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Original articles

• Valvular heart disease: Myocardial deformation in aortic valve stenosis: relation to left ventricular geometry (25 August, 2009)

  Dana Cramariuc, Eva Gerdts, Einar Skulstad Davidsen, Leidulf Segadal, Knut Matre
• Valvular heart disease: Preoperative 6-minute walk test adds prognostic information to Euroscore in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement (28 June, 2009)

  D P de Arenaza, J Pepper, B Lees, F Rubinstein, F Nugara, M Roughton, M Jasinski, O Bazzino, M Flather
• Valvular heart disease: Predicting outcome after valve replacement (4 June, 2009)

  H Rimington, J Weinman, J B Chambers
• Epidemiology: Alcohol intake and the risk of coronary heart disease in the Spanish EPIC cohort study (19 November, 2009) Free

  L Arriola, P Martinez-Camblor, N Larrañaga, M Basterretxea, P Amiano, C Moreno-Iribas, R Carracedo, A Agudo, E Ardanaz, A Barricarte, G Buckland, Lluis Cirera, M D Chirlaque, C Martinez, E Molina, C Navarro, J R Quirós, L Rodriguez, M J Sanchez, M J Tormo, C A González, M Dorronsoro
• Epidemiology: Association between anthropometric obesity measures and coronary artery disease: a cross-sectional survey of 16 657 subjects from 444 Polish cities (2 August, 2009)

  B M Kaess, J Jozwiak, M Mastej, W Lukas, W Grzeszczak, A Windak, W Piwowarska, A Tykarski, E Konduracka, K Rygiel, A Manasar, N J Samani, M Tomaszewski
• Epidemiology: Anthropometric assessment of abdominal obesity and coronary heart disease risk in men: the PRIME study (28 June, 2009)

  E Gruson, M Montaye, F Kee, A Wagner, A Bingham, J-B Ruidavets, B Haas, A Evans, J Ferrières, P P Ducimetière, P Amouyel, J Dallongeville
• Endothelial function: Assessment of vascular function: flow-mediated constriction complements the information of flow-mediated dilatation (26 October, 2009)

  T Gori, S Grotti, S Dragoni, M Lisi, G Di Stolfo, S Sonnati, M Fineschi, J D Parker