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Original articles

• Cardiovascular surgery: Remote ischaemic preconditioning reduces myocardial injury in patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cold-blood cardioplegia: a randomised controlled trial (8 June, 2009) Free

  V Venugopal, D J Hausenloy, A Ludman, C Di Salvo, S Kolvekar, J Yap, D Lawrence, J Bognolo, D M Yellon
• Interventional cardiology: Distribution of angiographic measures of restenosis after drug-eluting stent implantation (28 May, 2009)

  R A Byrne, S Eberle, A Kastrati, A Dibra, G Ndrepepa, R Iijima, J Mehilli, A Schömig
• Interventional cardiology: Dual antiplatelet therapy for more than 12 months after percutaneous coronary intervention: insights from the Guthrie PCI Registry (22 June, 2009)

  K J Harjai, C Shenoy, P Orshaw, J Boura
• Interventional cardiology: Obesity and cardiovascular thrombotic events in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents (9 July, 2009)

  Z J Wang, Y J Zhou, Y Y Liu, M Yu, D M Shi, Y X Zhao, Y H Guo, W J Cheng, B Nie, H L Ge, D A Jia, S W Yang, Z X Yan
• Coronary artery disease: Determinants and outcomes of coronary angiography after non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction. A cohort study of the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) (8 June, 2009)

  J S Birkhead, C F M Weston, R Chen
• Epidemiology: Childhood dairy and calcium intake and cardiovascular mortality in adulthood: 65-year follow-up of the Boyd Orr cohort (29 July, 2009)

  J C van der Pols, D Gunnell, G M Williams, J M P Holly, C Bain, R M Martin
• Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing: Multislice computed tomography coronary angiography for risk stratification in patients with an intermediate pretest likelihood (5 July, 2009)

  J M van Werkhoven, O Gaemperli, J D Schuijf, J W Jukema, L J Kroft, S Leschka, H Alkadhi, I Valenta, G Pundziute, A de Roos, E E van der Wall, P A Kaufmann, J J Bax
• Acute coronary syndromes: Primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: changing patterns of vascular access, radial versus femoral artery (12 July, 2009)

  S L Hetherington, Z Adam, R Morley, M A de Belder, J A Hall, D F Muir, A G C Sutton, N Swanson, R A Wright
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Development and validation of a clinical index to predict survival after cardiac resynchronisation therapy (9 July, 2009)

  F Leyva, P W X Foley, B Stegemann, J A Ward, L L Ng, M P Frenneaux, F Regoli, R E A Smith, A Auricchio