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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Authors

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Trial Design

  • ·Design and rationale of the MICHELANGELO Organization to Assess Strategies in Acute Ischemic Syndromes (OASIS)–5 trial program evaluating fondaparinux, a synthetic factor Xa inhibitor, in patients with non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes

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    MICHELANGELO OASIS 5 Steering Committee a 1

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• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·Schizophrenia and increased risks of cardiovascular disease

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    Charles H. Hennekens, Alissa R. Hennekens, Danielle Hollar, Daniel E. Casey

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• Clinical Investigations

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  • ·Relationship between anemia, cardiac troponin I, and B-type natriuretic peptide levels and mortality in patients with advanced heart failure

    Pagina :1220-1227

    Sonia Ralli, Tamara B. Horwich, Gregg C. Fonarow

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  • ·Plasma amino-terminal pro–B-type natriuretic peptide quantification in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :1228-1232

    Edmundo Arteaga, Aloir Queiroz Araujo, Paula Buck, Barbara Maria Ianni, Rogerio Rabello, Charles Mady

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  • ·Obesity as a prognostic factor in chronic symptomatic heart failure

    Pagina :1233-1239

    Biykem Bozkurt, Anita Deswal

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  • ·Effects of the renal natriuretic peptide urodilatin (ularitide) in patients with decompensated chronic heart failure: A double-blind, placebo-controlled, ascending-dose trial

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    Veselin Mitrovic, Hartmut Lüss, Klaus Nitsche, Kristin Forssmann, Erik Maronde, Katrin Fricke, Wolf-Georg Forssmann, Markus Meyer

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  • ·Predictors of a sustained response to exercise training in patients with chronic heart failure: A telemonitoring study

    Pagina :1240-1247

    Neil Smart, Brian Haluska, Leanne Jeffriess, Thomas H. Marwick

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  • ·The preoperative intraaortic balloon pump in coronary bypass surgery: A lack of evidence of effectiveness

    Pagina :1122-1127

    Roger J.F. Baskett, Gerald T. O'Connor, Gregory M. Hirsch, William A. Ghali, Kathryn A. Sabadosa, Jeremy R. Morton, Cathy S. Ross, Felix Hernandez, William C. Nugent, Stephen J. Lahey, Donato Sisto, Lawrence J. Dacey, John D. Klemperer, Robert E. Helm, Andrew Maitland

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  • ·Independent elevations of N-terminal pro–brain natriuretic peptide and cardiac troponins in endurance athletes after prolonged strenuous exercise

    Pagina :1128-1134

    Jürgen Scharhag, Markus Herrmann, Axel Urhausen, Michaela Haschke, Wolfgang Herrmann, Wilfried Kindermann

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  • ·Skin cholesterol content identifies increased carotid intima–media thickness in asymptomatic adults

    Pagina :1135-1139

    Wendy S. Tzou, Maureen E. Mays, Claudia E. Korcarz, Susan E. Aeschlimann, James H. Stein

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  • ·Outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing cardiac rehabilitation

    Pagina :1140-1146

    Rajesh Venkataraman, Bonnie Sanderson, Vera Bittner

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  • ·Impact of combined secondary prevention therapy after myocardial infarction: Data from a nationwide French registry

    Pagina :1147-1153

    Nicolas Danchin, Jean-Pierre Cambou, Guy Hanania, Zena Kadri, Nathalie Genès, Jean-Marc Lablanche, Didier Blanchard, Laurent Vaur, Pierre Clerson, Pascal Guéret, USIC 2000 investigators

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  • ·Genetic variation in the hepatic lipase gene is associated with combined hyperlipidemia, plasma lipid concentrations, and lipid-lowering drug response

    Pagina :1154-1162

    Ana Cenarro, Marta Artieda, Carmen Gonzalvo, Erardo Meriño-Ibarra, Rosa Arístegui, Alberto Gañán, Cristina Díaz, Josep María Sol, Miguel Pocoví, Fernando Civeira, on behalf of the ATOMIX Study Group

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  • ·Impact of moderate renal insufficiency on restenosis and adverse clinical events after paclitaxel-eluting and bare metal stent implantation: Results from the TAXUS-IV Trial

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    Amir Halkin, Roxana Mehran, Christopher W. Casey, Paul Gordon, Ray Matthews, B. Hadley Wilson, Martin B. Leon, Mary E. Russell, Stephen G. Ellis, Gregg W. Stone

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  • ·An Internet-based registry examining the efficacy of heparin coating in patients undergoing coronary stent implantation

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    Roxana Mehran, Eugenia Nikolsky, Edoardo Camenzind, Michael Zelizko, Igor Kranjec, Ricardo Seabra-Gomes, Manuela Negoita, Steven Slack, Chaim Lotan

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  • ·Benefit of clopidogrel according to timing of percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with acute coronary syndromes: Further results from the Clopidogrel in Unstable angina to prevent Recurrent Events (CURE) study

