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• • ·Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Editorials

  • ·Learning from history: A commentary on the American Heart Association Science Advisory on depression screening

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    Brett D. Thombs, Lisa R. Jewett, Ruby Knafo, James C. Coyne, Roy C. Ziegelstein

    
  • ·The high cost of nonadherence after percutaneous coronary intervention—Can health care reform solve this problem?

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    Debabrata Mukherjee

    

• Trial Design

  • ·Rationale and design of China intensive lipid lowering with statins in acute coronary syndrome: The CHILLAS study

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    Shui-ping Zhao, Dao-quan Peng, Bi-lian Yu, Yong Huo, the CHILLAS investigators c

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  • ·Design of the DEFINE trial: Determining the EFficacy and Tolerability of CETP INhibition with AnacEtrapib

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    Christopher P. Cannon, Hayes M. Dansky, Michael Davidson, Antonio M. Gotto, Eliot A. Brinton, A. Lawrence Gould, Michael Stepanavage, Sherry Xueyu Liu, Sukrut Shah, Joseph Rubino, Patrice Gibbons, Anne Hermanowski-Vosatka, Bruce Binkowitz, Yale Mitchel, Philip Barter, for the DEFINE investigators 1

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  • ·SPIRIT IV trial design: A large-scale randomized comparison of everolimus-eluting stents and paclitaxel-eluting stents in patients with coronary artery disease

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    Eugenia Nikolsky, Alexandra J. Lansky, Krishnankutty Sudhir, Julie Doostzadeh, Donald E. Cutlip, Robert Piana, Xiaolu Su, Roseann White, Charles A. Simonton, Gregg W. Stone

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  • ·Design and rationale of the TRI-stent Adjudication Study (TRIAS) Program

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    Margo Klomp, Marcel A.M. Beijk, Niels J.W. Verouden, Jan G.P. Tijssen, Robbert J. de Winter, on behalf of all TRIAS Investigators a

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  • ·The Family Atherosclerosis Monitoring In earLY life (FAMILY) study : Rationale, design, and baseline data of a study examining the early determinants of atherosclerosis

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    Katherine M. Morrison, Stephanie A. Atkinson, Salim Yusuf, Jacqueline Bourgeois, Sarah McDonald, Matthew J. McQueen, Richard Persadie, Barry Hunter, Janice Pogue, Koon Teo, the FAMILY investigators

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Differential effects of afterload on left ventricular long- and short-axis function: Insights from a clinical model of patients with aortic valve stenosis undergoing aortic valve replacement

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    Shemy Carasso, Oved Cohen, Diab Mutlak, Zvi Adler, Jonathan Lessick, Shimon A. Reisner, Harry Rakowski, Gil Bolotin, Yoram Agmon

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  • ·Hospital performance recognition with the Get With The Guidelines Program and mortality for acute myocardial infarction and heart failure

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    Paul A. Heidenreich, William R. Lewis, Kenneth A. LaBresh, Lee H. Schwamm, Gregg C. Fonarow

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  • ·Cardiovascular events with absent or minimal coronary calcification: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

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    Matthew J. Budoff, Robyn L. McClelland, Khurram Nasir, Philip Greenland, Richard A. Kronmal, George T. Kondos, Steven Shea, Joao A.C. Lima, Roger S. Blumenthal

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  • ·Association of aortic valve calcification to the presence, extent, and composition of coronary artery plaque burden: From the Rule Out Myocardial Infarction using Computer Assisted Tomography (ROMICAT) trial

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    Amir A. Mahabadi, Fabian Bamberg, Michael Toepker, Christopher L. Schlett, Ian S. Rogers, John T. Nagurney, Thomas J. Brady, Udo Hoffmann, Quynh A. Truong

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  • ·Early abciximab administration before transfer for primary percutaneous coronary interventions for ST-elevation myocardial infarction reduces 1-year mortality in patients with high-risk profile. Results from EUROTRANSFER Registry

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    Tomasz Rakowski, Zbigniew Siudak, Artur Dziewierz, Ralf Birkemeyer, Jacek Legutko, Waldemar Mielecki, Rafal Depukat, Magnus Janzon, Justyna Stefaniak, Krzysztof Zmudka, Jacek S. Dubiel, Lukasz Partyka, Dariusz Dudek

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  • ·Drug-eluting stents: A study of international practice

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    David Austin, Keith G. Oldroyd, David R. Holmes, Charanjit S. Rihal, P. Diane Galbraith, William A. Ghali, Victor Legrand, Yves Taeymans, Alex McConnachie, Jill P. Pell, on behalf of the APPROACH Investigators, Belgian Working Group on Invasive Cardiology, Mayo Clinic PCI Registry, and Scottish Coronary Revascularisation Registry

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  • ·Timing of clopidogrel loading before percutaneous coronary intervention in clopidogrel-naive patients with stable or unstable angina: A comparison of two strategies

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    Periklis A. Davlouros, Aggelos Arseniou, George Hahalis, John Chiladakis, Andreas Mazarakis, Anastasia Damelou, Marina Karakantza, Fotini Paliogianni, Nikolaos Karogiannis, Dimitrios Alexopoulos

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  • ·Patterns of use of thienopyridine therapy after percutaneous coronary interventions with drug-eluting stents and bare-metal stents

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    Dennis T. Ko, Maria Chiu, Helen Guo, Peter C. Austin, Jean-François Marquis, Jack V. Tu

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  • ·Benefits of drug-eluting stents as compared to bare metal stent in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: Four year results of the PaclitAxel or Sirolimus-Eluting stent vs bare metal stent in primary angiOplasty (PASEO) randomized trial

