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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Contents

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• Coronary Artery Disease

  • ·Extended Clopidogrel Therapy Beyond 12 Months and Long-Term Outcomes in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus Receiving Coronary Arterial Second-Generation Drug-Eluting Stents

    Pagina :705-711

    Sung Woo Cho, Kyutae Park, Jong-Hwa Ahn, Taek Kyu Park, Su Yeon Lee, Jihoon Kim, Joo Myung Lee, Jeong Hoon Yang, Young Bin Song, Jin-Ho Choi, Seung-Hyuk Choi, Hyeon-Cheol Gwon, Sang Hoon Lee, Joonghyun Ahn, K.C. Carriere, Joo-Yong Hahn

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  • ·Temporal Changes in Co-Morbidity Burden in Patients Having Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Impact on Prognosis

    Pagina :712-722

    Jessica Potts, Chun Shing Kwok, Joie Ensor, Muhammad Rashid, Umesh Kadam, Tim Kinnaird, Nicholas Curzen, Samir B. Pancholy, Danielle Van der Windt, Richard D. Riley, Rodrigo Bagur, Mamas A. Mamas

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  • ·Outcomes of Fractional Flow Reserve-Based Deferral in Saphenous Vein Graft Narrowing

    Pagina :723-728

    Ahmed Almomani, Naga Venkata Pothineni, Mohan Edupuganti, Jason Payne, Shiv Agarwal, Barry Uretsky, Abdul Hakeem

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  • ·Usefulness of Serum Procalcitonin as a Markerfor Coexisting Infection in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :729-734

    Itzhak Vitkon-Barkay, Tsilia Lazarovitch, Dror Marchaim, Ronit Zaidenstein, Elizabeth Temkin, Emily T. Martin, Hannah E. Segaloff, Ilya Litovchik, Victoria Rum, Chana Richter, Oran Tzuman, Zvi Vered, Saar Minha

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  • ·Predictive Value of High-Sensitivity Troponin T for Systolic Dysfunction and Infarct Size (Six Months) After ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :735-743

    Moman A. Mohammad, Sasha Koul, J. Gustav Smith, Marco Noc, Irene Lang, Michael Holzer, Peter Clemmensen, Ulf Jensen, Thomas Engstrøm, Håkan Arheden, Stefan James, Bertil Lindahl, Bernhard Metzler, David Erlinge

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  • ·Frequency of Appropriate and Low-Risk Noncardiac Preoperative Stress Testing Across Medical Specialties

    Pagina :744-748

    Brandon Peterson, Mehrdad Ghahramani, Matthew Emerich, Andrew J. Foy

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  • ·Depressive Symptoms and Risk for Sudden Cardiac Death in Stable Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :749-755

    Minna Lahtinen, Antti M. Kiviniemi, M. Juhani Junttila, Maria Kääriäinen, Heikki V. Huikuri, Mikko P. Tulppo

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• Preventive Cardiology

  • ·Frequency of Statin Use in Patients With Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol ?190 mg/dl from the Veterans Affairs Health System

    Pagina :756-761

    Fatima Rodriguez, Joshua W. Knowles, David J. Maron, Salim S. Virani, Paul A. Heidenreich

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  • ·Risk of Incident Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular DiseaseEvents by Achieved Atherogenic Lipid Levels Among62,428 Statin-Treated Individuals With Diabetes Mellitus

    Pagina :762-767

    Jamal S. Rana, Jennifer Y. Liu, Howard H. Moffet, Susan H. Boklage, Irfan Khan, Andrew J. Karter

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  • ·Willingness to be Reinitiated on a Statin (from the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke Study)

    Pagina :768-774

    Matthew T. Mefford, Gabriel S. Tajeu, Rikki M. Tanner, Lisandro D. Colantonio, Keri L. Monda, Ricardo Dent, Michael E. Farkouh, Robert S. Rosenson, Monika M. Safford, Paul Muntner

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  • ·Effect of Cardiorespiratory Fitness on Risk of Sudden Cardiac Death in Overweight/Obese Men Aged 42 to 60 Years

    Pagina :775-779

    Sae Young Jae, Barry A. Franklin, Sudhir Kurl, Bo Fernhall, Setor K. Kunutsor, Jussi Kauhanen, Jari A. Laukkanen

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• Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances

  • ·Interactions Among Vitamin D, Atrial Fibrillation, and the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System

