Sommario

• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Editorials

  • ·The epidemic of cardiovascular disease in South Asians: Time for action

    Pagina :150-153

    Salim Yusuf, Philip Joseph

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• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·Right heart-pulmonary circulation unit and cardiac resynchronization therapy

    Pagina :1-16

    Fabrizio Ricci, Donato Mele, Francesco Bianco, Valentina Bucciarelli, Raffaele De Caterina, Sabina Gallina

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• Trial Designs

  • ·A randomized clinical trial comparing long-term clopidogrel vs aspirin monotherapy beyond dual antiplatelet therapy after drug-eluting coronary stent implantation: Design and rationale of the Harmonizing Optimal Strategy for Treatment of coronary artery stenosis-Extended Antiplatelet Monotherapy (HOST-EXAM) trial

    Pagina :17-25

    Heesun Lee, Bon-Kwon Koo, Kyung Woo Park, Eun-Seok Shin, Sang Wook Lim, Seung-Woon Rha, Jang-Whan Bae, Dong Woon Jeon, Seok-Kyu Oh, Seung-Ho Hur, Bum-Su Kim, Jung-Hee Lee, Tae-Ho Park, Nam Ho Lee, Hyo-Soo Kim, HOST-EXAM investigators

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  • ·Rehabilitation Therapy in Older Acute Heart Failure Patients (REHAB-HF) trial: Design and rationale

    Pagina :130-139

    Gordon R. Reeves, David J. Whellan, Pamela Duncan, Christopher M. O'Connor, Amy M. Pastva, Joel D. Eggebeen, Leigh Ann Hewston, Timothy M. Morgan, Shelby D. Reed, W. Jack Rejeski, Robert J. Mentz, Paul B. Rosenberg, Dalane W. Kitzman, on behalf of the REHAB-HF Trial Investigators

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  • ·Acute coronary syndrome quality improvement in Kerala (ACS QUIK): Rationale and design for a cluster-randomized stepped-wedge trial

    Pagina :154-160

    Mark D. Huffman, Padinhare Purayil Mohanan, Raji Devarajan, Abigail S. Baldridge, Dimple Kondal, Lihui Zhao, Mumtaj Ali, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Dorairaj Prabhakaran

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  • ·Rationale and design of a cluster-randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of a community health worker–based program for cardiovascular risk factor control in India

    Pagina :161-172

    Aditya Khetan, Raghunandan Purushothaman, Melissa Zullo, Rishab Gupta, Vittal Hejjaji, Sushil Agarwal, Sri Krishna Madan Mohan, Richard Josephson

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Intravascular ultrasound–guided vs angiography-guided drug-eluting stent implantation in complex coronary lesions: Meta-analysis of randomized trials

    Pagina :26-34

    Chirag Bavishi, Partha Sardar, Saurav Chatterjee, Abdur Rahman Khan, Arpit Shah, Sameer Ather, Pedro A. Lemos, Pedro Moreno, Gregg W. Stone

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  • ·Cardiorespiratory fitness and incident heart failure: The Henry Ford ExercIse Testing (FIT) Project

    Pagina :35-42

    Daniel F. Kupsky, Amjad M. Ahmed, Sherif Sakr, Waqas T. Qureshi, Clinton A. Brawner, Michael J. Blaha, Jonathan K. Ehrman, Steven J. Keteyian, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah

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  • ·Results of a curtailed randomized controlled trial, evaluating the efficacy and safety of azimilide in patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators: The SHIELD-2 trial

    Pagina :43-51

    Victoria M. Robinson, David B. Bharucha, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Paul Dorian, Peter R. Kowey, SHIELD-2 Investigators

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  • ·Impact of frailty on mortality after transcatheter aortic valve implantation

    Pagina :52-58

    Pawel Kleczynski, Artur Dziewierz, Maciej Bagienski, Lukasz Rzeszutko, Danuta Sorysz, Jaroslaw Trebacz, Robert Sobczynski, Marek Tomala, Maciej Stapor, Dariusz Dudek

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  • ·Cardioversion and subsequent quality of life and natural history of atrial fibrillation

    Pagina :59-66

    Sean D. Pokorney, Sunghee Kim, Laine Thomas, Gregg C. Fonarow, Peter R. Kowey, Bernard J. Gersh, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Eric D. Peterson, Jonathan P. Piccini, for the Outcomes Registry for Better Informed Treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (ORBIT-AF) Investigators

