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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Editorials

  • ·A call to standardize symptom presentation in acute coronary syndromes

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    John G. Canto, Robert J. Goldberg, George Sopko

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  • ·Invited editorial commentary for American Heart Journal mechanisms of exercise training in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: Central disappointment and peripheral promise

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    Dalane W. Kitzman, Mark J. Haykowsky

    

• Trial Design

  • ·Optimized Duration of Clopidogrel Therapy Following Treatment with the Endeavor Zotarolimus-Eluting Stent in Real-World Clinical Practice (OPTIMIZE) Trial: Rationale and design of a large-scale, randomized, multicenter study

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    Fausto Feres, Ricardo A. Costa, Deepak L. Bhatt, Martin B. Leon, Roberto V. Botelho, Spencer B. King, J. Eduardo T. de Paula, José A. Mangione, Décio Salvadori, Marcos O. Gusmão, Hélio Castello, Eduardo Nicolela, Marco A. Perin, Fernando S. Devito, J. Antônio Marin-Neto, Alexandre Abizaid

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  • ·Design and rationale of the Treatment of Acute Coronary Syndromes with Otamixaban trial: A double-blind triple-dummy 2-stage randomized trial comparing otamixaban to unfractionated heparin and eptifibatide in non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes with a planned early invasive strategy

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    Philippe Gabriel Steg, Shamir R. Mehta, Charles V. Pollack, Christoph Bode, Christophe Gaudin, Karen Fanouillere, Angele Moryusef, Stephen D. Wiviott, Marc S. Sabatine

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  • ·Risk stratification in acute heart failure: Rationale and design of the STRATIFY and DECIDE studies

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    Sean P. Collins, Christopher J. Lindsell, Cathy A. Jenkins, Frank E. Harrell, Gregory J. Fermann, Karen F. Miller, Sue N. Roll, Matthew I. Sperling, David J. Maron, Allen J. Naftilan, John A. McPherson, Neal L. Weintraub, Douglas B. Sawyer, Alan B. Storrow

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• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·A qualitative systematic review of influences on attendance at cardiac rehabilitation programs after referral

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    Alexander M. Clark, Kathryn M. King-Shier, David R. Thompson, Melisa A. Spaling, Amanda S. Duncan, James A. Stone, Susan B. Jaglal, Jan E. Angus

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• Cardiac Safety Research Consortium

  • ·Cardiac imaging approaches to evaluate drug-induced myocardial dysfunction

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    Jennifer B. Christian, John K. Finkle, Bonnie Ky, Pamela S. Douglas, David E. Gutstein, Paul D. Hockings, Pierre Lainee, Daniel J. Lenihan, Jay W. Mason, Philip T. Sager, Thomas G. Todaro, Karen A. Hicks, Robert C. Kane, Hon-Sum Ko, JoAnn Lindenfeld, Eric L. Michelson, James Milligan, Jiefen Y. Munley, Joel S. Raichlen, Amir Shahlaee, Colette Strnadova, Brenda Ye, J. Rick Turner

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Presenting symptoms of myocardial infarction predict short- and long-term mortality: The MONICA/KORA Myocardial Infarction Registry

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    Inge Kirchberger, Margit Heier, Bernhard Kuch, Wolfgang von Scheidt, Christa Meisinger

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  • ·Effect of admission oral diuretic dose on response to continuous versus bolus intravenous diuretics in acute heart failure: An analysis from Diuretic Optimization Strategies in Acute Heart Failure

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    Ravi V. Shah, Steven McNulty, Christopher M. O'Connor, G. Michael Felker, Eugene Braunwald, Michael M. Givertz

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  • ·Cardiovascular effects of 1 year of progressive endurance exercise training in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

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    Naoki Fujimoto, Anand Prasad, Jeffrey L. Hastings, Paul S. Bhella, Shigeki Shibata, Dean Palmer, Benjamin D. Levine

