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Original articles

Impact of national policy

• Original article: Fatal venous thromboembolism associated with hospital admission: a cohort study to assess the impact of a national risk assessment target (15 September, 2013) Free

  Will Lester, Nick Freemantle, Irena Begaj, Daniel Ray, John Wood, Domenico Pagano

Coronary revascularisation

• Original article: Improvement in coronary haemodynamics after percutaneous coronary intervention: assessment using instantaneous wave-free ratio (18 September, 2013)

  Sukhjinder S Nijjer, Sayan Sen, Ricardo Petraco, Rajesh Sachdeva, Florim Cuculi, Javier Escaned, Christopher Broyd, Nicolas Foin, Nearchos Hadjiloizou, Rodney A Foale, Iqbal Malik, Ghada W Mikhail, Amarjit S Sethi, Mahmud Al-Bustami, Raffi R Kaprielian, Masood A Khan, Christopher S Baker, Michael F Bellamy, Alun D Hughes, Jamil Mayet, Rajesh K Kharbanda, Carlo Di Mario, Justin E Davies
• Original article: Effect of myocardial revascularisation on left ventricular systolic function in patients with and without viable myocardium: should non-viable segments be revascularised? (1 August, 2013)

  Alja Vlahović Stipac, Ivan Stanković, Radosav Vidaković, Biljana Putniković, Ivan Ilić, Biljana Miličić, Aleksandar N Nešković

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Resting heart rate and physical activity as risk factors for lone atrial fibrillation: a prospective study of 309 540 men and women (8 June, 2013)

  Dag S Thelle, Randi Selmer, Knut Gjesdal, Solveig Sakshaug, Astanand Jugessur, Sidsel Graff-Iversen, Aage Tverdal, Wenche Nystad

Genetics of heart disease

• Original article: The association between plasma homocysteine and coronary heart disease is modified by the MTHFR 677C>T polymorphism (7 September, 2013)

  K Mehlig, K Leander, U de Faire, F Nyberg, C Berg, A Rosengren, L Björck, H Zetterberg, K Blennow, G Tognon, K Torén, E Strandhagen, L Lissner, D Thelle

Epidemiology

• Original article: Ethnic differences in the cost-effectiveness of targeted and mass screening for high cardiovascular risk in the UK: cross-sectional study (3 October, 2013)

  Jessica Baker, Richard Mitchell, Kenny Lawson, Jill Pell