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• • ·The Mode Selection Trial (MOST) in sinus node dysfunction: Design, rationale, and baseline characteristics of the first 1000 patients

    Page :541-551

    Gervasio A. Lamas, Kerry Lee, Michael Sweeney, Angel Leon, Raymond Yee, Ken Ellenbogen, Stephen Greer, David Wilber, Russell Silverman, Roger Marinchak, Robert Bernstein, Robert S. Mittleman, Eric H. Lieberman, Cindi Sullivan, Lisa Zorn, Greg Flaker, Eleanor Schron, E.John Orav, Lee Goldman

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• • ·Extending the useful life of clinical trials

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    Patricia A. Cowper, Eric D. Peterson

    
• • ·Detection of threatening atherosclerotic plaque: Technologic advancement and opportunities

    Page :554-555

    Puvi Narayanan Seshiah, Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont

    
• • ·Projected long-term costs of coronary stenting in multivessel coronary disease based on the experience of the Bypass Angioplasty Revascularization Investigation (BARI)

    Page :556-564

    Cynthia A. Yock, Derek B. Boothroyd, Douglas K. Owens, Carla Winston, Mark A. Hlatky

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• • ·Tissue characterization of atherosclerotic plaques by intravascular ultrasound radiofrequency signal analysis: An in vitro study of human coronary arteries

    Page :565-574

    Nobuyuki Komiyama, Gerald J. Berry, Matthew L. Kolz, Akio Oshima, Jonas A. Metz, Peter Preuss, Axel F. Brisken, M.Pauliina Moore, Paul G. Yock, Peter J. Fitzgerald

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• • ·Cardiac structure and function in fetuses of mothers infected with HIV: The prospective P²C²HIV multicenter study

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    Lisa K. Hornberger, Steven E. Lipshultz, Kirk A. Easley, Steven D. Colan, Marcy Schwartz, Samuel Kaplan, Thomas J. Starc, Nancy A. Ayres, Wyman W. Lai, Douglas S. Moodie, Carol Kasten-Sportes, Stephen P. Sanders, for the P2C2HIV Study Group

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• • ·Misrepresentation of left ventricular contractile function by endocardial indexes: Clinical implications after coarctation repair

    Page :585-595

    Thomas L. Gentles, Stephen P. Sanders, Steven D. Colan

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• • ·Evaluation of left ventricular volumes and ejection fraction with a nonfluoroscopic endoventricular three-dimensional mapping technique

    Page :596-602

    Glenn Van Langenhove, Jaap N. Hamburger, Peter C. Smits, Mariano Albertal, Emile Onderwater, I.Patrick Kay, Patrick W. Serruys

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• • ·Abciximab provides cost-effective survival advantage in high-volume interventional practice

    Page :603-610

    Dean J. Kereiakes, Robert L. Obenchain, Beth L. Barber, Andrew Smith, Mark McDonald, Thomas M. Broderick, John Paul Runyon, Thomas M. Shimshak, John F. Schneider, Charles R. Hattemer, Eli M. Roth, David D. Whang, Douglas Cocks, Charles W. Abbottsmith

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• • ·Ventricular dilation after anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the thrombolytic era

    Page :611-616

    Azfar G. Zaman, Gerard Helft, Stephen G. Worthley, John L. Morris, John H. Smyllie

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• • ·Renal endothelin in heart failure and its relation to sodium excretion

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    Pietro Amedeo Modesti, Ilaria Cecioni, Alessandro Costoli, Loredana Poggesi, Giorgio Galanti, Gian Gastone Neri Serneri

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• • ·Efficacy, safety, and effects on quality of life of bisoprolol/hydrochlorothiazide versus amlodipine in elderly patients with systolic hypertension

    Page :623-629

    Athanase Benetos, Silla Consoli, Alain Safavian, Arnaud Dubanchet, Michel Safar

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• • ·Long-term central hemodynamic effects at rest and during exercise of losartan in essential hypertension

    Page :624-630

    Per Omvik, Eva Gerdts, Per Lund-Johansen, Ole L. Myking

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• • ·Effect of niacin, warfarin, and antioxidant therapy on coagulation parameters in patients with peripheral arterial disease in the Arterial Disease Multiple Intervention Trial (ADMIT)

