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Original research

• Coronary artery disease: Neopterin is associated with plaque inflammation and destabilisation in human coronary atherosclerotic lesions (17 June, 2007)

  T Adachi, T Naruko, A Itoh, R Komatsu, Y Abe, N Shirai, H Yamashita, S Ehara, M Nakagawa, C Kitabayashi, Y Ikura, M Ohsawa, M Yoshiyama, K Haze, M Ueda
• Acute coronary syndromes: Early impact of insulin treatment on mortality for hyperglycaemic patients without known diabetes who present with an acute coronary syndrome (13 May, 2007)

  C Weston, L Walker, J Birkhead
• Acute coronary syndromes: Troponin-I concentration 72 h after myocardial infarction correlates with infarct size and presence of microvascular obstruction (31 May, 2007)

  John F Younger, Sven Plein, Julian Barth, John P Ridgway, Stephen G Ball, John P Greenwood
• Acute coronary syndromes: Relationship of treatment delays and mortality in patients undergoing fibrinolysis and primary percutaneous coronary intervention. The Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (25 June, 2007)

  B Nallamothu, K A A Fox, B M Kennelly, F Van de Werf, J M Gore, P G Steg, C B Granger, O H Dabbous, E Kline-Rogers, K A Eagle
• Interventional cardiology: Randomised comparison of femoral versus radial approach for percutaneous coronary intervention using abciximab in acute myocardial infarction: results of the FARMI Trial (16 July, 2007)

  Camille Brasselet, Sophie Tassan, Pierre Nazeyrollas, Martial Hamon, Damien Metz
• Interventional cardiology: Stent expansion: a combination of delivery balloon underexpansion and acute stent recoil reduces predicted stent diameter irrespective of reference vessel size (4 May, 2007)

  Shahid Aziz, John L Morris, Raphael A Perry, Rodney H Stables
• Epidemiology: Socioeconomic status, pathogen burden and cardiovascular disease risk (8 May, 2007)

  A Steptoe, A Shamaei-Tousi, Å Gylfe, B Henderson, S Bergström, M Marmot
• Diabetes, lipids and metabolism: Abnormal left ventricular longitudinal functional reserve in patients with diabetes mellitus: implication for detecting subclinical myocardial dysfunction using exercise tissue Doppler echocardiography (20 April, 2007)

  Jong-Won Ha, Hyun-Chul Lee, Eun-Seok Kang, Chul-Min Ahn, Jin-Mi Kim, Jeong-Ah Ahn, Se-Wha Lee, Eui-Young Choi, Se-Joong Rim, Jae K Oh, Namsik Chung
• Diabetes, lipids and metabolism: Improved but still high short- and long-term mortality rates after myocardial infarction in patients with diabetes mellitus: a time-trend report from the Swedish Register of Information and Knowledge about Swedish Heart Intensive Care Admission (19 January, 2007)

  Anna Norhammar, Johan Lindbäck, Lars Rydén, Lars Wallentin, Ulf Stenestrand
• Diabetes, lipids and metabolism: A propensity-matched study of the effect of diabetes on the natural history of heart failure: variations by sex and age (8 May, 2007)

  Ali Ahmed, Inmaculada B Aban, Viola Vaccarino, Donald M Lloyd-Jones, David C Goff, Jiannan Zhao, Thomas E Love, Christine Ritchie, Fernando Ovalle, Giovanni Gambassi, Louis J Dell’Italia
• Cardiovascular surgery: Clinical value of multidetector CT coronary angiography as a preoperative screening test before non-coronary cardiac surgery (12 December, 2006)

  V Russo, V Gostoli, L Lovato, M Montalti, A Marzocchi, G Gavelli, A Branzi, R Di Bartolomeo, R Fattori
• Congenital heart disease: Adult patients with Eisenmenger syndrome report flying safely on commercial airlines (12 December, 2006)

  Craig S Broberg, Anselm Uebing, Linda Cuomo, Swee Lay Thein, Michael G Papadopoulos, Michael A Gatzoulis
• Congenital heart disease: Right ventricular hypertrophy and diastolic dysfunction in arterial switch patients without pulmonary artery stenosis (3 February, 2007)

  H B Grotenhuis, L J M Kroft, S G C van Elderen, J J M Westenberg, J Doornbos, M G Hazekamp, H W Vliegen, J Ottenkamp, A de Roos
• Basic research: Coronary artery overexpansion increases neointimal hyperplasia after stent placement in a porcine model (16 July, 2007)

  Robert J Russo, Patricia D Silva, Mark Yeager