Table of contents

Original articles

Secondary prevention of coronary disease

• Original article: High-sensitivity C-reactive protein and clopidogrel treatment in patients at high risk of cardiovascular events: a substudy from the CHARISMA trial (10 March, 2011) Free

  Michael Weber, Deepak L Bhatt, Danielle M Brennan, Graeme J Hankey, Steven R Steinhubl, S Claiborne Johnston, Gilles Montalescot, Koon-Hou Mak, Keith A A Fox, Donald J Easton, Eric J Topol, Christian W Hamm, for the CHARISMA Investigators

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Growth-differentiation factor 15 as predictor of mortality in acute reperfused ST-elevation myocardial infarction: insights from cardiovascular magnetic resonance (22 February, 2011)

  Ingo Eitel, Patrick Blase, Volker Adams, Lysann Hildebrand, Steffen Desch, Gerhard Schuler, Holger Thiele

Platelet function

• Original article: Cilostazol attenuates on-treatment platelet reactivity in patients with CYP2C19 loss of function alleles receiving dual antiplatelet therapy: a genetic substudy of the CILON-T randomised controlled trial (22 February, 2011)

  Kyung Woo Park, Jin Joo Park, Seung-Pyo Lee, Il-Young Oh, Jung-Won Suh, Han-Mo Yang, Hae-Young Lee, Hyun-Jae Kang, Young-Suk Cho, Bon-Kwon Koo, Tae-Jin Youn, In-Ho Chae, Dong-Ju Choi, Byung-Hee Oh, Young-Bae Park, Hyo-Soo Kim

Obesity and the heart

• Original article: Prognostic impact of body mass index in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery (17 February, 2011)

  Shih-Hsien Sung, Tao-Cheng Wu, Cheng-Hsiung Huang, Shing-Jong Lin, Jaw-Wen Chen

Epidemiology

• Original article: Physical activity behaviour and coronary heart disease mortality among South Asian people in the UK: an observational longitudinal study (3 December, 2010)

  Emily D Williams, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Tarani Chandola, Mark Hamer
• Original article: Effects of adherence to guidelines for the control of major cardiovascular risk factors on outcomes in the REduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (REACH) Registry Europe (25 February, 2011)

  Patrice P Cacoub, Uwe Zeymer, Tobias Limbourg, Iris Baumgartner, Don Poldermans, Joachim Röther, Deepak L Bhatt, Philippe Gabriel Steg

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Long-term clinical outcome of extensive pulmonary vein isolation-based catheter ablation therapy in patients with paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation (18 August, 2010)

  Shinsuke Miyazaki, Taishi Kuwahara, Atsushi Kobori, Yoshihide Takahashi, Asumi Takei, Akira Sato, Mitsuaki Isobe, Atsushi Takahashi