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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Authors

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·Review of the 2005 American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, and Society for Cardiovascular Interventions guidelines for adjunctive pharmacologic therapy during percutaneous coronary interventions: Practical implications, new clinical data, and recommended guideline revisions

    Page :781-790

    Peter J. Casterella, James E. Tcheng

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  • ·Renin angiotensin system blockade and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease and proteinuria: A meta-analysis

    Page :791-805

    Saravanan Balamuthusamy, Lavanya Srinivasan, Meenakshi Verma, Sasikanth Adigopula, Nishant Jalandara, Suresh Hathiwala, Earl Smith

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  • ·Routine hematologic clinical tests as prognostic markers in patients with acute coronary syndromes

    Page :806-816

    Samuel J. Turner, Terry R. Ketch, Sanjay K. Gandhi, David C. Sane

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• Trial Design

  • ·Effects of erythropoietin after an acute myocardial infarction: Rationale and study design of a prospective, randomized, clinical trial (HEBE III)

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    Anne M. Belonje, Adriaan A. Voors, Wiek H. van Gilst, Stefan D. Anker, Riemer H. Slart, Rene A. Tio, Felix Zijlstra, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen, on behalf of the HEBE III investigators

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  • ·The genetic response to short-term interventions affecting cardiovascular function: Rationale and design of the Heredity and Phenotype Intervention (HAPI) Heart Study

    Page :823-828

    Braxton D. Mitchell, Patrick F. McArdle, Haiqing Shen, Evadnie Rampersaud, Toni I. Pollin, Lawrence F. Bielak, Cashell Jaquish, Julie A. Douglas, Marie-Hélène Roy-Gagnon, Paul Sack, Rosalie Naglieri, Scott Hines, Richard B. Horenstein, Yen-Pei C. Chang, Wendy Post, Kathleen A. Ryan, Nga Hong Brereton, Ruth E. Pakyz, John Sorkin, Coleen M. Damcott, Jeffrey R. O'Connell, Charles Mangano, Mary Corretti, Robert Vogel, William Herzog, Matthew R. Weir, Patricia A. Peyser, Alan R. Shuldiner

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• Results of Expert Meetings

  • ·Antithrombotic drug development for atrial fibrillation: Proceedings, Washington, DC, July 25-27, 2005

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    Kevin Jackson, Bernard J. Gersh, Norman Stockbridge, Thomas R. Fleming, Robert Temple, Robert M. Califf, Stuart J. Connolly, Lars Wallentin, Christopher B. Granger, Participants in the Duke Clinical Research Institute/American Heart Journal Expert Meeting on Antithrombotic Drug Development for Atrial Fibrillation

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Coronary artery bypass surgery in patients with acute coronary syndromes is difficult to predict

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    Derek P. Chew, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Harvey D. White, Zhen Huang, James W. Hoekstra, James J. Ferguson, Robert M. Califf, Philip E. Aylward

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  • ·Transient ST-elevation myocardial infarction: Clinical course with intense medical therapy and early invasive approach, and comparison with persistent ST-elevation myocardial infarction

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    Simcha R. Meisel, Yasmin Dagan, David S. Blondheim, Samir Dacca, Michael Shochat, Mark Kazatsker, Aya Asif, Aaron Frimerman, Avraham Shotan

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  • ·The influence of age on health status outcomes after acute myocardial infarction

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    P. Michael Ho, Marvin H. Eng, John S. Rumsfeld, John A. Spertus, Pamela N. Peterson, Philip G. Jones, Eric D. Peterson, Karen P. Alexander, Edward P. Havranek, Harlan M. Krumholz, Frederick A. Masoudi

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  • ·Gender disparity in cardiac procedures and medication use for acute myocardial infarction

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    John T. Nguyen, Alan K. Berger, Sue Duval, Russell V. Luepker

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  • ·Differential effects of lipids on the risk of heart failure and coronary heart disease: The Physicians' Health Study

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    Ravi Dhingra, Howard D. Sesso, Satish Kenchaiah, J. Michael Gaziano

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  • ·Blacks and whites have a similar prevalence of reduced left ventricular ejection fraction in the general population: The Dallas Heart Study (DHS)

