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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Results of Expert Meetings

  • ·Proceedings from Duke Resistant Hypertension Think Tank

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    Sreekanth Vemulapalli, Jamy Ard, George L. Bakris, Deepak L. Bhatt, Alan S. Brown, William C. Cushman, Keith C. Ferdinand, John M. Flack, Jerome L. Fleg, Barry T. Katzen, John B. Kostis, Suzanne Oparil, Chet B. Patel, Carl J. Pepine, Ileana L. Piña, Krishna J. Rocha-Singh, Raymond R. Townsend, Eric D. Peterson, Robert M. Califf, Manesh R. Patel

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• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·Carcinoid heart disease: Current understanding and future directions

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    Chirdeep Patel, Moses Mathur, Ricardo O. Escarcega, Alfred A. Bove

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• Trial Design

  • ·PROspective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of chest pain: Rationale and design of the PROMISE trial

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    Pamela S. Douglas, Udo Hoffmann, Kerry L. Lee, Daniel B. Mark, Hussein R. Al-Khalidi, Kevin Anstrom, Rowena J. Dolor, Andrzej Kosinski, Mitchell W. Krucoff, Daniel W. Mudrick, Manesh R. Patel, Michael H. Picard, James E. Udelson, Eric J. Velazquez, Lawton Cooper, PROMISE investigators f

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  • ·Rationale and design of the PeriOperative ISchemic Evaluation-2 (POISE-2) trial: An international 2 × 2 factorial randomized controlled trial of acetyl-salicylic acid vs placebo and clonidine vs placebo in patients undergoing noncardiac surgery

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    Philip J. Devereaux

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Adherence to dabigatran therapy and longitudinal patient outcomes: Insights from the Veterans Health Administration

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    Supriya Shore, Evan P. Carey, Mintu P. Turakhia, Cynthia A. Jackevicius, Fran Cunningham, Louise Pilote, Steven M. Bradley, Thomas M. Maddox, Gary K. Grunwald, Anna E. Barón, John S. Rumsfeld, Paul D. Varosy, Preston M. Schneider, Lucas N. Marzec, P. Michael Ho

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  • ·Posttreatment platelet reactivity on clopidogrel is associated with the risk of adverse events after off-pump coronary artery bypass

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    Young-Nam Youn, Gijong Yi, Sak Lee, Hyun-Chel Joo, Kyung-Jong Yoo

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  • ·Aldosterone inhibition and coronary endothelial function in women without obstructive coronary artery disease: An ancillary study of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute–sponsored Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation

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    Anthony A. Bavry, Eileen M. Handberg, Tianyao Huo, Amir Lerman, Arshed A. Quyyumi, Chrisandra Shufelt, Barry Sharaf, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Rhonda M. Cooper-DeHoff, George Sopko, Carl J. Pepine

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  • ·The quality of antiplatelet and anticoagulant medication administration among ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients transferred for primary percutaneous coronary intervention

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    Tracy Y. Wang, David J. Magid, Henry H. Ting, Shuang Li, Karen P. Alexander, Matthew T. Roe, Eric D. Peterson

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  • ·Implications of prior myocardial infarction for patients presenting with an acute myocardial infarction

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    Lan Shen, Bimal R. Shah, Aro Nam, DaJuanicia Holmes, Karen P. Alexander, Deepak L. Bhatt, P. Michael Ho, Eric D. Peterson, Ben He, Matthew T. Roe

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  • ·Prevalence and predictors of nonobstructive coronary artery disease identified with coronary angiography in contemporary clinical practice

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    Manesh R. Patel, David Dai, Adrian F. Hernandez, Pamela S. Douglas, John Messenger, Kirk N. Garratt, Thomas M. Maddox, Eric D. Peterson, Matthew T. Roe

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  • ·Elevated plasma galectin-3 is associated with near-term rehospitalization in heart failure: A pooled analysis of 3 clinical trials

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    Wouter C. Meijers, James L. Januzzi, Christopher deFilippi, Aram S. Adourian, Sanjiv J. Shah, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen, Rudolf A. de Boer

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  • ·Association between alcohol consumption and systolic ventricular function: A population-based study

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    Haroon Yousaf, Richard J. Rodeheffer, Timothy E. Paterick, Zain Ashary, Mirza Nubair Ahmad, Khawaja Afzal Ammar

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  • ·Association of electrocardiogram abnormalities and incident heart failure events

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    Baris Gencer, Javed Butler, Douglas C. Bauer, Reto Auer, Andreas Kalogeropoulos, Pedro Marques-Vidal, William B. Applegate, Suzanne Satterfield, Tamara Harris, Anne Newman, Eric Vittinghoff, Nicolas Rodondi, Health ABC Study

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  • ·The pulmonary capillary wedge pressure accurately reflects both normal and elevated left atrial pressure

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    Anikó I. Nagy, Ashwin Venkateshvaran, Pravat Kumar Dash, Banajit Barooah, Béla Merkely, Reidar Winter, Aristomenis Manouras

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  • ·Spatial heterogeneity of neoatherosclerosis and its relationship with neovascularization and adjacent plaque characteristics: Optical coherence tomography study

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    Jinwei Tian, Xuefeng Ren, Shiro Uemura, Harold Dauerman, Abhiram Prasad, Catalin Toma, Haibo Jia, Farhad Abtahian, Rocco Vergallo, Sining Hu, Iris McNulty, Hang Lee, Stephen Lee, Bo Yu, Ik-Kyung Jang

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  • ·Ten-year clinical follow-up after sirolimus-eluting stent implantation

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    Nuno Palhais, Diego Arroyo, Sonja Lehmann, Mario Togni, Urs Kaufmann, Serban-Georges Puricel, Jean-Christophe Stauffer, Jean-Jacques Goy, Stéphane Cook

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  • ·Arterial access site utilization in cardiogenic shock in the United Kingdom: Is radial access feasible?

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    Mamas A. Mamas, Simon G. Anderson, Karim Ratib, Helen Routledge, Ludwig Neyses, Douglas G. Fraser, Iain Buchan, Mark A. de Belder, Peter Ludman, Jim Nolan

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  • ·Comparison of double (360 mg) ticagrelor loading dose with standard (60 mg) prasugrel loading dose in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients: The Rapid Activity of Platelet Inhibitor Drugs (RAPID) primary PCI 2 study

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    Guido Parodi, Benedetta Bellandi, Renato Valenti, Angela Migliorini, Rossella Marcucci, Nazario Carrabba, Letizia Giurlani, Gian Franco Gensini, Rosanna Abbate, David Antoniucci

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  • ·Association between prehospital electrocardiogram use and patient home distance from the percutaneous coronary intervention center on total reperfusion time in ST-segment–elevation myocardial infarction patients: A retrospective analysis from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry

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    Bryn E. Mumma, Michael C. Kontos, S. Andrew Peng, Deborah B. Diercks

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  • ·Characteristics of pediatric cardiovascular clinical trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov

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    Kevin D. Hill, Karen Chiswell, Robert M. Califf, Gail Pearson, Jennifer S. Li

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Letter to the editor regarding the results of the MULIN CRT study published in the American Heart Journal

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    Pravin K. Goel, Aditya Kapoor

    
  • ·Reply to letter to the editor by Goel and Kapoor

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    Maurizio Gasparini, Francisco Leyva

    
  • ·The “smoker paradox” in older patients with non–ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the CRUSADE Registry

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    Gen-Min Lin, Yi-Hwei Li

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  • ·Response to Letter to the Editor by Lin et al

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    Lan Shen, Laine Thomas, Bimal R. Shah