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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Editorials

  • ·An update on the IMProved Reduction of Outcomes: Vytorin Efficacy International Trial (IMPROVE-IT) design

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    Robert M. Califf, Yuliya Lokhnygina, Christopher P. Cannon, Michael E. Stepanavage, Carolyn H. McCabe, Thomas A. Musliner, Richard C. Pasternak, Michael A. Blazing, Robert P. Giugliano, Robert A. Harrington, Eugene Braunwald

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  • ·Is old blood bad blood?

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    Sunil V. Rao, Robert M. Califf

    
  • ·Resistance or resistors? Has Ohm's law come to antiplatelet therapy?

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    Neal S. Kleiman

    

• Cardiac Safety Research Consortium

  • ·Evaluation of ventricular arrhythmias in early clinical pharmacology trials and potential consequences for later development

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    Sherene S. Min, J. Rick Turner, Adel Nada, Tara L. DiMino, Ivo Hynie, Robert Kleiman, Peter Kowey, Mitchell W. Krucoff, Jay W. Mason, Alex Phipps, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Robert Pordy, Colette Strnadova, Shari Targum, Kathleen Uhl, John Finkle

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• Trial Design

  • ·Individual progression of carotid intima media thickness as a surrogate for vascular risk (PROG-IMT): Rationale and design of a meta-analysis project

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    Matthias W. Lorenz, Horst Bickel, Michiel L. Bots, Monique M.B. Breteler, Alberico L. Catapano, Moise Desvarieux, Bo Hedblad, Bernhard Iglseder, Stein Harald Johnsen, Michal Juraska, Stefan Kiechl, Ellisiv B. Mathiesen, Giuseppe D. Norata, Liliana Grigore, Joseph Polak, Holger Poppert, Maria Rosvall, Tatjana Rundek, Ralph L. Sacco, Dirk Sander, Matthias Sitzer, Helmuth Steinmetz, Eva Stensland, Johann Willeit, Jacqueline Witteman, David Yanez, Simon G. Thompson, The PROG-IMT Study Group t

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Duration of red cell storage before transfusion and in-hospital mortality

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    John W. Eikelboom, Richard J. Cook, Yang Liu, Nancy M. Heddle

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  • ·Hypothesis formulation from subgroup analyses: Nonadherence or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug use explains the lack of clinical benefit of aspirin on first myocardial infarction attributed to “aspirin resistance”

    Pagina :744-748

    Charles H. Hennekens, Wendy R. Schneider, Patricia R. Hebert, Udaya S. Tantry, Paul A. Gurbel

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  • ·Cardiac arrest outside and inside hospital in a community : Mechanisms behind the differences in outcome and outcome in relation to time of arrest

    Pagina :749-756

    Martin Fredriksson, Solveig Aune, Angela Bång, Ann-Britt Thorén, Jonny Lindqvist, Thomas Karlsson, Johan Herlitz

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  • ·Implications and reasons for the lack of use of reperfusion therapy in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: Findings from the CRUSADE initiative

    Pagina :757-763

    Shahyar Michael Gharacholou, Karen P. Alexander, Anita Y. Chen, Tracy Y. Wang, Chiara Melloni, W. Brian Gibler, Charles V. Pollack, E. Magnus Ohman, Eric D. Peterson, Matthew T. Roe

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  • ·Collateral pressure and flow in acute myocardial infarction with total coronary occlusion correlate with angiographic collateral grade and creatine kinase levels

    Pagina :764-771

    Simcha R. Meisel, Michael Shochat, Aaron Frimerman, Aya Asif, David S. Blondheim, Jacob Shani, Yoseph Rozenman, Avraham Shotan

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  • ·Anxiety disorders increase risk for incident myocardial infarction in depressed and nondepressed Veterans Administration patients

    Pagina :772-779

    Jeffrey F. Scherrer, Timothy Chrusciel, Angelique Zeringue, Lauren D. Garfield, Paul J. Hauptman, Patrick J. Lustman, Kenneth E. Freedland, Robert M. Carney, Kathleen K. Bucholz, Richard Owen, William R. True

