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• Patterns and costs of hospital care for coronary heart disease related and not related to diabetes (1 December, 1997)

  C J Currie, C L Morgan, J R Peters
• Asian Indians, coronary artery disease, and physical exercise (1 December, 1997)

  J Dhawan, C L Bray
• Prevalence, detection, and management of cardiovascular risk factors in different ethnic groups in south London (1 December, 1997)

  Francesco P Cappuccio, Derek G Cook, Richard W Atkinson, Pasquale Strazzullo
• Atrial fibrillation is associated with a lower exercise capacity in male chronic heart failure patients (1 December, 1997)

  K Pardaens, J Van Cleemput, J Vanhaecke, R H Fagard
• Exercise capacity in chronic heart failure is related to the aetiology of heart disease (1 December, 1997)

  Andrew L Clark, Derek Harrington, Tuan Peng Chua, Andrew J S Coats
• Comparison of the long term prognostic value of peak exercise oxygen pulse and peak oxygen uptake in patients with chronic heart failure (1 December, 1997)

  A Cohen-Solal, P Barnier, F Pessione, P Seknadji, D Logeart, T Laperche, R Gourgon
• Psychological distress among recipients of Björk-Shiley convexo-concave valves: the impact of information (1 December, 1997)

  Marjon Kallewaard, Jo Defauw, Yolanda van der Graaf
• Florid psychopathology in patients receiving shocks from implanted cardioverter-defibrillators (1 December, 1997)

  John P Bourke, Douglas Turkington, Gareth Thomas, Janet M McComb, Margaret Tynan
• Ten year follow up of patients referred for coronary artery bypass grafting from a single district general hospital (1 December, 1997)

  A J Bathgate, J B Irving
• Cardiopulmonary interactions in healthy children and children after simple cardiac surgery: the effects of positive and negative pressure ventilation (1 December, 1997)

  Lara S Shekerdemian, Andrew Bush, Christopher Lincoln, Darryl F Shore, Andy J Petros, Andrew N Redington
• Brain natriuretic peptide is stable in whole blood and can be measured using a simple rapid assay: implications for clinical practice (1 December, 1997)

  David R Murdoch, John Byrne, James J Morton, Theresa A McDonagh, Stephen D Robb, Suzanne Clements, Ian Ford, John J V McMurray, Henry J Dargie
• Interleukin 8 released after acute myocardial infarction is mainly bound to erythrocytes (1 December, 1997)

  Robbert J de Winter, Annemieke Manten, Ype P de Jong, Rob Adams, Sander J H van Deventer, Kong I Lie
• Effect of adopting a new histological grading system of acute rejection after heart transplantation (1 December, 1997)

  Aggie H Balk, Pieter E Zondervan, Peter van der Meer, Teun van Gelder, Bas Mochtar, Maarten L Simoons, Willem Weimar