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    David W. Markham, Daniel L. Dries, Louise P. King, David Leonard, Clyde W. Yancy, Ronald M. Peshock, DuWayne Willett, Richard S. Cooper, Mark H. Drazner

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  • ·Albumin levels predict survival in patients with systolic heart failure

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    Tamara B. Horwich, Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, Robb W. MacLellan, Gregg C. Fonarow

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  • ·Effect of rapamycin therapy on coronary artery physiology early after cardiac transplantation

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    Seema S. Sinha, Michael X. Pham, Randall H. Vagelos, Mark G. Perlroth, Sharon A. Hunt, David P. Lee, Hannah A. Valantine, Alan C. Yeung, William F. Fearon

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  • ·Optimal heart failure therapy and successful cardioversion in heart failure patients with atrial fibrillation

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    Leif-Hendrik Boldt, Sascha Rolf, Martin Huemer, Abdul Shokor Parwani, Friedrich C. Luft, Rainer Dietz, Wilhelm Haverkamp

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  • ·Temporal trends in permanent pacemaker implantation: A population-based study

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    Daniel Z. Uslan, Imad M. Tleyjeh, Larry M. Baddour, Paul A. Friedman, Sarah M. Jenkins, Jennifer L. St Sauver, David L. Hayes

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  • ·The economic consequences of non–evidence-based clopidogrel use

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    Niteesh K. Choudhry, Raisa Levin, Jerry Avorn

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  • ·Efficacy and safety of clopidogrel pretreatment before percutaneous coronary intervention with and without glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor use

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    Marc S. Sabatine, Hussam N. Hamdalla, Shamir R. Mehta, Keith A.A. Fox, Eric J. Topol, Steven R. Steinhubl, Christopher P. Cannon

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  • ·Computed tomographic coronary angiographic assessment of high-risk coronary anatomy in patients with suspected coronary artery disease and intermediate pretest probability

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    Tej Sheth, Shoaib Amlani, Mary Lou Ellins, Shamir Mehta, James Velianou, Gail Cappelli, Sean Yang, Madhu Natarajan

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  • ·Derivation and validation of a diagnostic model for the evaluation of left ventricular filling pressures and diastolic function using mitral annulus tissue Doppler imaging

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    Roque B. Arteaga, Haitham Hreybe, Dineshkumar Patel, Carolyn Landolfo

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  • ·Hypertensive response with exercise does not increase the prevalence of abnormal Tc-99m SPECT Stress Perfusion Images

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    Garvan C. Kane, John W. Askew, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, Todd D. Miller, Raymond J. Gibbons

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  • ·Simple adaptation of current abdominal aortic aneurysm screening programs may address all-cause cardiovascular mortality : Prospective observational cohort study

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    Deirdre F. Waterhouse, Ronan A. Cahill

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  • ·How accurately, reproducibly, and efficiently can we measure left ventricular indices using M-mode, 2-dimensional, and 3-dimensional echocardiography in children?

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    Xiuzhang Lu, Mingxing Xie, David Tomberlin, Berthold Klas, Vyacheslav Nadvoretskiy, Nancy Ayres, Jeffrey Towbin, Shuping Ge

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  • ·High-dose atorvastatin does not negatively influence clinical outcomes among clopidogrel treated acute coronary syndrome patients—A Pravastatin or Atorvastatin Evaluation and Infection Therapy–Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction 22 (PROVE IT–TIMI 22) analysis

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    Amir Lotfi, Marc J. Schweiger, Gregory R. Giugliano, Sabina A. Murphy, Christopher P. Cannon, on behalf of the TIMI 22 Investigators

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  • ·Left ventricular remodeling is associated with the severity of mitral regurgitation after inaugural anterior myocardial infarction—Optimal timing for echocardiographic imaging

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    Pierre V. Ennezat, Julie Darchis, Nicolas Lamblin, Olivier Tricot, Mariam Elkohen, Valérie Aumégeat, Octave Equine, Xavier Dujardin, Hassan Saadouni, Thierry Le Tourneau, Pascal de Groote, Christophe Bauters, on behalf of The REVE Investigators

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