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  • ·Detection of depression in cardiac inpatients: Feasibility and results of systematic screening

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    Gillian Sowden, Carol A. Mastromauro, James L. Januzzi, Gregory L. Fricchione, Jeff C. Huffman

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  • ·ST2 and mortality in non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome

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    Kai M. Eggers, Paul W. Armstrong, Robert M. Califf, Maarten L. Simoons, Per Venge, Lars Wallentin, Stefan K. James

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  • ·Clinical synergy of perindopril and calcium-channel blocker in the prevention of cardiac events and mortality in patients with coronary artery disease. Post hoc analysis of the EUROPA study

    Pagina :795-802

    Michel E. Bertrand, Roberto Ferrari, Wilhelm J. Remme, Maarten L. Simoons, Jaab W. Deckers, K.M. Fox, on behalf of the EUROPA Investigators

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  • ·Increased risk for coronary heart disease after avascular necrosis of femoral head: A 3-year follow-up study

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    Jiunn-Horng Kang, Herng-Ching Lin

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  • ·Effects of immunoadsorption and subsequent immunoglobulin G substitution on cardiopulmonary exercise capacity in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy

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    Lars R. Herda, Christiane Trimpert, Ute Nauke, Martin Landsberger, Astrid Hummel, Daniel Beug, Arne Kieback, Marcus Dörr, Klaus Empen, Fabian Knebel, Ralf Ewert, Aniela Angelow, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Stephan B. Felix, Alexander Staudt

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  • ·Association of Health Aging and Body Composition (ABC) Heart Failure score with cardiac structural and functional abnormalities in young individuals

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    Sachin Gupta, Jarett D. Berry, Colby R. Ayers, Susan A. Matulevicius, Ronald M. Peshock, Parag C. Patel, David W. Markham, Mark H. Drazner

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  • ·Left ventricular strain and untwist in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Relation to exercise capacity

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    Khalid Abozguia, Ganesh Nallur-Shivu, Thanh T. Phan, Ibrar Ahmed, Rajat Kalra, Rebekah A. Weaver, William J. McKenna, John E. Sanderson, Perry Elliott, Michael P. Frenneaux

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  • ·Prognostic impact of baseline and serial changes in electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy in resistant hypertension

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    Gil Fernando Salles, Claudia Regina Lopes Cardoso, Roberto Fiszman, Elizabeth Silaid Muxfeldt

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  • ·Causes of death and rehospitalization in patients hospitalized with worsening heart failure and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction: Results from efficacy of vasopressin antagonism in heart failure outcome study with tolvaptan (EVEREST) program

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    Christopher M. O'Connor, Alan B. Miller, John E.A. Blair, Marvin A. Konstam, Patricia Wedge, Maria C. Bahit, Peter Carson, Markus Haass, Paul J. Hauptman, Marco Metra, Ron M. Oren, Richard Patten, Ileana Piña, Sherryn Roth, Jonathan D. Sackner-Bernstein, Brian Traver, Thomas Cook, Mihai Gheorghiade, for the Efficacy of Vasopressin Antagonism in heart Failure Outcome Study with Tolvaptan (EVEREST) investigators

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  • ·Metabolic syndrome and incidence of atrial fibrillation among blacks and whites in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study

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    Alanna M. Chamberlain, Sunil K. Agarwal, Marietta Ambrose, Aaron R. Folsom, Elsayed Z. Soliman, Alvaro Alonso

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  • ·Clinical predictors of atrial fibrillation recurrence in the Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nell'Infarto Miocardico–Atrial Fibrillation (GISSI-AF) trial

    Pagina :857-863

    Marcello Disertori, Federico Lombardi, Simona Barlera, Roberto Latini, Aldo P. Maggioni, Prisca Zeni, Giuseppe Di Pasquale, Franco Cosmi, Maria Grazia Franzosi, on behalf of the GISSI-AF Investigators g

