These articles scored the most hits on Heart's web site during May 2002

1 Contemporary criteria for the selection of patients for percutaneous balloon mitral valvulopathy

BD Prendergast, TRD Shaw, B Iung, A Vahanian, DB Northridge

May 2002;87:401–4.(Editorial)

2 Joint British recommendations on prevention of coronary heart disease in clinical practice

December 1998;80(suppl 2):S1–29.

3 Choice of heart valve prosthesis

P Bloomfield

June 2002;87:583–9. (Education in Heart)

4 The medical management of valvar heart disease

NA Boon, P Bloomfield

April 2002;87:395–400. (Education in Heart)

5 Lipid lowering in patients with diabetes mellitus: what coronary heart disease risk threshold should we use?

K Rowland Yeo, WW Yeo

May 2002;87:423–7. (Cardiovascular medicine)

6 Meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of the effectiveness of antiarrhythmic agents at promoting sinus rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation

G Nichol, F McAlister, B Pham, A Laupacis, B Shea, M Green, A Tang, G Wells

June 2002;87:535–43. (Cardiovascular medicine)

7 Genetic polymorphisms in the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system associated with expression of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a study of five polymorphic genes in a family with a disease causing mutation in the myosin binding protein C gene

JR Ortlepp, HP Vosberg, S Reith, F Ohme, NG Mahon, D Schroder, HG Klues, P Hanrath, WJ McKenna

March 2002;87:270–5. (Basic research)

8 Troponin T concentrations 72 hours after myocardial infarction as a serological estimate of infarct size

M Licka, R Zimmermann, J Zehelein, TJ Dengler, HA Katus, W Kubler

June 2002;87:520–4. (Cardiovascular medicine)

9 Apoptosis in the cardiovascular system

MR Bennett

May 2002;87:480-7. (Education in Heart)

10 Inflammation in acute coronary syndromes

NT Mulvihill, JB Foley

March 2002;87:201–4.

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