Table of contents

Cardiovascular medicine

• Obesity and overweight in relation to disease-specific mortality in men with and without existing coronary heart disease in London: the original Whitehall study (3 November, 2005)

  G D Batty, M J Shipley, R J Jarrett, E Breeze, M G Marmot, G Davey Smith
• Exercise effects on cardiac size and left ventricular diastolic function: relationships to changes in fitness, fatness, blood pressure and insulin resistance (24 November, 2005)

  K J Stewart, P Ouyang, A C Bacher, S Lima, E P Shapiro
• A simple tool to predict exercise capacity of obese patients with ischaemic heart disease (9 December, 2005)

  L A Gondoni, A Liuzzi, A M Titon, O Taronna, F Nibbio, P Ferrari, G Leonetti
• Validity of the GRACE (Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events) acute coronary syndrome prediction model for six month post-discharge death in an independent data set (30 December, 2005)

  P J Bradshaw, D T Ko, A M Newman, L R Donovan, J V Tu
• Major impact of admission glycaemia on 30 day and one year mortality in non-diabetic patients admitted for myocardial infarction: results from the nationwide French USIC 2000 study (9 December, 2005)

  Z Kadri, N Danchin, L Vaur, Y Cottin, P Guéret, M Zeller, J-M Lablanche, D Blanchard, G Hanania, N Genès, J-P Cambou
• B-type natriuretic peptide can detect silent myocardial ischaemia in asymptomatic type 2 diabetes (9 December, 2005)

  B S Rana, J I Davies, M M Band, S D Pringle, A Morris, A D Struthers
• Safety and exercise tolerance of acute high altitude exposure (3454 m) among patients with coronary artery disease (9 December, 2005)

  J-P Schmid, M Noveanu, R Gaillet, G Hellige, A Wahl, H Saner
• Systemic sclerosis associated pulmonary hypertension: improved survival in the current era (9 December, 2005)

  M H Williams, C Das, C E Handler, M R Akram, J Davar, C P Denton, C J Smith, C M Black, J G Coghlan
• Usefulness of transoesophageal echocardiography before cardioversion in patients with atrial fibrillation and different anticoagulant regimens (11 November, 2005)

  A Maltagliati, C A Galli, G Tamborini, A Calligaris, E Doria, R Salehi, M Pepi