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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

  • ·Does fitness completely explain the obesity paradox?

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    Carl J. Lavie, Alban De Schutter, Dharmendrakumar A. Patel, Richard V. Milani

     

• Trial Design

  • ·Rationale and design of the Primary pREvention strategies at the community level to Promote Adherence of treatments to pREvent cardiovascular diseases trial number (CTRI/2012/09/002981)

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    Farah N. Fathima, Rajnish Joshi, Twinkle Agrawal, Shailendra Hegde, Denis Xavier, Dominic Misquith, N. Chidambaram, S.P. Kalantri, Clara Chow, Shofiqul Islam, P.J. Devereaux, Rajeev Gupta, Prem Pais, Salim Yusuf

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  • ·Rationale and design of the COlchicine for Prevention of the Post-pericardiotomy Syndrome and Post-operative Atrial Fibrillation (COPPS-2 trial): A randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter study on the use of colchicine for the primary prevention of the postpericardiotomy syndrome, postoperative effusions, and postoperative atrial fibrillation

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    Massimo Imazio, Riccardo Belli, Antonio Brucato, Paolo Ferrazzi, Davide Patrini, Luigi Martinelli, Vincenzo Polizzi, Roberto Cemin, Anna Leggieri, Alida L.P. Caforio, Yaron Finkelstein, Brian Hoit, Bernhard Maisch, Bongani M. Mayosi, Jae K. Oh, Arsen D. Ristic, Petar Seferovic, David H. Spodick, Yehuda Adler

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• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·Effect of atrioventricular and ventriculoventricular delay optimization on clinical and echocardiographic outcomes of patients treated with cardiac resynchronization therapy: A meta-analysis

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    Dominique Auger, Ulas Hoke, Jeroen J. Bax, Eric Boersma, Victoria Delgado

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Comparison of the performances of cardiac troponins, including sensitive assays, and copeptin in the diagnostic of acute myocardial infarction and long-term prognosis between women and men

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    Cathrin Balmelli, Christophe Meune, Raphael Twerenbold, Tobias Reichlin, Simone Rieder, Beatrice Drexler, Maria Gimenez Rubini, Tamina Mosimann, Miriam Reiter, Philip Haaf, Mira Mueller, Susanne Ernst, Paola Ballarino, Azza A. Alafify, Christa Zellweger, Karin Wildi, Berit Moehring, Carles Vilaplana, Denise Bernhard, Salome Merk, Stefan Ebmeyer, Heike Freidank, Stefan Osswald, Christian Mueller

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  • ·Sex differences in clinical outcomes in patients with stable angina and no obstructive coronary artery disease

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    Tara L. Sedlak, May Lee, Mona Izadnegahdar, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Min Gao, Karin H. Humphries

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  • ·Gender differences in cardiovascular mortality by C-reactive protein level in the United States: Evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III

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    Bethany Doran, Wenyi Zhu, Peter Muennig

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  • ·Reporting and representation of ethnic minorities in cardiovascular trials: A systematic review

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    Tony Zhang, Wendy Tsang, Harindra C. Wijeysundera, Dennis T. Ko

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  • ·Canada Acute Coronary Syndrome Risk Score: A new risk score for early prognostication in acute coronary syndromes

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    Thao Huynh, Simon Kouz, Andrew Yan, Nicolas Danchin, Jennifer O. Loughlin, Erick Schampaert, Raymond Yan, Stephane Rinfret, Jean-Claude Tardif, Mark J. Eisenberg, Marc Afilalo, Alice Chong, Jean-Pierre Dery, Michel Nguyen, Claude Lauzon, Samer Mansour, Dennis T. Ko, Jack V. Tu, Shaun Goodman

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  • ·Infarct size and mortality in patients with proximal versus mid left anterior descending artery occlusion: The Intracoronary Abciximab and Aspiration Thrombectomy in Patients With Large Anterior Myocardial Infarction (INFUSE-AMI) trial

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    Sorin J. Brener, Bernhard Witzenbichler, Akiko Maehara, Joe Dizon, Martin Fahy, Magdi El-Omar, Jan-Henk Dambrink, Philippe Genereux, Roxana Mehran, Keith Oldroyd, Helen Parise, C. Michael Gibson, Gregg W. Stone

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  • ·Sleeping altitude and sudden cardiac death

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    Monica Y. Lo, James D. Daniels, Benjamin D. Levine, Martin Burtscher

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  • ·Heart failure performance measures: Eligibility and implementation in the community

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    Cecilia Berardi, Alanna M. Chamberlain, Francesca Bursi, Margaret M. Redfield, Sheila M. McNallan, Susan A. Weston, Ruoxiang Jiang, Véronique L. Roger

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  • ·Tissue coverage and neointimal hyperplasia in overlap versus nonoverlap segments of drug-eluting stents 9 to 13 months after implantation: In vivo assessment with optical coherence tomography

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    Juan Luis Gutiérrez-Chico, Lorenz Räber, Evelyn Regar, Takayuki Okamura, Carlo di Mario, Gerrit-Anne van Es, Stephan Windecker, Patrick W. Serruys

