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Original articles

Heart failure

• Impact of heart failure with normal ejection fraction on the occurrence of ischaemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (2 September, 2012)

  Sun-Joo Jang, Min-Seok Kim, Hee-Jung Park, Seungbong Han, Duk-Hyun Kang, Jae-Kwan Song, Seong-Wook Park, Seung-Jung Park, Jae-Joong Kim

Secondary prevention of coronary disease

• Mortality risk of triglyceride levels in patients with coronary artery disease (26 September, 2012) Free

  Takatoshi Kasai, Katsumi Miyauchi, Naotake Yanagisawa, Kan Kajimoto, Naozumi Kubota, Manabu Ogita, Shuta Tsuboi, Atsushi Amano, Hiroyuki Daida

Endothelial function

• Impaired endothelial function in persons with obstructive sleep apnoea: impact of obesity (9 October, 2012)

  Silje K Namtvedt, Jonny Hisdal, Anna Randby, Stefan Agewall, Einar Stranden, Virend K Somers, Helge Røsjø, Torbjørn Omland

Acute coronary syndromes

• Evaluation of the NICE mini-GRACE risk scores for acute myocardial infarction using the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) 2003–2009: National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR) (22 September, 2012)

  Alexander D Simms, Stephanie Reynolds, Karen Pieper, Paul D Baxter, Brian A Cattle, Phillip D Batin, John I Wilson, John E Deanfield, Robert M West, Keith A A Fox, Alistair S Hall, Christopher P Gale

Valvular heart disease

• Differences in performance of five types of aortic valve prostheses: haemodynamic assessment by dobutamine stress echocardiography (15 August, 2012)

  Jeffrey P Khoo, Joan E Davies, Keng Leong Ang, Manuel Galiñanes, Derek T Chin

Basic research

• Vasa vasorum and plaque progression, and responses to atorvastatin in a rabbit model of atherosclerosis: contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging and intravascular ultrasound study (25 October, 2012)

  Jinwei Tian, Sining Hu, Yanli Sun, Huai Yu, Xue Han, Wen Cheng, Xiang Ban, Shaosong Zhang, Bo Yu, Ik-Kyung Jang