Table of contents

Cardiovascular medicine

• Decline in incidence of hospitalisation for acute myocardial infarction in the Netherlands from 1995 to 2000 (29 April, 2005)

  H L Koek, A de Bruin, A Gast, E Gevers, J W P F Kardaun, J B Reitsma, D E Grobbee, M L Bots
• Effect of α linolenic acid on cardiovascular risk markers: a systematic review (12 May, 2005)

  E Wendland, A Farmer, P Glasziou, A Neil
• Phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibition does not reverse endothelial dysfunction in patients with coronary heart disease (29 April, 2005)

  S D Robinson, C A Ludlam, N A Boon, D E Newby
• Favourable long term prognosis in stable angina pectoris: an extended follow up of the angina prognosis study in Stockholm (APSIS) (10 June, 2005)

  P Hjemdahl, S V Eriksson, C Held, L Forslund, P Näsman, N Rehnqvist
• Identification of patients with evolving coronary syndromes by using statistical models with data from the time of presentation (6 June, 2005)

  R L Kennedy, R F Harrison
• Preimplantation B-type natriuretic peptide concentration is an independent predictor of future appropriate implantable defibrillator therapies (27 May, 2005)

  A Verma, F Kilicaslan, D O Martin, S Minor, R Starling, N F Marrouche, S Almahammed, O M Wazni, S Duggal, R Zuzek, H Yamaji, J Cummings, M K Chung, P J Tchou, A Natale
• Evaluation of survival and ischaemic and thromboembolic event rates in patients with non-valvar atrial fibrillation in the general population when treated and untreated with warfarin (9 May, 2005)

  C J Currie, M Jones, J Goodfellow, P McEwan, C L Morgan, C Emmas, J R Peters
• New quantitative methods for evaluation of dynamic changes in QT interval on 24 hour Holter ECG recordings: QT interval in idiopathic ventricular fibrillation and long QT syndrome (20 May, 2005)

  M Sugao, A Fujiki, M Sakabe, K Nishida, T Tsuneda, J Iwamoto, K Mizumaki, H Inoue
• Impaired coronary and myocardial flow in severe aortic stenosis is associated with increased apoptosis: a transthoracic Doppler and myocardial contrast echocardiography study (20 May, 2005)

  L Galiuto, M Lotrionte, F Crea, A Anselmi, G G L Biondi-Zoccai, F De Giorgio, A Baldi, F Baldi, G Possati, M Gaudino, G W Vetrovec, A Abbate
• Improved quantification of left ventricular mass based on endocardial and epicardial surface detection with real time three dimensional echocardiography (12 May, 2005)

  E G Caiani, C Corsi, L Sugeng, P MacEneaney, L Weinert, V Mor-Avi, R M Lang
• Effect of inhaled sulphur dioxide and carbon particles on heart rate variability and markers of inflammation and coagulation in human subjects (27 May, 2005)

  H C Routledge, S Manney, R M Harrison, J G Ayres, J N Townend
• Alteration of proximal aorta biophysical properties in patients with end stage renal disease (6 April, 2005)

  A P Patrianakos, D N Karakitsos, E de Groot, F I Parthenakis, E K Daphnis, P E Vardas