Table of contents

Original articles

• Acute coronary syndromes: Predicting freedom from clinical events in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (25 February, 2009)

  D Brieger, K A A Fox, G FitzGerald, K A Eagle, A Budaj, Á Avezum, C B Granger, B Costa, F A Anderson, Ph G Steg
• Acute coronary syndromes: The joint contribution of sex, age and type of myocardial infarction on hospital mortality following acute myocardial infarction (15 January, 2009) Free

  K P Champney, P D Frederick, H Bueno, S Parashar, J Foody, C N B Merz, J G Canto, J H Lichtman, V Vaccarino
• Coronary artery disease: Non-invasive gene-expression-based detection of well-developed collateral function in individuals with and without coronary artery disease (26 August, 2008)

  P Meier, J Antonov, R Zbinden, A Kuhn, S Zbinden, S Gloekler, M Delorenzi, R Jaggi, C Seiler
• Epidemiology: Does cigarette smoking exacerbate the effect of total cholesterol and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol on the risk of cardiovascular diseases? (5 February, 2009)

  K Nakamura, F Barzi, R Huxley, T-H Lam, I Suh, J Woo, H C Kim, V L Feigin, D Gu, M Woodward
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Elevated glycated haemoglobin is a strong predictor of mortality in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction who are not receiving treatment for diabetes mellitus (19 February, 2009)

  K M Goode, J John, A S Rigby, E S Kilpatrick, S L Atkin, T Bragadeesh, A L Clark, J G F Cleland
• Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: A randomised, controlled study of rate versus rhythm control in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation and heart failure: (CAFÉ-II Study) (11 March, 2009)

  R J Shelton, A L Clark, K Goode, A S Rigby, T Houghton, G C Kaye, J G F Cleland
• Valvular heart disease: Factors associated with development of late significant tricuspid regurgitation after successful left-sided valve surgery (24 March, 2009)

  H Song, M-J Kim, C H Chung, S J Choo, M G Song, J-M Song, D-H Kang, J W Lee, J-K Song