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These articles scored the most hits on Heart’s website during September 2003

1 Atrial fibrillation: classification, pathophysiology, mechanisms and drug treatment

V Markides, R J Schilling

August 2003;89:939–43. (Education in Heart)

2 Inflammatory and thrombotic mechanisms in coronary atherosclerosis

D Tousoulis, G Davies, C Stefanadis, P Toutouzas, J A Ambrose

September 2003;89:993–7. (Review)

3 Basic aspects of plaque vulnerability

A Lafont

October 2003;89:1262–7. (Education in Heart)

4 Left ventricular remodelling after myocardial infarction: importance of residual myocardial viability and ischaemia

C A Visser

October 2003;89:1121–2. (Editorial)

5 Plaque stabilisation in acute coronary syndromes: clinical considerations

A D Timmis

October 2003;89:1268–72. (Education in Heart)

6 Antiplatelet treatment in stable coronary artery disease

C J Knight

October 2003;89:1273–78. (Education in Heart)

7 Practical aspects of the management of pericardial disease

B Maisch, A D Ristic

September 2003;89:1096–103. (Education in Heart)

8 Cardiovascular malformations in infants of diabetic mothers

C Wren, G Birrell, G Hawthorne

October 2003;89:1217–20. (Congenital heart disease)

9 Off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery: the incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation

R A Archbold, N P Curzen

October 2003;89:1134–7. (Review)

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

December 2001, 1998;80:1–29.

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