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• • ·Effect of age on the use of evidence-based therapies for acute myocardial infarction

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    Chau T.T. Tran, Andreas Laupacis, Muhammad M. Mamdani, Jack V. Tu

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• • ·Hypertension mega-trials with cardiovascular end points: Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers

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    Sverre E. Kjeldsen, Stevo Julius

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• • ·Table of contents

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• • ·Editorial board

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• • ·Information for authors

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• • ·Information for readers

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• • ·Evidence-based decision limits for cardiac troponin: Low-level elevation and prognosis

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    David A. Morrow

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• • ·On the move

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• • ·Expanding indications for natriuretic peptides: Importance of Better New (research) Protocols

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    Ramachandran S. Vasan

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• • ·Magnetic resonance imaging of the peripheral vasculature

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    Eric G. Auerbach, Edward T. Martin

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• • ·Acute Catheterization and Urgent Intervention Triage strategY (ACUITY) trial: Study design and rationale

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    Gregg W. Stone, Michel Bertrand, Antonio Colombo, George Dangas, Michael E. Farkouh, Frederick Feit, Alexandra J. Lansky, A.Michael Lincoff, Roxana Mehran, Jeffrey W. Moses, Magnus Ohman, Harvey D. White

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• • ·Prognostic value of low-level cardiac troponin-I elevations in patients without definite acute coronary syndromes

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    Michael X. Pham, Mary A. Whooley, G.Thomas Evans, Catherine Liu, Homeira Emadi, Winnie Tong, M.Catherine Murphy, Kirsten E. Fleischmann

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• • ·Detection of increased temperature of the culprit lesion after recent myocardial infarction: The favorable effect of statins

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    Konstantinos Toutouzas, Sophia Vaina, Eleftherios Tsiamis, Manolis Vavuranakis, John Mitropoulos, Eirini Bosinakou, Pavlos Toutouzas, Christodoulos Stefanadis

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• • ·Impaired coronary blood flow in patients with metabolic syndrome: Documented by Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) frame count method

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    Hasan Turhan, Ali Riza Erbay, Ayse Saatci Yasar, Asuman Bicer, Hatice Sasmaz, Ertan Yetkin

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• • ·Prognostic value of predischarge electrocardiographic measurement of infarct size after thrombolysis: Insights from GUSTO I Economics and Quality of Life substudy

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    Alejandro Barbagelata, Robert M. Califf, Elena B. Sgarbossa, David Knight, Daniel B. Mark, Christopher B. Granger, Paul W. Armstrong, Marcelo Elizari, Yochai Birnbaum, Liliana R. Grinfeld, E.Magnus Ohman, Galen S. Wagner, GUSTO-1 Investigators

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• • ·Alcohol intake is not associated with subclinical coronary atherosclerosis

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    Jeanne K. Tofferi, Allen J. Taylor, Irwin M. Feuerstein, Patrick G. O'Malley

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• • ·Electrocardiographic findings in cardiogenic shock, risk prediction, and the effects of emergency revascularization: Results from the SHOCK trial

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    Harvey D. White, Sebastian T. Palmeri, Lynn A. Sleeper, John K. French, Cheuk-Kit Wong, April M. Lowe, Julia W. Crapo, Patrick T. Koller, Kenneth W. Baran, Jean L. Boland, Judith S. Hochman, Galen S. Wagner, SHOCK Trial Investigators

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• • ·Oxidized low-density lipoprotein levels circulating in plasma and deposited in the tissues: Comparison between Helicobacter pylori-associated gastritis and acute myocardial infarction

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    Soichiro Kayo, Masahiko Ohsawa, Shoichi Ehara, Takahiko Naruko, Yoshihiro Ikura, Eishu Hai, Noriko Yoshimi, Nobuyuki Shirai, Yoshiaki Tsukamoto, Hiroyuki Itabe, Kazuhide Higuchi, Tetsuo Arakawa, Makiko Ueda

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• • ·High-grade infarct-related stenosis after successful thrombolysis: Strong predictor of reocclusion, but not of clinical reinfarction

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    Peter C. Kievit, Marc A. Brouwer, Gerrit Veen, Aart J. Karreman, Freek W.A. Verheugt

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• • ·Color of culprit lesion at 6 months after plain old balloon angioplasty versus stenting in patients with acute myocardial infarction

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    Yasunori Ueda, Tomohito Ohtani, Masahiko Shimizu, Isamu Mizote, Jota Ohyabu, Atsushi Hirayama, Kazuhisa Kodama

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• • ·Endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene polymorphism and ischemic heart disease

