Table of contents

Cardiovascular medicine

• Safe discharge from the cardiac emergency room with a rapid rule-out myocardial infarction protocol using serial CK-MB_mass

  (1 February, 2001)

  R Bholasingh, R J de Winter, J C Fischer, R W Koster, R J G Peters, G T Sanders
• Sex differences in investigation results and treatment in subjects referred for investigation of chest pain (1 February, 2001)

  Y Wong, A Rodwell, S Dawkins, S A Livesey, I A Simpson
• Homocysteine and coronary heart disease in the Caerphilly cohort: a 10 year follow up (1 February, 2001)

  U B Fallon, Y Ben-Shlomo, P Elwood, J B Ubbink, G Davey Smith
• Lewis phenotypes, leisure time physical activity, and risk of ischaemic heart disease: an 11 year follow up in the Copenhagen male study (1 February, 2001)

  H O Hein, P Suadicani, F Gyntelberg
• Prediction of contractile reserve by cyclic variation of integrated backscatter of the myocardium in patients with chronic left ventricular dysfunction (1 February, 2001)

  T Muro, T Ota, H Watanabe, M Teragaki, K Takeuchi, J Yoshikawa
• Importance of rate control or rate regulation for improving exercise capacity and quality of life in patients with permanent atrial fibrillation and normal left ventricular function: a randomised controlled study (1 February, 2001)

  T Levy, S Walker, M Mason, P Spurrell, S Rex, S Brant, V Paul
• Relative contribution of resting haemodynamic profile and lung function to exercise tolerance in male patients with chronic heart failure (1 February, 2001)

  P Faggiano, A D'Aloia, A Gualeni, A Giordano
• Short term effect of continuous positive airway pressure on muscle sympathetic nerve activity in patients with chronic heart failure (1 February, 2001)

  S Heindl, C Dodt, M Krahwinkel, G Hasenfuss, S Andreas