These articles scored the most hits on Heart’s web site during September 2002

1 Treatment of atrial fibrillation

Y Blaauw, IC Van Gelder, HJGM Crijns

October 2002;88:432–7. (Education in Heart)

2 Myocardial infarction redefined: the new ACC/ESC definition, based on cardiac troponin, increases the apparent incidence of infarction

JL Ferguson, GJ Beckett, M Stoddart, SW Walker, KAA Fox

October 2002;88:343–7. (Cardiovascular medicine)

3 Acute myocardial infarction: reperfusion treatment

F Ribichini, W Wijns

September 2002;88;298–305. (Education in Heart)

4 Role of echocardiography in acute coronary syndromes

SC Greaves

October 2002;88:419–25. (Education in Heart)

5 Cardiovascular and coronary risk estimation in hypertension management

EJ Wallis, LE Ramsay, PR Jackson

September 2002;88:306–12. (Education in Heart)

6 Antiplatelet treatment in unstable angina: aspirin, clopidogrel, glycoprotein IIb/IIIa antagonist, or all three?

SA Harding, NA Boon, AD Flapan

July 2002;88:11–14. (Viewpoint)

7 Sudden death in children and adolescents

C Wren

October 2002;88:426–31. (Education in Heart)

8 Changing the diagnostic criteria for myocardial infarction in patients with a suspected heart attack affects the measurement of 30 day mortality but not long term survival

C Packham, D Gray, C Weston, A Large, P Silcocks, J Hampton

October 2002;88:337–42. (Cardiovascular medicine)

9 Adherence to statin treatment and readmission of patients after myocardial infarction: a six year follow up study

L Wei, J Wang, P Thompson, S Wong, AD Struthers, TM MacDonald

September 2002;88:229–33. (Cardiovascular medicine)

10 Clinical outcomes of patients with diabetes mellitus and acute myocardial infarction treated with primary angioplasty or fibrinolysis

LF Hsu, KH Mak, KW Lau, LL Sim, C Chan, TH Koh, SC Chuah, R Kam, ZP Ding, WS Teo, YL Lim

September 2002;88:260–5. (Interventional cardiology and surgery)

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