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  • ·Comparison of diagnostic value using a small, single channel, P-wave centric sternal ECG monitoring patch with a standard 3-lead Holter system over 24 hours

    Pagina :67-73

    Warren M. Smith, Fiona Riddell, Morag Madon, Marye J. Gleva

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  • ·Multimorbidity and the risk of hospitalization and death in atrial fibrillation: A population-based study

    Pagina :74-84

    Alanna M. Chamberlain, Alvaro Alonso, Bernard J. Gersh, Sheila M. Manemann, Jill M. Killian, Susan A. Weston, Margaret Byrne, Véronique L. Roger

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  • ·Left ventricular mass-geometry and silent cerebrovascular disease: The Cardiovascular Abnormalities and Brain Lesions (CABL) study

    Pagina :85-92

    Koki Nakanishi, Zhezhen Jin, Shunichi Homma, Mitchell S.V. Elkind, Tatjana Rundek, Aylin Tugcu, Mitsuhiro Yoshita, Charles DeCarli, Clinton B. Wright, Ralph L. Sacco, Marco R. Di Tullio

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  • ·The safety and efficacy of full- versus reduced-dose betrixaban in the Acute Medically Ill VTE (Venous Thromboembolism) Prevention With Extended-Duration Betrixaban (APEX) trial

    Pagina :93-100

    C. Michael Gibson, Rim Halaby, Serge Korjian, Yazan Daaboul, Douglas F. Arbetter, Megan K. Yee, Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Russel Hull, Adrian F. Hernandez, Shiao-ping Lu, Olga Bandman, Janet M. Leeds, Alex Gold, Robert A. Harrington, Alexander T. Cohen, APEX Investigators

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  • ·Early inpatient calculation of laboratory-based 30-day readmission risk scores empowers clinical risk modification during index hospitalization

    Pagina :101-109

    Benjamin D. Horne, Deborah Budge, Andrew L. Masica, Lucy A. Savitz, José Benuzillo, Gabriela Cantu, Alejandra Bradshaw, Raymond O. McCubrey, Tami L. Bair, Colleen A. Roberts, Kismet D. Rasmusson, Rami Alharethi, Abdallah G. Kfoury, Brent C. James, Donald L. Lappé

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  • ·Population differences in associations of serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism (5HTTLPR) di- and triallelic genotypes with blood pressure and hypertension prevalence

    Pagina :110-122

    Redford B. Williams, George D. Bishop, Brett C. Haberstick, Andrew Smolen, Beverly H. Brummett, Ilene C. Siegler, Michael A. Babyak, Xiaodong Zhang, E. Shyong Tai, Jeannette Jen-Mai Lee, Maudrene Tan, Yik Ying Teo, Shiwei Cai, Edmund Chan, Carolyn Tucker Halpern, Eric A. Whitsel, Shawn Bauldry, Kathleen Mullan Harris

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  • ·Assessment of right ventricular function in acute pulmonary embolism

    Pagina :123-129

    Deisy Barrios, Raquel Morillo, José Luis Lobo, Rosa Nieto, Ana Jaureguizar, Ana K. Portillo, Esther Barbero, Covadonga Fernandez-Golfin, Roger D. Yusen, David Jiménez, PROTECT investigators

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  • ·Anemia is associated with bleeding and mortality, but not stroke, in patients with atrial fibrillation: Insights from the Apixaban for Reduction in Stroke and Other Thromboembolic Events in Atrial Fibrillation (ARISTOTLE) trial

    Pagina :140-149

    B. Daan Westenbrink, Marco Alings, Christopher B. Granger, John H. Alexander, Renato D. Lopes, Elaine M. Hylek, Laine Thomas, Daniel M. Wojdyla, Michael Hanna, Matyas Keltai, P. Gabriel Steg, Raffaele De Caterina, Lars Wallentin, Wiek H. van Gilst

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• Letter to the Editors

  • ·Remote ischemic conditioning in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: Effect of coronary collateral circulation

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    Baohui Lou, Haiyang Gao, Chenghui Zhou

    
  • ·Reply to letter to the editor by Lou et al

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    Dinos Verouhis, Peder Sörensson, Andrey Gourine, Loghman Henareh, Jonas Persson, Nawzad Saleh, Magnus Settergren, Martin Sundqvist, Per Tornvall, Nils Witt, Felix Böhm, John Pernow