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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Editorial

  • ·Has American Heart Journal gone to the blogs?

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    Daniel B. Mark

    

• Results of Expert Meetings

  • ·Phase III clinical trial end points in acute heart failure syndromes: A virtual roundtable with the acute heart failure syndromes international working group

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    Mihai Gheorghiade, Kirkwood F. Adams, John G.F. Cleland, Gad Cotter, G. Michael Felker, Gerasimos S. Filippatos, Gregg C. Fonarow, Barry H. Greenberg, Adrian F. Hernandez, Sadiya Khan, Michel Komajda, Marvin A. Konstam, Peter P. Liu, Aldo P. Maggioni, Barry M. Massie, John J. McMurray, Mandeep Mehra, Marco Metra, John O'Connell, Christopher M. O'Connor, Peter S. Pang, Ileana L. Piña, Hani N. Sabbah, John R. Teerlink, James E. Udelson, Clyde W. Yancy, Faiez Zannad, Norman Stockbridge, Acute Heart Failure Syndromes International Working Group

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• Trial Design

  • ·Regulatory and ethical considerations for linking clinical and administrative databases

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    Rachel S. Dokholyan, Lawrence H. Muhlbaier, John M. Falletta, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, David Shahian, Constance K. Haan, Eric D. Peterson

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  • ·Registry of Atrial Tachycardia and Atrial Fibrillation Episodes in the cardiac rhythm management device population: The RATE Registry Design

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    The RATE Steering Committee, for the RATE Investigators 1

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Adding socioeconomic status to Framingham scoring to reduce disparities in coronary risk assessment

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    Kevin Fiscella, Daniel Tancredi, Peter Franks

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  • ·Linking inpatient clinical registry data to Medicare claims data using indirect identifiers

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    Bradley G. Hammill, Adrian F. Hernandez, Eric D. Peterson, Gregg C. Fonarow, Kevin A. Schulman, Lesley H. Curtis

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  • ·Evaluation of coronary artery calcium screening strategies focused on risk categories: The Dallas Heart Study

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    Mahesh J. Patel, James A. de Lemos, Darren K. McGuire, Raphael See, Jason B. Lindsey, Sabina A. Murphy, Scott M. Grundy, Amit Khera

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  • ·Influence of age on the management of heart failure: Findings from Get With the Guidelines–Heart Failure (GWTG-HF)

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    Daniel E. Forman, Christopher P. Cannon, Adrian F. Hernandez, Li Liang, Clyde Yancy, Gregg C. Fonarow, for the Get With the Guidelines Steering Committee and Hospitals

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  • ·Influence of coronary angiography on the utilization of therapies in patients with acute heart failure syndromes: Findings from Organized Program to Initiate Lifesaving Treatment in Hospitalized Patients with Heart Failure (OPTIMIZE-HF)

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    James D. Flaherty, Joseph S. Rossi, Gregg C. Fonarow, Eduardo Nunez, Wendy Gattis Stough, William T. Abraham, Nancy M. Albert, Barry H. Greenberg, Christopher M. O'Connor, Clyde W. Yancy, James B. Young, Charles J. Davidson, Mihai Gheorghiade

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  • ·Effect of pulmonary hypertension on clinical outcomes in advanced heart failure: Analysis of the Evaluation Study of Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Artery Catheterization Effectiveness (ESCAPE) database

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    Kiran K. Khush, Gudaye Tasissa, Javed Butler, Dana McGlothlin, Teresa De Marco, for the ESCAPE Investigators

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  • ·Effects of istaroxime on diastolic stiffness in acute heart failure syndromes: Results from the Hemodynamic, Echocardiographic, and Neurohormonal Effects of Istaroxime, a Novel Intravenous Inotropic and Lusitropic Agent: a Randomized Controlled Trial in Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure (HORIZON-HF) trial

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    Sanjiv J. Shah, John E.A. Blair, Gerasimos S. Filippatos, Cezar Macarie, Witold Ruzyllo, Jerzy Korewicki, Serban I. Bubenek-Turconi, Maurizio Ceracchi, Maria Bianchetti, Paolo Carminati, Dimitrios Kremastinos, Jacek Grzybowski, Giovanni Valentini, Hani N. Sabbah, Mihai Gheorghiade, for the HORIZON-HF Investigators

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  • ·The impact of dyspnea on health-related quality of life in patients with coronary artery disease: Results from the PREMIER registry

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    Suzanne V. Arnold, John A. Spertus, Philip G. Jones, Lan Xiao, David J. Cohen

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  • ·Comparison of the intracoronary continuous infusion method using a microcatheter and the intravenous continuous adenosine infusion method for inducing maximal hyperemia for fractional flow reserve measurement

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    Myeong-Ho Yoon, Seung-Jea Tahk, Hyoung-Mo Yang, Jin-Sun Park, Mingri Zheng, Hong-Seok Lim, Byoung-Joo Choi, So-Yeon Choi, Un-Jung Choi, Joung-Won Hwang, Soo-Jin Kang, Gyo-Seung Hwang, Joon-Han Shin

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  • ·Anemia: An independent predictor of death and hospitalizations among elderly patients with atrial fibrillation

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    Shivak Sharma, Brian F. Gage, Elena Deych, Michael W. Rich

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  • ·Cost-effectiveness of warfarin: Trial versus “real-world” stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation

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    Sonja V. Sorensen, Sarah Dewilde, Daniel E. Singer, Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Brigitta U. Monz, Jonathan M. Plumb

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  • ·Incidence of early left ventricular thrombus after acute anterior wall myocardial infarction in the primary coronary intervention era

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    Azriel B. Osherov, Michal Borovik-Raz, Doron Aronson, Yoram Agmon, Michael Kapeliovich, Arthur Kerner, Ehud Grenadier, Haim Hammerman, Eugenia Nikolsky, Ariel Roguin

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  • ·Diet and incident venous thromboembolism: The Iowa Women's Health Study

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    Pamela L. Lutsey, Lyn M. Steffen, Beth A. Virnig, Aaron R. Folsom

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  • ·Left ventricular remodeling after acute myocardial infarction: Does eplerenone have an effect?

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    Robin A.P. Weir, Patrick B. Mark, Colin J. Petrie, Suzanne Clements, Tracey Steedman, Ian Ford, Leong L. Ng, Iain B. Squire, Galen S. Wagner, John J.V. McMurray, Henry J. Dargie

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  • ·Validity of a risk-prediction tool for hospital mortality: The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events

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    Karen S. Pieper, Joel M. Gore, Gordon FitzGerald, Christopher B. Granger, Robert J. Goldberg, Gabriel Steg, Kim A. Eagle, Frederick A. Anderson, Andrzej Budaj, Keith A.A. Fox, for the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) Investigators

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Proton pump inhibitors and clopidogrel: A difficult dilemma

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    Jochem W. van Werkum, Jurriën M. ten Berg, Albert J. Bredenoord

    
  • ·Response to Letter by van Werkum: Proton pump inhibitors and clopidogrel: a difficult dilemma

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    Jolanta M. Siller-Matula, Bernd Jilma