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  • ·Significance of the amyloidogenic transthyretin Val 122 Ile allele in African Americans in the Arteriosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) and Cardiovascular Health (CHS) Studies

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    Joel Buxbaum, Alice Alexander, James Koziol, Clement Tagoe, Ervin Fox, Dalane Kitzman

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  • ·Incidence, correlates, and clinical impact of nuisance bleeding after antiplatelet therapy for patients with drug-eluting stents

    Pagina :871-875

    Itsik Ben-Dor, Rebecca Torguson, Mickey Scheinowitz, Yanlin Li, Cedric Delhaye, Kohei Wakabayashi, Gabriel Maluenda, Asmir I. Syed, Sara D. Collins, Manuel A. Gonzalez, Michael A. Gaglia, Zhenyi Xue, Kimberly Kaneshige, Lowell F. Satler, William O. Suddath, Kenneth M. Kent, Augusto D. Pichard, Ron Waksman

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  • ·Red blood cell storage duration and mortality in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

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    Simon D. Robinson, Christian Janssen, Eric B. Fretz, Brian Berry, Alex J. Chase, Anthony Della Siega, Ronald G. Carere, Anthony Fung, Gerald Simkus, W. Peter Klinke, J. David Hilton

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  • ·Endothelin-1 release in acute myocardial infarction as a predictor of long-term prognosis and no-reflow assessed by contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging

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    Ingo Eitel, Marek Nowak, Clemens Stehl, Volker Adams, Georg Fuernau, Lysann Hildebrand, Steffen Desch, Gerhard Schuler, Holger Thiele

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  • ·Dual low response to acetylsalicylic acid and clopidogrel is associated with myonecrosis and stent thrombosis after coronary stent implantation

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    Parham Eshtehardi, Stephan Windecker, Stéphane Cook, Michael Billinger, Mario Togni, Ali Garachemani, Bernhard Meier, Otto M. Hess, Peter Wenaweser

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  • ·Is visual interpretation of coronary epicardial flow reliable in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary angioplasty? Insights from the angiographic substudy of the Assessment of Pexelizumab in Acute Myocardial Infarction (APEX-AMI) trial

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    Osama Alhadramy, Cynthia M. Westerhout, Sorin J. Brener, Christopher B. Granger, Paul W. Armstrong, for the APEX AMI Investigators

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  • ·High incidence of thrombus formation at 18 months after paclitaxel-eluting stent implantation: Angioscopic comparison with sirolimus-eluting stent

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    Masahiko Hara, Masami Nishino, Masayuki Taniike, Nobuhiko Makino, Hiroyasu Kato, Yasuyuki Egami, Ryu Shutta, Hitoshi Yamaguchi, Jun Tanouchi, Yoshio Yamada

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  • ·Cardiac magnetic resonance assessment of left and right ventricular morphologic and functional adaptations in professional soccer players

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    Michael Scharf, Matthias H. Brem, Matthias Wilhelm, Uwe Joseph Schoepf, Michael Uder, Michael M. Lell

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  • ·Efficacy of cholesterol uptake inhibition added to statin therapy among subjects following a low-carbohydrate diet: A randomized controlled trial

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    Julio A. Chirinos, Monica M. Williams, David B. Bregman, Hera Ashfaq, Umar Khayyam, Nayyar Iqbal

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  • ·Characteristics of new cardiac surgery programs in the United States: Mitigating the learning curve

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    Amy E. Haskins, Andrea E. Siewers, David J. Malenka, David E. Wennberg, Frances Lee Lucas

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  • ·Hemodynamic results and changes in myocardial function after transcatheter aortic valve implantation

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    Michael Gotzmann, Michael Lindstaedt, Waldemar Bojara, Andreas Mügge, Alfried Germing

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  • ·Correction

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·SYNTAX score and left main stenting: Do we need clinical variables to predict outcomes?

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    Iñigo Lozano, Pablo Avanzas, Juan Rondan

    
  • ·Response to: SYNTAX score and left main stenting: Do we need clinical variables to predict outcomes?

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    Davide Capodanno, Corrado Tamburino