    Pagina :780-784

    Alexander Turin, Jeroen J. Bax, Demetrios Doukas, Cara Joyce, John J. Lopez, Verghese Mathew, Gianluca Pontone, Falak Shah, Sanjay Singh, David J. Wilber, Mark G. Rabbat

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  • ·Estimated Effectiveness and Safety of Nonvitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants Compared With Optimally Acenocoumarol Anticoagulated “Real-World” in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :785-792

    María Asunción Esteve-Pastor, José Miguel Rivera-Caravaca, Vanessa Roldán, Esteban Orenes-Piñero, Giulio Francesco Romiti, Imma Romanazzi, Ying Bai, Joa?o Carmo, Marco Proietti, Francisco Marín, Gregory Y.H. Lip

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  • ·The Disease Burden of Atrial Fibrillation in China from a National Cross-sectional Survey

    Pagina :793-798

    Zengwu Wang, Zuo Chen, Xin Wang, Linfeng Zhang, Suning Li, Ye Tian, Lan Shao, Hao Hu, Runlin Gao, for China Hypertension Survey Group

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  • ·Safety of Transvenous Lead Removal in Patients ?70 Years of Age in the United States from 2005 to 2012

    Pagina :799-805

    Xiaofan Guo, Robert M. Hayward, Eric Vittinghoff, Yamin Liu, Sun Yong Lee, Mark J. Pletcher, Byron K. Lee

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  • ·Meta-Analysis Comparing Catheter-Guided Ablation Versus Conventional Medical Therapy for Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction

    Pagina :806-813

    Akram Y. Elgendy, Ahmed N. Mahmoud, Muhammad S. Khan, Maryam R. Sheikh, Mohammad K. Mojadidi, Mohamed Omer, Islam Y. Elgendy, Anthony A. Bavry, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, William M. Miles, Matthew McKillop

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  • ·Usefulness of Reversed U-Curve Technique to EnhanceMapping and Ablation Efficiency in the Treatment ofPulmonary Sinus Cusp-Derived Ventricular Arrhythmias

    Pagina :814-820

    Xiaonan Dong, Min Tang, Qi Sun, Shu Zhang

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• Heart Failure

  • ·Heart Failure Severity and Quality of Warfarin Anticoagulation Control (From the WARCEF Trial)

    Pagina :821-827

    Tetz C. Lee, Min Qian, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Marco R. Di Tullio, Susan Graham, Douglas L. Mann, Koki Nakanishi, John R. Teerlink, Ronald S. Freudenberger, Ralph L. Sacco, J.P. Mohr, Arthur J. Labovitz, Piotr Ponikowski, Dirk J. Lok, Conrado Estol, Stefan D. Anker, Patrick M. Pullicino, Richard Buchsbaum, Bruce Levin, John L.P. Thompson, Shunichi Homma, Siqin Ye, The WARCEF Investigators 1

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• Valvular Heart Disease

  • ·Failure to Rescue, Hospital Volume, and In-Hospital Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

    Pagina :828-832

    Tomo Ando, Oluwole Adegbala, Pedro A. Villablanca, Mohamed Shokr, Emmanuel Akintoye, Alexandros Briasoulis, Hisato Takagi, Theodore Schreiber, Cindy L. Grines, Luis Afonso

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  • ·Relation of Left Ventricular Fractional Shortening to Needfor Permanent Pacemaker After Transcatheter AorticValve Implantation

    Pagina :833-837

    Katia Orvin, Haim Herzberg, Gregory Golovchiner, Ehud Kadmon, Alexander Omelchenko, Abid Assali, Hana Vaknin-Assa, Alex Sagie, Yaron Shapira, Mordehay Vaturi, Ran Kornowski, Alon Barsheshet

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  • ·Comparison of Hospital Outcomes of Transcatheter AorticValve Implantation With Versus Without Hypothyroidism

    Pagina :838-843

    Ahmed Subahi, Ahmed S. Yassin, Oluwole Adegbala, Emmanuel Akintoye, Hossam Abubakar, Adel Elmoghrabi, Walid Ibrahim, Mustafa Ajam, Mohit Pahuja, Jarrett J. Weinberger, Diane Levine, Luis Afonso

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  • ·Frequency and Consequences of Cognitive Impairmentin Patients Underwent Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

