Table of contents

Original articles

• Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: Statin use is associated with lower risk of atrial fibrillation in women with coronary disease: the HERS trial (28 January, 2009) Free

  C N Pellegrini, E Vittinghoff, F Lin, S B Hulley, G M Marcus
• Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: Device complications and inappropriate implantable cardioverter defibrillator shocks in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (11 March, 2009)

  G Lin, R A Nishimura, B J Gersh, D Phil, S R Ommen, M J Ackerman, P A Brady
• Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: Risk factors and time delay associated with cardiac device infections: Leiden device registry (26 November, 2008)

  J C Lekkerkerker, C van Nieuwkoop, S A Trines, J G van der Bom, A Bernards, E T van de Velde, M Bootsma, K Zeppenfeld, J W Jukema, J-W Borleffs, M J Schalij, L van Erven
• Acute coronary syndromes: Prognostic implications of hypoglycaemic episodes during hospitalisation for myocardial infarction in patients with type 2 diabetes: a report from the DIGAMI 2 trial (24 November, 2008)

  L G Mellbin, K Malmberg, A Waldenström, H Wedel, L Rydén, for the DIGAMI 2 investigators
• Acute coronary syndromes: Unrecognised myocardial infarction in subjects at high vascular risk: prevalence and determinants (12 February, 2009)

  M F L Meijs, M L Bots, M J M Cramer, E-J A Vonken, B K Velthuis, Y van der Graaf, F L Visseren, W P Th M Mali, P A Doevendans, on behalf of the SMART Study group
• Congenital heart disease: Left ventricular long axis dysfunction in adults with “corrected” aortic coarctation is related to an older age at intervention and increased aortic stiffness (18 December, 2008)

  Y-Y Lam, M J Mullen, M G Kaya, M A Gatzoulis, W Li, M Y Henein
• Epidemiology: Coronary heart disease epidemics: not all the same (18 December, 2008)

  M Mirzaei, A S Truswell, R Taylor, S R Leeder
• Epidemiology: Risk of death after first admission for cardiovascular diseases by country of birth in The Netherlands: a nationwide record-linked retrospective cohort study (22 January, 2009)

  C Agyemang, I Vaartjes, M L Bots, I G van Valkengoed, J S de Munter, A de Bruin, M Berger-van Sijl, J B Reitsma, K Stronks
• Pulmonary hypertension: Discordance between microneurographic and heart-rate spectral indices of sympathetic activity in pulmonary arterial hypertension (16 January, 2009)

  C L McGowan, J S Swiston, C F Notarius, S Mak, B L Morris, P E Picton, J T Granton, J S Floras