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  • ·Relation between the vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein phosphorylation assay and light transmittance aggregometry in East Asian patients after high-dose clopidogrel loading

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    In-Suk Kim, Young-Hoon Jeong, Udaya S. Tantry, Yongwhi Park, Dong-Hyun Lee, Kevin P. Bliden, Jin-Sin Koh, Jeong Rang Park, Jae-Sik Jang, Seok-Jae Hwang, Eun-Ha Koh, Choong Hwan Kwak, Jin-Yong Hwang, Sunjoo Kim, Paul A. Gurbel

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  • ·Red cell distribution width as a bleeding predictor after percutaneous coronary intervention

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    Omid Fatemi, Rebecca Torguson, Fang Chen, Soha Ahmad, Salem Badr, Lowell F. Satler, Augusto D. Pichard, Neal S. Kleiman, Ron Waksman

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  • ·Long-term clinical outcome after fractional flow reserve– versus angio-guided percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with intermediate stenosis of coronary artery bypass grafts

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    Luigi Di Serafino, Bernard De Bruyne, Fabio Mangiacapra, Jozef Bartunek, Pierfrancesco Agostoni, Marc Vanderheyden, Gabriella Scognamiglio, Guy R. Heyndrickx, William Wijns, Emanuele Barbato

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  • ·Everolimus-eluting stent versus bare metal stent in proximal left anterior descending ST-elevation myocardial infarction : Insights from the EXAMINATION trial

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    Josep Gomez-Lara, Salvatore Brugaletta, Joan-Antoni Gomez-Hospital, Jose Luis Ferreiro, Gerard Roura, Rafael Romaguera, Victoria Martin-Yuste, Monica Masotti, Andrés Iñiguez, Antonio Serra, Rosana Hernandez-Antolin, Vicente Mainar, Marco Valgimigli, Maurizio Tespili, Pieter den Heijer, Armando Bethencourt, Nicolás Vazquez, Patrick Serruys, Manel Sabate, Angel Cequier

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  • ·The interaction of exercise ability and body mass index upon long-term outcomes among patients undergoing stress-rest perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography imaging

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    Seth Uretsky, Azhar Supariwala, Srinivasa Gurram, Sri Lakshmi Kala Bonda, Naganath Thota, Prema Bezwada, Seema Manchireddy, Subu Nair, Randy Cohen, Alan Rozanski

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  • ·Adverse outcomes among women presenting with signs and symptoms of ischemia and no obstructive coronary artery disease: Findings from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute–sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) angiographic core laboratory

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    Barry Sharaf, Todd Wood, Leslee Shaw, B. Delia Johnson, Sheryl Kelsey, R. David Anderson, Carl J. Pepine, C. Noel Bairey Merz

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  • ·Renal dysfunction and long-term risk of heart failure after coronary artery bypass grafting

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    Martin J. Holzmann, Carl Gardell, Anders Jeppsson, Ulrik Sartipy

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  • ·Cardiovascular risk factor burden, treatment, and control among adults with chronic kidney disease in the United States

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    Meredith C. Foster, Andreea M. Rawlings, Elizabeth Marrett, David Neff, Kerry Willis, Lesley A. Inker, Josef Coresh, Elizabeth Selvin

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  • ·Educational Videos to Reduce Racial Disparities in ICD therapy Via Innovative Designs (VIVID): A randomized clinical trial

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    Kevin L. Thomas, Louise O. Zimmer, David Dai, Sana M. Al-Khatib, Nancy M. Allen LaPointe, Eric D. Peterson

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  • ·Consideration of patient age and life expectancy in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator referral

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    Thomas A. Dewland, Jonathan C. Hsu, Jorge M. Castellanos, Lisa M. Smith, Gregory M. Marcus

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  • ·Reciprocal relations between physical disability, subjective health, and atrial fibrillation: The Framingham Heart Study

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    Michiel Rienstra, Asya Lyass, Joanne M. Murabito, Jared W. Magnani, Steven A. Lubitz, Joseph M. Massaro, Patrick T. Ellinor, Emelia J. Benjamin

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  • ·The Cholesterol, Hypertension, And Glucose Education (CHANGE) study: Results from a randomized controlled trial in African Americans with diabetes

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    Matthew J. Crowley, Benjamin J. Powers, Maren K. Olsen, Janet M. Grubber, Celine Koropchak, Cynthia M. Rose, Pamela Gentry, Lynn Bowlby, Gloria Trujillo, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Hayden B. Bosworth

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  • ·Phytosterols, red yeast rice, and lifestyle changes instead of statins: A randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial

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    David J. Becker, Benjamin French, Patti B. Morris, Erin Silvent, Ram Y. Gordon

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• Retraction Notice

  • ·Retraction notice to “Vitamin D levels do not predict cardiovascular events in statin-treated patients with stable coronary disease” [Am Heart J 2012;164:387-393]

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    Vera Bittner, Nanette K. Wenger, David D. Waters, David A. DeMicco, Michael Messig, John C. LaRosa