vanderheyden

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• • ·Insert On the Move box

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• • ·Additional impact of electrocardiographic over echocardiographic diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy for predicting the risk of ischemic stroke

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    Shun Kohsaka, Robert R. Sciacca, Kenichi Sugioka, Ralph L. Sacco, Shunichi Homma, Marco R. Di Tullio

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• • ·Clopidogrel-aspirin combination for atrial fibrillation: CLAAF is not CLEAR

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    Shane L. Jackson, Gregory M. Peterson, Luke R. Bereznicki

    
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    Raffaele De Caterina, Roberto Lorenzoni