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    Emilio Di Lorenzo, Rosario Sauro, Attilio Varricchio, Michele Capasso, Tonino Lanzillo, Fiore Manganelli, Ciro Mariello, Francesco Siano, Maria Rosaria Pagliuca, Giovanni Stanco, Giuseppe Rosato, Giuseppe De Luca

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  • ·Practice patterns, outcomes, and end-organ dysfunction for patients with acute severe hypertension: The Studying the Treatment of Acute hyperTension (STAT) Registry

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    Jason N. Katz, Joel M. Gore, Alpesh Amin, Frederick A. Anderson, Joseph F. Dasta, James J. Ferguson, Kurt Kleinschmidt, Stephan A. Mayer, Alan S. Multz, W. Frank Peacock, Eric Peterson, Charles Pollack, Gene Yong Sung, Andrew Shorr, Joseph Varon, Allison Wyman, Leigh A. Emery, Christopher B. Granger, on behalf of the STAT Investigators 1

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  • ·Cardiac amyloidosis in African Americans: Comparison of clinical and laboratory features of transthyretin V122I amyloidosis and immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis

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    Lawreen H. Connors, Tatiana Prokaeva, Amareth Lim, Roger Théberge, Rodney H. Falk, Gheorghe Doros, Alan Berg, Catherine E. Costello, Carl O'Hara, David C. Seldin, Martha Skinner

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  • ·Insertion/deletion polymorphism in ?₂-adrenergic receptor gene is a genetic risk factor for sudden cardiac death

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    Jari A. Laukkanen, Timo H. Mäkikallio, Jussi Kauhanen, Sudhir Kurl

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  • ·Electrocardiographic predictors of atrial fibrillation

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    Marco V. Perez, Frederick E. Dewey, Rachel Marcus, Euan A. Ashley, Amin A. Al-Ahmad, Paul J. Wang, Victor F. Froelicher

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  • ·Close bidirectional relationship between chronic kidney disease and atrial fibrillation: The Niigata preventive medicine study

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    Hiroshi Watanabe, Toru Watanabe, Shigeru Sasaki, Kojiro Nagai, Dan M. Roden, Yoshifusa Aizawa

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  • ·Drug-eluting versus bare-metal stents for treating saphenous vein grafts

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    Mehdi H. Shishehbor, Riem Hawi, Inder M. Singh, E. Murat Tuzcu, Deepak L. Bhatt, Stephen G. Ellis, Samir R. Kapadia

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  • ·Characteristics and in-hospital outcomes for nonadherent patients with heart failure: Findings from Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure (GWTG-HF)

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    Amrut V. Ambardekar, Gregg C. Fonarow, Adrian F. Hernandez, Wenqin Pan, Clyde W. Yancy, Mori J. Krantz, for the Get With the Guidelines Steering Committee and Hospitals

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  • ·Blood transfusion for acute decompensated heart failure—friend or foe?

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    Moshe Garty, Eytan Cohen, Alexander Zuchenko, Solomon Behar, Valentina Boyko, Zaza Iakobishvili, Moshe Mittelman, Alexander Battler, Avraham Shotan, Shmuel Gottlieb, Avraham Caspi, David Hasdai, for the Heart Failure Survey in ISrael (HFSIS) Investigators

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  • ·Red cell distribution width in heart failure: Prediction of clinical events and relationship with markers of ineffective erythropoiesis, inflammation, renal function, and nutritional state

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    Zsolt Förhécz, Tímea Gombos, Gábor Borgulya, Zoltán Pozsonyi, Zoltán Prohászka, Lívia Jánoskuti

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  • ·Correction

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  • ·Coffee consumption and risk of heart failure in men: An analysis from the Cohort of Swedish Men

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    Hanna N. Ahmed, Emily B. Levitan, Alicja Wolk, Murray A. Mittleman

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  • ·Prevalence and prognostic significance of incidental cardiac troponin T elevation in ambulatory patients with stable coronary artery disease: Data from The Heart and Soul Study

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    Bill P.C. Hsieh, Adam M. Rogers, Beeya Na, Alan H.B. Wu, Nelson B. Schiller, Mary A. Whooley

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  • ·Treatment of stable angina pectoris by ivabradine in every day practice: The REDUCTION Study

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    Ralf Köster, Jan Kaehler, Thomas Meinertz, for the REDUCTION Study Group

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  • ·Predictors of 30-day mortality in patients with refractory cardiogenic shock following acute myocardial infarction despite a patent infarct artery

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    Jason N. Katz, Amanda L. Stebbins, John H. Alexander, Harmony R. Reynolds, Karen S. Pieper, Witold Ruzyllo, Karl Werdan, Alexander Geppert, Vladimir Dzavik, Frans Van de Werf, Judith S. Hochman, for the TRIUMPH Investigators

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  • ·Characterization and outcomes of women and men with non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and nonobstructive coronary artery disease: Results from the Can Rapid Risk Stratification of Unstable Angina Patients Suppress Adverse Outcomes with Early Implementation of the ACC/AHA Guidelines (CRUSADE) Quality Improvement Initiative

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    Erika R. Gehrie, Harmony R. Reynolds, Anita Y. Chen, Brian H. Neelon, Matthew T. Roe, W. Brian Gibler, E. Magnus Ohman, L. Kristin Newby, Eric D. Peterson, Judith S. Hochman

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• Letter to the Editor

  • ·Are we sure we have taken the best from clopidogrel?

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    Bernardo Cortese, Andrea Picchi, Andrea Micheli, Ugo Limbruno