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Original research

• Sirolimus and paclitaxel provoke different vascular pathological responses after local delivery in a murine model for restenosis on underlying atherosclerotic arteries (20 April, 2007)

  Nuno M M Pires, Daniel Eefting, Margreet R de Vries, Paul H A Quax, J Wouter Jukema
• Association of coronary plaque composition and arterial remodelling: a virtual histology analysis by intravascular ultrasound (7 November, 2006)

  Jean-François Surmely, Kenya Nasu, Hiroshi Fujita, Mitsuyasu Terashima, Tetsuo Matsubara, Etsuo Tsuchikane, Mariko Ehara, Yoshihisa Kinoshita, Yoshihiro Takeda, Nobuyoshi Tanaka, Osama Katoh, Takahiko Suzuki
• Comparison of intensive and low-dose atorvastatin therapy in the reduction of carotid intimal–medial thickness in patients with coronary heart disease (7 March, 2007)

  Cheuk-Man Yu, Qing Zhang, Linda Lam, Hong Lin, Shun-Ling Kong, Wilson Chan, Jeffrey Wing-Hong Fung, Kenny K K Cheng, Iris Hiu-Shuen Chan, Stephen Wai-Luen Lee, John E Sanderson, Christopher Wai-Kei Lam
• Heart rate and microinflammation in men: a relevant atherothrombotic link (19 January, 2007)

  O Rogowski, I Shapira, A Shirom, S Melamed, S Toker, S Berliner
• Statins in elderly patients with acute coronary syndrome: an analysis of dose and class effects in typical practice (7 March, 2007)

  Niteesh K Choudhry, Raisa Levin, Wolfgang C Winkelmayer
• The significance of circulating levels of both cardiac troponin I and high-sensitivity C reactive protein for the prediction of intravenous thrombolysis outcome in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (7 March, 2007)

  S G Foussas, M N Zairis, S S Makrygiannis, S J Manousakis, F A Anastassiadis, C S Apostolatos, N G Patsourakos, M P Glyptis, J K Papadopoulos, D C Xenos, E N Adamopoulou, C D Olympios, S K Argyrakis
• Variability of NT-proBNP plasma and urine levels in patients with stable heart failure: a 2-year follow-up study (8 May, 2007)

  Raquel Cortés, Miguel Rivera, Antonio Salvador, Vicente Bertomeu, Fernando García de Burgos, Esther Roselló-Lletí, Manuel Portolés, Rafael Payá, Luis Martínez-Dolz, Vicente Climent
• Improving end-of-life care for patients with chronic heart failure: “Let’s hope it’ll get better, when I know in my heart of hearts it won’t” (19 February, 2007) Free

  Lucy Selman, Richard Harding, Teresa Beynon, Fiona Hodson, Elaine Coady, Caroline Hazeldine, Michael Walton, Louise Gibbs, Irene J Higginson
• Effects of metoprolol and carvedilol on pre-existing and new onset diabetes in patients with chronic heart failure: data from the Carvedilol Or Metoprolol European Trial (COMET) (19 January, 2007)

  Christian Torp-Pedersen, Marco Metra, Andrew Charlesworth, Phillip Spark, Mary Ann Lukas, Philip A Poole-Wilson, Karl Swedberg, John G F Cleland, Andrea Di Lenarda, Willem J Remme, Armin Scherhag
• Long-term safety, tolerability and efficacy of bosentan in adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with congenital heart disease (16 July, 2007)

  Gerhard-Paul Diller, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Mehmet G Kaya, Carl Harries, Anselm Uebing, Wei Li, Evdokia Koltsida, J Simon R Gibbs, Michael A Gatzoulis