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Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• Comparison of glucose-insulin-potassium and insulin-glucose as adjunctive therapy in acute myocardial infarction: a contemporary meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (11 October, 2010)

  Yun-Tao Zhao, Cui-Lian Weng, Mu-Lei Chen, Kui-Bao Li, Yong-Gui Ge, Xiang-Min Lin, Wen-Shu Zhao, Jin Chen, Lin Zhang, Jun-Xiang Yin, Xin-Chun Yang

Valvular heart disease

• Impact of prosthesis–patient mismatch on mitral regurgitation after aortic valve replacement (11 October, 2010)

  P Unger, J Magne, F Vanden Eynden, D Plein, G Van Camp, A Pasquet, B Cosyns, C Dedobbeleer, P Lancellotti
• What is the impact of providing a transcatheter aortic valve implantation service on conventional aortic valve surgical activity: patient risk factors and outcomes in the first 2 years (11 October, 2010)

  S W Grant, M P Devbhandari, A D Grayson, I Dimarakis, I Kadir, D M T Saravanan, R D Levy, S G Ray, B Bridgewater

Cardiovascular epidemiology

• Long work hours and physical fitness: 30-year risk of ischaemic heart disease and all-cause mortality among middle-aged Caucasian men (6 September, 2010)

  Andreas Holtermann, Ole Steen Mortensen, Hermann Burr, Karen Søgaard, Finn Gyntelberg, Poul Suadicani
• Effects of depressive symptoms and coronary heart disease and their interactive associations on mortality in middle-aged adults: the Whitehall II cohort study (15 September, 2010)

  Hermann Nabi, Martin J Shipley, Jussi Vahtera, Martica Hall, Jyrki Korkeila, Michael G Marmot, Mika Kivimäki, Archana Singh-Manoux

Congenital heart disease

• Systematic survey of variants in TBX1 in non-syndromic tetralogy of Fallot identifies a novel 57 base pair deletion that reduces transcriptional activity but finds no evidence for association with common variants

  (11 October, 2010)

  Helen R Griffin, Ana Töpf, Elise Glen, Christiane Zweier, A Graham Stuart, Jonathan Parsons, Ian Peart, John Deanfield, John O'Sullivan, Anita Rauch, Peter Scambler, John Burn, Heather J Cordell, Bernard Keavney, Judith A Goodship
• Cardiac outcomes after pregnancy in women with congenital heart disease (11 October, 2010) Free

  Olga H Balint, Samuel C Siu, Jennifer Mason, Jasmine Grewal, Rachel Wald, Erwin N Oechslin, Brigitte Kovacs, Mathew Sermer, Jack M Colman, Candice K Silversides