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    Basil S. Lewis, Shamir R. Mehta, Keith A.A. Fox, David A. Halon, Feng Zhao, Ron J.G. Peters, Matyas Keltai, Andrzej Budaj, Salim Yusuf, for the CURE trial investigators

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  • ·Circadian variation in myocardial perfusion and mortality in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction treated by primary angioplasty

    Pagina :1185-1189

    Giuseppe De Luca, Harry Suryapranata, Jan Paul Ottervanger, Arnoud W.J. van't Hof, Jan C.A. Hoorntje, A.T. Marcel Gosselink, Jan-Henk E. Dambrink, Felix Zijlstra, Menko-Jan de Boer

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  • ·The interaction of vascular inflammation and chronic kidney disease for the prediction of long-term death after percutaneous coronary intervention

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    Robert B. Fathi, Hitinder S. Gurm, Derek P. Chew, Ritesh Gupta, Deepak L. Bhatt, Stephen G. Ellis

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  • ·Tooth loss is independently associated with the risk of acquired aortic valve sclerosis

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    Henry Völzke, Christian Schwahn, Astrid Hummel, Birger Wolff, Volker Kleine, Daniel M. Robinson, Johannes B. Dahm, Stephan B. Felix, Ulrich John, Thomas Kocher

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  • ·A simple prediction rule for significant renal artery stenosis in patients undergoing cardiac catheterization

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    Mauricio G. Cohen, J. Andrés Pascua, Marta Garcia-Ben, Carlos A. Rojas-Matas, Jose M. Gabay, Daniel H. Berrocal, Walter A. Tan, George A. Stouffer, Mario Montoya, Alejandro D. Fernandez, Marcelo E. Halac, Liliana R. Grinfeld

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  • ·Effect of raloxifene on aortic elasticity in healthy postmenopausal women

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    Nicholas A. Tritos, Lois Goepfert, Kraig V. Kissinger, George Katsimaglis, Warren J. Manning, Peter G. Danias

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  • ·Can pro–brain natriuretic peptide be used as a noninvasive predictor of elevated left ventricular diastolic pressures in patients with normal systolic function?

    Pagina :1213-1219

    Boyoung Joung, Jong-Won Ha, Young Guk Ko, Seok-Min Kang, Se-Joong Rim, Yangsoo Jang, Namsik Chung, Won-Heum Shim, Seung-Yun Cho

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  • ·Prognostic significance of residual cumulative ST-segment deviation after mechanical reperfusion in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

    Pagina :1248-1254

    Giuseppe De Luca, Arthur C. Maas, Harry Suryapranata, Jan Paul Ottervanger, Jan C.A. Hoorntje, A.T. Marcel Gosselink, Jan-Henk Dambrink, Menko-Jan de Boer, Arnoud W.J. van't Hof

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  • ·Dynamics in N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide concentration in patients with non–ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome

    Pagina :1255-1259

    Robert K. Riezebos, Eelko Ronner, Bauke A. de Boer, Ed H. Slaats, Jan G.P. Tijssen, Gert-Jan Laarman

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  • ·Prevalence and management of hypertension in acute coronary syndrome patients varies by sex: Observations from the Sibrafiban versus aspirin to Yield Maximum Protection from ischemic Heart events postacute cOroNary sYndromes (SYMPHONY) randomized clinical trials

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    Camille G. Frazier, Svati H. Shah, Paul W. Armstrong, Manjushri V. Bhapkar, Darren K. McGuire, Zygmunt Sadowski, Arni Kristinsson, Philip E. Aylward, Werner W. Klein, W. Douglas Weaver, L. Kristin Newby, for the SYMPHONY and the Second SYMPHONY Investigators

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  • ·Prognostic significance of echocardiographically defined mitral regurgitation early after acute myocardial infarction

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    Graham S. Hillis, Jacob E. Møller, Patricia A. Pellikka, Malcolm R. Bell, Grace C. Casaclang-Verzosa, Jae K. Oh

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  • ·Women with a low Framingham risk score and a family history of premature coronary heart disease have a high prevalence of subclinical coronary atherosclerosis

    Pagina :1276-1281

    Erin D. Michos, Chandrasekhar R. Vasamreddy, Diane M. Becker, Lisa R. Yanek, Taryn F. Moy, Elliot K. Fishman, Lewis C. Becker, Roger S. Blumenthal

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  • ·Correlation of exercise capacity with high-sensitive C-reactive protein in patients with stable coronary artery disease

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    Kazem Rahimi, Maria-Anna Secknus, Matti Adam, Bibi-Fatemeh Hayerizadeh, Martin Fiedler, Joachim Thiery, Gerhard Schuler

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• Letters to the Editor

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    Harry W. Daniell

    
  • ·Letter to the Editor

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    Garrett John Gross, Eric R. Gross, Jason N. Peart

    
  • ·Anti-inflammatory effect of alcohol and cigarette smoking

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    Luca Mascitelli, Francesca Pezzetta

    
  • ·Does alcohol affect CRP levels?

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    Ignatios Ikonomidis