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| American Heart Journal |
| Volume 146, Issue 2, Pages 189-376 (August 2003) |
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Table of contents
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Editorial
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Vegetations in endocarditis: big is bad, but is there more to it?
Christopher H. Cabell, Vance G. Fowler
pages 189-190
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Low molecular weight heparins for acute coronary syndrome: tackling the issues head-on
Elliott M. Antman
pages 191-193
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Heart failure and the elderly: disease diversity, data, and delivery of care
Karen P. Alexander, Mimi S. Biswas
pages 194-196
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Are heart rate and blood pressure responses to mental stress predictive of clinical cardiovascular events? The answer varies by coronary artery disease syndrome
David S. Sheps, Edith E. Bragdon
pages 197-198
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Inflammation in atherosclerosis: causal or casual? The need for randomized trials
Karen Meir, Eran Leitersdorf, Charles H. Hennekens
pages 199-202
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Does race matter in heart failure?
Clyde W. Yancy
pages 203-206
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Is geography destiny? Illuminating the survival advantage of elderly patients in New England after acute myocardial infarction
John Z. Ayanian
pages 207-209
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Subclinical diabetes mellitus: is it really“sub-clinical”?
Mary E. Keebler, Darren K. McGuire
pages 210-212
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Percutaneous coronary interventions in patients with renal insufficiency: a high-risk, under-studied cohort
Steven R. Steinhubl
pages 213-214
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Hippocrates and prognosis in heart failure: the challenge of static and dynamic measurements
Hector O Ventura, Mandeep R Mehra
pages 215-217
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Curriculum in cardiology
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Endothelial dysfunction: clinical strategies for treating oxidant stress
Brett E Fenster, Philip S Tsao, Stanley G Rockson
pages 218-226
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Progress in cardiology
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Role of lipid and lipoprotein profiles in risk assessment and therapy
Christie M Ballantyne, Ron C Hoogeveen
pages 227-233
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Trial design
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Danish multicenter randomized study on fibrinolytic therapy versus acute coronary angioplasty in acute myocardial infarction: rationale and design of the danish trial in acute myocardial infarction-2 (DANAMI-2)
Henning Rud Andersen, Torsten Toftegaard Nielsen, Thomas Vesterlund, Peer Grande, Ulrik Abildgaard, Per Thayssen, Flemming Pedersen, Leif Spange Mortensen, DANAMI-2 Investigators
pages 234-241
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Clinical investigations: outcomes, health policy, and managed care
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Regional variation in the treatment and outcomes of myocardial infarction: investigating New England’s advantage
Harlan M Krumholz, Jersey Chen, Saif S Rathore, Yun Wang, Martha J Radford
pages 242-249
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Clinical investigations: congestive heart failure
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Most hospitalized older persons do not meet the enrollment criteria for clinical trials in heart failure
Frederick A Masoudi, Edward P Havranek, Pam Wolfe, Cary P Gross, Saif S Rathore, John F Steiner, Diana L Ordin, Harlan M Krumholz
pages 250-257
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Mortality trends for 23,505 Medicare patients hospitalized with heart failure in Northeast Ohio, 1991 to 1997
David W Baker, Doug Einstadter, Charles Thomas, Randall D Cebul
pages 258-264
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Clinical investigations
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Survival rates are similar between African American and white patients with heart failure
Stephanie H Dunlap, Sirisha Mallemala, Carla A Sueta, Todd A Schwartz, Kirkwood F Adams
pages 265-272
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Clinical investigations: congestive heart failure
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Heart rate and blood pressure responses to mental stress and clinical cardiovascular events in men and women after coronary artery bypass grafting: The Post Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (Post-CABG) biobehavioral study
J.Alan Herd, Byron J Hoogwerf, Franca Barton, Michael L Terrin, Susan M Czajkowski, Ruth Lindquist, Gilles Dupuis
pages 273-279
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Improvement of peripheral endothelial dysfunction by acute vitamin C application: different effects in patients with coronary artery disease, ischemic, and dilated cardiomyopathy
Sandra Erbs, Stephan Gielen, Axel Linke, Sven Möbius-Winkler, Volker Adams, Yves Baither, Gerhard Schuler, Rainer Hambrecht
pages 280-285
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Predictors of mortality in younger and older patients with heart failure and preserved or reduced left ventricular ejection fraction
Roger Kerzner, Brian F Gage, Kenneth E Freedland, Michael W Rich
pages 286-290
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Neurohormones and oxidative stress in nonischemic cardiomyopathy: relationship to survival and the effect of treatment with amlodipine
H.C Wijeysundera, M.S Hansen, E Stanton, A.S Cropp, C Hall, N.S Dhalla, J Ghali, J.L Rouleau, PRAISE II Investigators
pages 291-297