    Pagina :844-850

    Ryo Yanagisawa, Makoto Tanaka, Fumiaki Yashima, Takahide Arai, Takashi Kohno, Hideyuki Shimizu, Keiichi Fukuda, Toru Naganuma, Kazuki Mizutani, Motoharu Araki, Norio Tada, Futoshi Yamanaka, Shinichi Shirai, Minoru Tabata, Hiroshi Ueno, Kensuke Takagi, Akihiro Higashimori, Yusuke Watanabe, Masanori Yamamoto, Kentaro Hayashida

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  • ·Predicting Outcomes in Patients With AsymptomaticModerate to Severe Aortic Stenosis

    Pagina :851-858

    Robert C. Bahler, Riem Hawi, Aleksandr Rovner, Robert S. Finkelhor, Charles L. Thomas, Neal V. Dawson

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  • ·Impact of Preprocedural Anemia on Outcomes ofPatients With Mitral Regurgitation Who UnderwentMitraClip Implantation

    Pagina :859-865

    Hidehiro Kaneko, Michael Neuss, Maki Okamoto, Jens Weissenborn, Christian Butter

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• Cardiomyopathy

  • ·A Control Theory-Based Pilot Intervention toIncrease Physical Activity in Patients WithHypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :866-871

    Joanna Sweeting, Jodie Ingles, Kylie Ball, Christopher Semsarian

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• Miscellaneous

  • ·Clinical and Echocardiographic Predictors of Outcomes in Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension

    Pagina :872-878

    Irfan Siddiqui, Sudarshan Rajagopal, Amanda Brucker, Karen Chiswell, Bridgette Christopher, Fawaz Alenezi, Aditya Mandawat, Danny Rivera, Kristine Arges, Victor Tapson, Joseph Kisslo, Eric Velazquez, Pamela S. Douglas, Zainab Samad

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  • ·Effects of a 12-Week mHealth Program on FunctionalCapacity and Physical Activity in Patients With PeripheralArtery Disease

    Pagina :879-884

    Brian D. Duscha, Lucy W. Piner, Mahesh P. Patel, Lawrence E. Crawford, William S. Jones, Manesh R. Patel, William E. Kraus

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  • ·Usefulness of Left Atrial Remodeling in Predicting CardiacToxicity During Trastuzumab Therapy for Breast Cancer

    Pagina :885-889

    Corinna Bergamini, Giovanni Benfari, Giulia Dolci, Flavia Torelli, Luca Ghiselli, Laura Trevisani, Stella Truong, Giulia Vinco, Francesca La Russa, Giorgio Golia, Annamaria Molino, Andrea Rossi, Flavio L. Ribichini

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  • ·Ten-Year Trends of Public-Access Defibrillation in Japanese School-Aged Patients Having Neurologically Favorable Survival After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

    Pagina :890-897

    Kosuke Kiyohara, Masahiko Nitta, Yasuto Sato, Noriko Kojimahara, Naohito Yamaguchi, Taku Iwami, Tetsuhisa Kitamura

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  • ·Operative Recognition of Syphilis of the Aorta

    Pagina :898-904

    William C. Roberts, Nitin Kondapalli

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  • ·Acute Effect of Hookah Smoking on Arterial Stiffness and Wave Reflections in Adults Aged 18 to 34 Years of Age

    Pagina :905-909

    Mary Rezk-Hanna, Lynn Doering, Wendie Robbins, Linda Sarna, Robert M. Elashoff, Ronald G. Victor

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• Readers' Comments

  • ·Is There Really a Paradoxical Effect of Obesity on Mortality Rate in High-Risk Patients? It Is Time for Large Mendelian Randomization Studies

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    Vincenzo Trischitta, Rosa Di Paola

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  • ·Readmissions Among Patients With Peripartum Cardiomyopathy

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    O?uzhan Çelik, Cem Çil, Funda Sungur Biteker, Murat Biteker

    
  • ·Evaluation of Gender Differences in Atrial Fibrillation-Related Risk Factors in General Chinese Population: Insights From a Large Asian Population

    Pagina :912-913

    Haoyu Wang, Yingxian Sun

    
  • ·J Point Elevation Needs to Be Defined, and Is Not Synonymous With Early Repolarization

    Pagina :914

    Brooks M. Walsh

    
  • ·Atrial Fibrillation After Percutaneous Patent Foramen Ovale Closure

    Pagina :915

    Mohammad K. Mojadidi, Akram Y. Elgendy, Islam Y. Elgendy, Ahmed N. Mahmoud, Bernhard Meier

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