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Original articles

Obesity and the heart

• Original article: Altered cardiovascular autonomic regulation in overweight children engaged in regular physical activity (19 October, 2012)

  Daniela Lucini, Gaia de Giacomi, Fabio Tosi, Mara Malacarne, Stefano Respizzi, Massimo Pagani

Biomarkers and heart disease

• Original article: High-sensitivity cardiac troponin T levels are increased in stable COPD (12 January, 2013)

  Anke M C Neukamm, Arne Didrik Høiseth, Tor-Arne Hagve, Vidar Søyseth, Torbjørn Omland
• Original article: MR-proANP and MR-proADM for risk stratification of patients with acute chest pain (4 December, 2012)

  Stergios Tzikas, Till Keller, Francisco M Ojeda, Tanja Zeller, Philipp S Wild, Edith Lubos, Jan Kunde, Stephan Baldus, Christoph Bickel, Karl J Lackner, Thomas F Münzel, Stefan Blankenberg

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: The evolving epidemiology of valvular aortic stenosis. The Tromsø Study (2 September, 2012) Free

  Gry Wisthus Eveborn, Henrik Schirmer, Geir Heggelund, Per Lunde, Knut Rasmussen

Cardiomyopathy

• Original article: Increased left ventricular trabeculation in highly trained athletes: do we need more stringent criteria for the diagnosis of left ventricular non-compaction in athletes? (7 February, 2013)

  Sabiha Gati, Navin Chandra, Rachel Louise Bennett, Matt Reed, Gaelle Kervio, Vasileios F Panoulas, Saqib Ghani, Nabeel Sheikh, Abbas Zaidi, Matthew Wilson, Michael Papadakis, Francois Carré, Sanjay Sharma

Epidemiology

• Original article: Trends in cardiovascular mortality and hospitalisations, and potential contribution of inhospital case-fatality rates to changes in national mortality in the Czech Republic 1994–2009 (6 February, 2013)

  Hana Davídkovová, Jan Kyselý, Bohumír Kříž, Petr Vojtíšek, Martin Bobák