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Serial versus isolated assessment of clinical and instrumental parameters in heart failure: prognostic and therapeutic implications
Francesco Grigioni, Alessandra Barbieri, Gaia Magnani, Luciano Potena, Fabio Coccolo, Giuseppe Boriani, Salvatore Specchia, Samuela Carigi, Annachiara Musuraca, Romano Zannoli, Carlo Magelli, Angelo Branzi
pages 298-303
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Clinical investigations: acute ischemic heart disease
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Enoxaparin versus tinzaparin in non-ST–segment elevation acute coronary syndromes: the EVET trial
Lampros K Michalis, Christos S Katsouras, Nikos Papamichael, Kostas Adamides, Katerina K Naka, John Goudevenos, Dimitris A Sideris
pages 304-310
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Risk factors for “major” embolic events in hospitalized patients with infective endocarditis
Emanuele Durante Mangoni, Luigi E Adinolfi, Marie-Francoise Tripodi, Augusto Andreana, Michele Gambardella, Enrico Ragone, Davide F Precone, Riccardo Utili, Giuseppe Ruggiero
pages 311-316
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Reduction in obesity and coronary risk factors after high caloric exercise training in overweight coronary patients
Patrick D Savage, Martin Brochu, Eric T Poehlman, Philip A Ades
pages 317-323
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Joint effects of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and classic coronary risk factors on risk of acute myocardial infarction
Kunihiro Kinjo, Hiroshi Sato, Hideyuki Sato, Yozo Ohnishi, Eiji Hishida, Daisaku Nakatani, Hiroya Mizuno, Nobuhisa Ohgitani, Mitsuaki Kubo, Takashi Shimazu, Noriyuki Akehi, Hiroshi Takeda, Masatsugu Hori, Osaka Acute Coronary Insufficiency Study (OACIS) Group
pages 324-330
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Risk factors for myocardial infarction in Brazil
Leopoldo S Piegas, Álvaro Avezum, Júlio César R Pereira, João Manoel Rossi Neto, Clóvis Hoepfner, Jorge A Farran, Rui F Ramos, Ari Timerman, José Péricles Esteves, AFIRMAR Study Investigators
pages 331-338
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Clinical investigations: electrophysiology
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Endocardial pacemaker or defibrillator leads with infected vegetations: a single-center experience and consequences of transvenous extraction
Hans K Meier-Ewert, Mary-Ellen Gray, Roy M John
pages 339-344
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Effect of n-3 fatty acids on heart rate variability and baroreflex sensitivity in middle-aged subjects
Anouk Geelen, Peter L Zock, Cees A Swenne, Ingeborg A Brouwer, Evert G Schouten, Martijn B Katan
page 344
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Clinical investigations: interventional cardiology
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Safety of abciximab in patients with chronic renal insufficiency who are undergoing percutaneous coronary interventions
Patricia J.M Best, Ryan Lennon, Bernard J Gersh, Henry H Ting, Charanjit S Rihal, Malcolm R Bell, Charles A Herzog, David R Holmes, Peter B Berger
pages 345-350
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Effect of fasting glucose levels on mortality rate in patients with and without diabetes mellitus and coronary artery disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention
Joseph B Muhlestein, Jeffrey L Anderson, Benjamin D Horne, Farangis Lavasani, Chloe A Allen Maycock, Tami L Bair, Robert R Pearson, John F Carlquist, Intermountain Heart Collaborative Study (IHCS) Group
pages 351-358
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Clinical investigations: imaging and diagnostic testing
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Quantitative clinical assessment of chronic anterior myocardial infarction with delayed enhancement magnetic resonance imaging and QRS scoring
Henrik Engblom, Galen S Wagner, Randy M Setser, Ronald H Selvester, Therese Billgren, Jane M Kasper, Charles Maynard, Olle Pahlm, Håkan Arheden, Richard D White
pages 359-366
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Pioglitazone reduces neointimal tissue proliferation after coronary stent implantation in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: an intravascular ultrasound scanning study
Tsutomu Takagi, Atsushi Yamamuro, Koichi Tamita, Kenji Yamabe, Minako Katayama, Shin Mizoguchi, Motoaki Ibuki, Tomoko Tani, Kazuaki Tanabe, Kunihiko Nagai, Kenichi Shiratori, Shigefumi Morioka, Junichi Yoshikawa
page 366
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Clinical investigations: valvular and congenital heart disease
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Vocal cord paralysis after transcatheter coil embolization of patent ductus arteriosus
Chi Di Liang, Sheung Fat Ko, Song Chei Huang, Chien Fu Huang, Chen Kuan Niu
pages 367-371
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Clinical investigations: surgery
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Prognostic significance of morphometric endomyocardial biopsy analysis in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy
Wolfram Grimm, Sylvia Rudolph, Michael Christ, Sabine Pankuweit, Bernhard Maisch
pages 372-376
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Letter to the editor
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Diabetes mellitus and acute myocardial infarction: more data supporting a poorer microvasculature reperfusion
Raúl Moreno, Rosana Hernández-Antolín, Fernando Alfonso, Carlos Macaya
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Don’t shoot the messenger: the 6-minute walk test is a useful outcome measure in exercise trials
Miles D. Witham, Marion E.T. McMurdo
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Frontmatter
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Editorial board
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