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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Contents

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• Coronary Artery Disease

  • ·Impact of Homocysteine-Lowering Vitamin Therapy on Long-Term Outcome of Patients With Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :745-749

    Aviv Mager, Katia Orvin, Nira Koren-Morag, Israel Eli Lev, Abid Assali, Ran Kornowski, Mordechai Shohat, Alexander Battler, David Hasdai

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  • ·Acute Effects of Statin Therapy on Coronary Atherosclerosis Following an Acute Coronary Syndrome

    Pagina :750-757

    Josep Rodés-Cabau, Jean-Claude Tardif, Mariève Cossette, Olivier F. Bertrand, Reda Ibrahim, Eric Larose, Jean Grégoire, Philippe L. L'Allier, Marie-Claude Guertin

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  • ·Relation Between Framingham Risk Categories and the Presence of Functionally Relevant Coronary Lesions as Determined on Multislice Computed Tomography and Stress Testing

    Pagina :758-763

    Gaetano Nucifora, Joanne D. Schuijf, Jacob M. van Werkhoven, Roxana Djaberi, Ernst E. van der Wall, Albert de Roos, Arthur J.H.A. Scholte, Martin J. Schalij, J. Wouter Jukema, Jeroen J. Bax

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  • ·Effect of Blood Hematocrit and Erythrocyte Deformability on Adenosine 5′-Diphosphate Platelet Reactivity in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes on Dual Antiplatelet Therapy

    Pagina :764-768

    Emanuele Cecchi, Rossella Marcucci, Rita Paniccia, Brunella Bandinelli, Serafina Valente, Cristina Giglioli, Chiara Lazzeri, Gian Franco Gensini, Rosanna Abbate, Lucia Mannini

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  • ·Comparison of Blood Glucose Values on Admission for Acute Myocardial Infarction in Patients With Versus Without Diabetes Mellitus

    Pagina :769-774

    Masaharu Ishihara, Sunao Kojima, Tomohiro Sakamoto, Kazuo Kimura, Masami Kosuge, Yujiro Asada, Chuwa Tei, Shunichi Miyazaki, Masahiro Sonoda, Kazufumi Tsuchihashi, Masakazu Yamagishi, Mutsunori Shirai, Hisatoyo Hiraoka, Takashi Honda, Yasuhiro Ogata, Hisao Ogawa, Japanese Acute Coronary Syndrome Study (JACSS) Investigators

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  • ·Association of a Unique Cardiovascular Risk Profile With Outcomes in Hispanic Patients Referred for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Dynamic Registry)

    Pagina :775-779

    Shailja V. Parikh, Jonathan R. Enriquez, Faith Selzer, James N. Slater, Warren K. Laskey, Robert L. Wilensky, Oscar C. Marroquin, Elizabeth M. Holper

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  • ·Prognostic Impact of Q Waves on Presentation and ST Resolution in Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Treated With Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :780-785

    Saurabh Kumar, Calvin Hsieh, Gopal Sivagangabalan, Hera Chan, Alisdair D.S. Ryding, Arun Narayan, Andrew T.L. Ong, Norman Sadick, Pramesh Kovoor

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  • ·Comparison of Long Versus Short (“Spot”) Drug-Eluting Stenting for Long Coronary Stenoses

    Pagina :786-790

    Demosthenes G. Katritsis, Socrates Korovesis, Efthalia Tzanalaridou, Eleftherios Giazitzoglou, Eutychios Voridis, Bernhard Meier

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• Roundtable Discussion (CME)

  • ·The Editor's Roundtable: Intracoronary Hyperoxemic Therapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :791-797

    Vincent E. Friedewald, Raymond J. Gibbons, William W. O'Neill, Jeffrey J. Popma, Gregg W. Stone, William C. Roberts

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• Preventive Cardiology

  • ·Usefulness of Statin–Ezetimibe Combination to Reduce the Care Gap in Dyslipidemia Management in Patients With a High Risk of Atherosclerotic Disease

    Pagina :798

    Hwee Teoh, Aurora A. Mendelsohn, Shaun G. Goodman, Shahin Jaffer, Richard Y.Y. Chen, Sabine Tjia, Lyne Theriault, Anatoly Langer, Lawrence A. Leiter, Guidelines Based Undertaking for Improvement in Dyslipidemia Related Events (GUIDE) Investigators ⁎

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  • ·Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Coronary Atherosclerosis in Retired National Football League Players

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    Alice Y. Chang, Shannon J. FitzGerald, John Cannaday, Song Zhang, Amit Patel, M. Dean Palmer, Gautham P. Reddy, Karen G. Ordovas, Arthur E. Stillman, Warren Janowitz, Nina B. Radford, Arthur J. Roberts, Benjamin D. Levine