    Page :631-636

    Carolyn M. Chesney, Marshall B. Elam, J.Alan Herd, Kathryn B. Davis, Rekha Garg, Donald Hunninghake, J.Ward Kennedy, William B. Applegate

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• • ·Superiority of enoxaparin versus unfractionated heparin for unstable angina/non-Q-wave myocardial infarction regardless of activated partial thromboplastin time

    Page :637-642

    Gerardo E. Bozovich, Enrique P. Gurfinkel, Elliott M. Antman, Carolyn H. McCabe, Branco Mautner, for the TIMI 11B investigators

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• • ·Effect of delay on racial differences in thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction

    Page :643-650

    Mushabbar Syed, Fareed Khaja, Nancy Wulbrecht, Mohsin Alam, Hani N. Sabbah, Sidney Goldstein, Steven Borzak, Benjamin A. Rybicki

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• • ·Adequacy of intracoronary versus intravenous adenosine-induced maximal coronary hyperemia for fractional flow reserve measurements

    Page :651-657

    Allen Jeremias, Robert J. Whitbourn, Steven D. Filardo, Peter J. Fitzgerald, David J. Cohen, E.Murat Tuzcu, William D. Anderson, Alexandre A. Abizaid, Gary S. Mintz, Alan C. Yeung, Morton J. Kern, Paul G. Yock

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• • ·Incidence of left atrial thrombi in patients in sinus rhythm and with a recent neurologic deficit

    Page :658-662

    Heyder Omran, Barbara Rang, Harald Schmidt, Stefan Illien, Rainer Schimpf, Dean MacCarter, Ralf Kubini, Giso von der Recke, Klaus Tiemann, Harald Becher, Berndt Lüderitz

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• • ·Changes in rates of ?-blocker use between 1994 and 1997 among elderly survivors of acute myocardial infarction

    Page :663-671

    Debra A. Heller, Frank M. Ahern, Mark Kozak

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• • ·Twenty-four-hour autonomic nervous function in sustained and “white coat” hypertension

    Page :672-677

    Sante D. Pierdomenico, Anna Bucci, Fabrizio Costantini, Domenico Lapenna, Franco Cuccurullo, Andrea Mezzetti

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• • ·Sex differences on the electrocardiographic pattern of cardiac repolarization: Possible role of testosterone

    Page :678-683

    Héctor Bidoggia, Juan P. Maciel, Norberto Capalozza, Susana Mosca, Enrique J. Blaksley, Esteban Valverde, Guillermo Bertran, Pedro Arini, Marcelo O. Biagetti, Ricardo A. Quinteiro

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• • ·Endothelium-dependent responses in patients with hypercholesterolemic coronary artery disease under the effects of simvastatin and enalapril, either separately or combined

    Page :684-689

    Ricardo J. Esper, Rogelio Machado, Jorge Vilariño, José L. Cacharrón, Carlos A. Ingino, Carlos A. Garc??a Guiñazú, Eulalio Bereziuk, Alberto L. Bolaño, Daniel H. Suarez

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• • ·Cardiac biochemical markers after cardioversion of atrial fibrillation or atrial flutter

    Page :690-696

    Kjell Vikenes, Per Omvik, Mikael Farstad, Jan Erik Nordrehaug

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• • ·Introduction

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    Christopher B. Granger

    
• • ·Recommendations for national and local regulatory authorities concerning research in genetic markers of disease

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    Christopher B. Granger, Bernard Keavney, Clair Francomano, Gunnar Olsson, Salim Yusuf

    
• • ·Ethical and legal issues in genetic testing to predict risk of heart disease

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    Philip R. Reilly

    
• • ·Genetics of coronary heart disease: Current knowledge and research principles

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    Bernhard R. Winkelmann, Joerg Hager, William E. Kraus, Piera Merlini, Bernard Keavney, Peter J. Grant, Joseph B. Muhlestein, Christopher B. Granger

    
• • ·Genetic approaches for the investigation of genes associated with coronary heart disease

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    William E. Kraus

    
• • ·Genetic analysis for common complex disease

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    Elizabeth R. Hauser, Margaret A. Pericak-Vance

    
• • ·Genetic susceptibility to cardiovascular diseases

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    Allen D. Roses

    
• • ·Genetics, genomics, proteomics: What is a cardiologist to do?

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    Robert M. Califf