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    Mark S. Spence, Paul G. McGlinchey, Chris C. Patterson, Adrian R. Allen, Gillian Murphy, Ulvi Bayraktutan, Damian G. Fogarty, Alun E. Evans, Pascal P. McKeown

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• • ·Sex-related differences in outcome after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction treated by primary angioplasty: Data from the Zwolle Myocardial Infarction study

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    Giuseppe De Luca, Harry Suryapranata, Jan-Henk Dambrink, Jan Paul Ottervanger, Arnoud W.J. van't Hof, Felix Zijlstra, Jan C.A. Hoorntje, A.T.Marcel Gosselink, Menko-Jan de Boer

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• • ·Rapamycin-eluting stents for the treatment of bifurcated coronary lesions: A randomized comparison of a simple versus complex strategy

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    Manuel Pan, José Suárez de Lezo, Alfonso Medina, Miguel Romero, José Segura, Djordje Pavlovic, Antonio Delgado, Soledad Ojeda, Francisco Melián, Juan Herrador, Isabel Ureña, Luis Burgos

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• • ·Regression of significant tricuspid regurgitation after mitral balloon valvotomy for severe mitral stenosis

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    Hwaida Hannoush, Mohamed Eid Fawzy, Miltiadis Stefadouros, Mohamed Moursi, Mohammad A. Chaudhary, Bruce Dunn

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• • ·Underlying risk factors incrementally add to the standard risk estimate in detecting subclinical atherosclerosis in low- and intermediate-risk middle-aged asymptomatic individuals

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    Milind Y. Desai, Khurram Nasir, Joel B. Braunstein, John A. Rumberger, Wendy S. Post, Matthew J. Budoff, Roger S. Blumenthal

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• • ·Impact of short-term intermittent intravenous dobutamine therapy on endothelial function in patients with severe chronic heart failure

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    Dov Freimark, Micha S. Feinberg, Shlomi Matezky, Naomi Hochberg, Michael Shechter

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• • ·Effects of diabetes mellitus and ischemic heart disease on the progression from asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction to symptomatic heart failure: A retrospective analysis from the Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD) Prevention Trial

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    Sandeep R. Das, Mark H. Drazner, Clyde W. Yancy, Lynne W. Stevenson, Bernard J. Gersh, Daniel L. Dries

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• • ·Impact of angiotensin-converting enzyme gene polymorphism on neurohormonal responses to high- versus low-dose enalapril in advanced heart failure

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    W.H.Wilson Tang, Randall H. Vagelos, Yin-Gail Yee, Michael B. Fowler

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• • ·Utility of B-natriuretic peptide in the evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function: Comparison with tissue Doppler imaging recordings

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    Gary S. Mak, Anthony DeMaria, Paul Clopton, Alan S. Maisel

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• • ·Systole-diastole mismatch in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is caused by stress induced left ventricular outflow tract obstruction

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    Waleed Arshad, Alison M. Duncan, Darrel P. Francis, Christine A. O'Sullivan, Derek G. Gibson, Michael Y. Henein

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• • ·Predicting maximum heart rate among patients with coronary heart disease receiving β-adrenergic blockade therapy

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    Clinton A. Brawner, Jonathan K. Ehrman, John R. Schairer, Jie J. Cao, Steven J. Keteyian

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• • ·Association between chronic heart failure and inhaled β-2-adrenoceptor agonists

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    David H. Au, Edmunds M. Udris, J.Randall Curtis, Mary B. McDonell, Stephan D. Fihn, ACQUIP Investigators

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• • ·Effect of nesiritide (human b-type natriuretic peptide) and dobutamine on heart rate variability in decompensated heart failure

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    Doron Aronson, Andrew J. Burger

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• • ·Left atrial thrombi, transient ischemic attacks, and atrial fibrillation

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    Claudia Stöllberger, Josef Finsterer

    
• • ·Regarding: Right ventricular cardiac dysfunction in HIV-infected patients studied with radionuclide ventriculography

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    Giuseppe Barbaro

    
• • ·Letter

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    Mathias H. Aazami

    
• • ·Sex-based selection of a method to relieve obstruction in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: A hypothesis or more?

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    Paweł Petkow Dimitrow

    
• • ·Regarding: Statin use is associated with enhanced collateralization of severely diseased coronary arteries

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    Stephan Zbinden, Christian Seiler

    
• • ·Effect of obesity on risks after coronary artery bypass grafting

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    Suat Canbaz, Turan Ege, Umit Halici, Enver Duran

    
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    Joseph Kim, Niklas Hammar, Kristina Jakobsson, Russell V. Luepker, Paul G. McGovern, Torbjörn Ivert