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  • ·Ethnic-Specific Risks for Atherosclerotic Calcification of the Thoracic and Abdominal Aorta (from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis)

    Pagina :812-817

    Matthew A. Allison, Matthew J. Budoff, Khurram Nasir, Nathan D. Wong, Robert Detrano, Richard Kronmal, Junichiro Takasu, Michael H. Criqui

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  • ·Cholesteryl Ester Transfer Protein, Coronary Calcium, and Intima-Media Thickness of the Carotid Artery in Middle-Age Japanese Men

    Pagina :818-822

    Tomonori Okamura, Akira Sekikawa, Takashi Kadowaki, Aiman El-Saed, Robert D. Abbott, J. David Curb, Daniel Edmundowicz, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Kiyoshi Murata, Atsunori Kashiwagi, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, Rhobert W. Evans, Joseph M. Zmuda, Hiroshi Maegawa, Atsushi Hozawa, Ken-Ichi Mitsunami, Yoshihiko Nishio, Iva Miljkovic-Gacic, Minoru Horie, Naomi Miyamatsu, Yoshitaka Murakami, Lewis H. Kuller, Hirotsugu Ueshima

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  • ·Effect of Habitual Aerobic Exercise on Body Weight and Arterial Function in Overweight and Obese Men

    Pagina :823-828

    Asako Miyaki, Seiji Maeda, Mutsuko Yoshizawa, Maiko Misono, Yoko Saito, Hiroyuki Sasai, Maeng-Kyu Kim, Yoshio Nakata, Kiyoji Tanaka, Ryuichi Ajisaka

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  • ·Effects of Increasing High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Decreasing Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol on the Incidence of First Acute Coronary Events (from the Air Force/Texas Coronary Atherosclerosis Prevention Study)

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    Yadong Cui, Douglas J. Watson, Cynthia J. Girman, Deborah R. Shapiro, Antonio M. Gotto, Patricia Hiserote, Michael B. Clearfield

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• Review

  • ·Role of Renin-Angiotensin System Blockade in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus

    Pagina :835-839

    Manoela F.B. Braga, Lawrence A. Leiter

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• Systemic Hypertension

  • ·Effects of the Cyclooxygenase Inhibiting Nitric Oxide Donator Naproxcinod Versus Naproxen on Systemic Blood Pressure in Patients With Osteoarthritis

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    William B. White, Thomas J. Schnitzer, Rosanna Fleming, Brigitte Duquesroix, Maarten Beekman

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• Valvular Heart Disease

  • ·Effect of Balloon Valvuloplasty in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis on Levels of N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide

    Pagina :846-849

    Konstantinos Spargias, Elias Alexopoulos, Sofia Thomopoulou, Antonis Dimopoulos, Athanasios Manginas, Gregory Pavlides, Vassilis Voudris, George Karatassakis, George Athanassopoulos, Dennis V. Cokkinos

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  • ·Effects of Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement on Coronary Blood Flow Assessed With Transesophageal Doppler Echocardiography in Patients With Severe Aortic Stenosis

    Pagina :850-855

    Itsik Ben-Dor, Steven A. Goldstein, Ron Waksman, Lowell F. Satler, Yanlin Li, Asmir I. Syed, Gabriel Maluenda, Sara D. Collins, William O. Suddath, Rebecca Torguson, Zhenyi Xue, Kimberly Kaneshige, Petros Okubagzi, Zuyue Wang, Kenneth M. Kent, Augusto D. Pichard

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• Congenital Heart Disease

  • ·Persistent Tricuspid Regurgitation and Its Predictor in Adults After Percutaneous and Isolated Surgical Closure of Secundum Atrial Septal Defect

    Pagina :856-861

    Manatomo Toyono, Richard A. Krasuski, Gosta B. Pettersson, Yoshiki Matsumura, Tetsuhiro Yamano, Takahiro Shiota

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  • ·Effect of Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Implantation on Short-Term Right Ventricular Function as Determined by Two-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Strain and Strain Rate Imaging

    Pagina :862-867

    Nasser Moiduddin, Kentaro Asoh, Cameron Slorach, Leland N. Benson, Mark K. Friedberg

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• Miscellaneous

  • ·Usefulness of Red Cell Distribution Width as a Prognostic Marker in Pulmonary Hypertension

    Pagina :868-872

    Chetan V. Hampole, Amit K. Mehrotra, Thenappan Thenappan, Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, Sanjiv J. Shah

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