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  • ·The predictive value of galectin-3 for mortality and cardiovascular events in the Controlled Rosuvastatin Multinational Trial in Heart Failure (CORONA)

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    Lars Gullestad, Thor Ueland, John Kjekshus, Ståle H. Nymo, Johannes Hulthe, Pieter Muntendam, John J.V. McMurray, John Wikstrand, Pål Aukrust

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  • ·Atrial fibrillation or flutter on initial electrocardiogram is associated with worse outcomes in patients admitted for worsening heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: Findings from the EVEREST Trial

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    Robert J. Mentz, Matthew J. Chung, Mihai Gheorghiade, Peter S. Pang, Mary J. Kwasny, Andrew P. Ambrosy, Muthiah Vaduganathan, Christopher M. O'Connor, Karl Swedberg, Faiez Zannad, Marvin A. Konstam, Aldo P. Maggioni

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  • ·Testosterone therapy during exercise rehabilitation in male patients with chronic heart failure who have low testosterone status: A double-blind randomized controlled feasibility study

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    Martin Stout, Garry A. Tew, Helen Doll, Irena Zwierska, Nicola Woodroofe, Kevin S. Channer, John M. Saxton

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  • ·Vitamin D reduces left atrial volume in patients with left ventricular hypertrophy and chronic kidney disease

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    Hector Tamez, Carmine Zoccali, David Packham, Julia Wenger, Ishir Bhan, Evan Appelbaum, Yili Pritchett, Yuchiao Chang, Rajiv Agarwal, Christoph Wanner, Donald Lloyd-Jones, Jorge Cannata, B. Taylor Thompson, Dennis Andress, Wuyan Zhang, Bhupinder Singh, Daniel Zehnder, Ajay Pachika, Warren J. Manning, Amil Shah, Scott D. Solomon, Ravi Thadhani

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  • ·Transcatheter vs surgical aortic valve replacement in intermediate-surgical-risk patients with aortic stenosis: A propensity score–matched case-control study

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    Azeem Latib, Francesco Maisano, Letizia Bertoldi, Andrea Giacomini, Joanne Shannon, Micaela Cioni, Alfonso Ielasi, Filippo Figini, Kensuke Tagaki, Annalisa Franco, Remo Daniel Covello, Antonio Grimaldi, Pietro Spagnolo, Gill Louise Buchannan, Mauro Carlino, Alaide Chieffo, Matteo Montorfano, Ottavio Alfieri, Antonio Colombo

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  • ·Incidence, predictors, and outcomes associated with postoperative atrial fibrillation after major noncardiac surgery

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    Prashant D. Bhave, L. Elizabeth Goldman, Eric Vittinghoff, Judith Maselli, Andrew Auerbach

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  • ·Cardiovascular risk assessment: Addition of CKD and race to the Framingham equation

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    Paul E. Drawz, Sarah Baraniuk, Barry R. Davis, Clinton D. Brown, Pedro J. Colon, Aloysius B. Cujyet, Richard A. Dart, James F. Graumlich, Mario A. Henriquez, Jamaluddin Moloo, Mohammed G. Sakalayen, Debra L. Simmons, Carol Stanford, Mary Ellen Sweeney, Nathan D. Wong, Mahboob Rahman

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Pexelizumab fails to inhibit assembly of the terminal complement complex in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention. Insight from a substudy of the Assessment of Pexelizumab in Acute Myocardial Infarction (APEX-AMI) trial

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    Gen-Min Lin, Yi-Hwei Li, Lamin E.S. Jaiteh, Chih-Lu Han

    
  • ·Blocking the terminal complement complex: Mismatch and misconception

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    Pierre Theroux, Catherine Martel, Arnaud Bonnefoy

    
  • ·Letter to the Editor concerning article “Design of the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT)”

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    Edzard Ernst

    
  • ·Reply to letter to the editor by Edzard Ernst

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    Gervasio A. Lamas