Table of contents

Cardiovascular medicine

• Cost of cardiovascular diseases in the United Kingdom (15 May, 2006)

  R Luengo-Fernández, J Leal, A Gray, S Petersen, M Rayner
• Role of regional mechanical dyssynchrony as a determinant of functional mitral regurgitation in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction (31 January, 2006)

  E Agricola, M Oppizzi, M Galderisi, M Pisani, A Meris, C Pappone, A Margonato
• Cardiovascular disease risk assessment in older women: can we improve on Framingham? British Women’s Heart and Health prospective cohort study (17 March, 2006)

  M May, D A Lawlor, P Brindle, R Patel, S Ebrahim
• Effect of aggressive risk factor modification on cardiac events and myocardial ischaemia in patients with chronic kidney disease (10 April, 2006)

  D J Rakhit, T H Marwick, K A Armstrong, D W Johnson, R Leano, N M Isbel
• Metabolic syndrome and risk for heart failure in middle-aged men (22 May, 2006)

  E Ingelsson, J Ärnlöv, L Lind, J Sundström
• Relationship between myocardial perfusion and dysfunction in diabetic cardiomyopathy: a study of quantitative contrast echocardiography and strain rate imaging (10 April, 2006)

  S Moir, L Hanekom, Z-Y Fang, B Haluska, C Wong, M Burgess, T H Marwick
• Circulating adiponectin concentrations in patients with congestive heart failure (18 April, 2006)

  J George, S Patal, D Wexler, Y Sharabi, E Peleg, Y Kamari, E Grossman, D Sheps, G Keren, A Roth
• Excessive breathlessness in patients with diastolic heart failure (18 April, 2006)

  K K A Witte, N P Nikitin, J G F Cleland, A L Clark
• A history of arterial hypertension does not affect mortality in patients hospitalised with congestive heart failure (18 April, 2006)

  F Gustafsson, C Torp-Pedersen, M Seibæk, H Burchardt, O Wendelboe Nielsen, L Køber
• Effects of torasemide on cardiac sympathetic nerve activity and left ventricular remodelling in patients with congestive heart failure (18 April, 2006)

  S Kasama, T Toyama, T Hatori, H Sumino, H Kumakura, Y Takayama, S Ichikawa, T Suzuki, M Kurabayashi
• Glucose and haemoglobin in the assessment of prognosis after first hospitalisation for heart failure (18 April, 2006)

  J D Newton, I B Squire
• Delayed hyperenhancement in magnetic resonance imaging of left ventricular hypertrophy caused by aortic stenosis and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: visualisation of focal fibrosis (10 April, 2006)

  K Debl, B Djavidani, S Buchner, C Lipke, W Nitz, S Feuerbach, G Riegger, A Luchner
• Tissue Doppler velocity is superior to displacement and strain mapping in predicting left ventricular reverse remodelling response after cardiac resynchronisation therapy (18 April, 2006)

  C-M Yu, Q Zhang, Y-S Chan, C-K Chan, G W K Yip, L C C Kum, E B Wu, P-W Lee, Y-Y Lam, S Chan, J W-H Fung
• Infective endocarditis in a Finnish teaching hospital: a study on 326 episodes treated during 1980–2004 (27 April, 2006) Free

  M Heiro, H Helenius, S Mäkilä, U Hohenthal, T Savunen, E Engblom, J Nikoskelainen, P Kotilainen
• APOE alleles are not associated with calcific aortic stenosis (10 April, 2006)

  J R Ortlepp, M Pillich, V Mevissen, C Krantz, M Kimmel, R Autschbach, G Langebartels, J Erdmann, R Hoffmann, K Zerres
• Splenectomy: a strong risk factor for pulmonary hypertension in patients with thalassaemia (18 April, 2006)

  A Phrommintikul, A Sukonthasarn, R Kanjanavanit, W Nawarawong