Table of contents

Original articles

Cardiovascular pharmacology

• Original article: Effect of short-term NSAID use on echocardiographic parameters in elderly people: a population-based cohort study (20 November, 2010)

  Karen Eline van den Hondel, Mark Eijgelsheim, Rikje Ruiter, Jaqueline C M Witteman, Albert Hofman, Bruno H Ch Stricker

Air pollution

• Original article: Diesel exhaust inhalation does not affect heart rhythm or heart rate variability (20 October, 2010)

  Nicholas L Mills, Alexander E Finlayson, Manuel C Gonzalez, Håkan Törnqvist, Stefan Barath, Elen Vink, Colin Goudie, Jeremy P Langrish, Stefan Söderberg, Nicholas A Boon, Keith A A Fox, Ken Donaldson, Thomas Sandström, Anders Blomberg, David E Newby

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Impact of obesity on the prognostic value of the N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (22 February, 2011)

  L Lorgis, Y Cottin, N Danchin, L Mock, P Sicard, P Buffet, I L'Huillier, C Richard, J C Beer, C Touzery, P Gambert, M Zeller, on behalf of the RICO survey working group

Coronary artery disease

• Original article: Coronary collateral function in the transplanted heart: propensity score matching with coronary artery disease (26 January, 2011)

  Tobias Rutz, Steffen Gloekler, Stefano F de Marchi, Tobias Traupe, Pascal Meier, Parham Eshtehardi, Stéphane Cook, Rolf Vogel, Paul Mohacsi, Christian Seiler

Epidemiology

• Original article: Obesity is associated with fatal coronary heart disease independently of traditional risk factors and deprivation (14 February, 2011)

  Jennifer Logue, Heather M Murray, Paul Welsh, James Shepherd, Chris Packard, Peter Macfarlane, Stuart Cobbe, Ian Ford, Naveed Sattar
• Original article: Coronary heart disease mortality trends in the Netherlands 1972–2007 (30 January, 2011)

  I Vaartjes, M O'Flaherty, D E Grobbee, M L Bots, S Capewell

Heart failure

• Original article: Diverse patterns of longitudinal and radial dyssynchrony in patients with advanced systolic heart failure (30 January, 2011)

  Qing Zhang, Rutger J van Bommel, Yat-Sun Chan, Victoria Delgado, Yujia Liang, Martin J Schalij, Jeroen J Bax, Fang Fang, Gabriel Wai-Kwok Yip, Cheuk-Man Yu

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Dissociated pulmonary vein potentials following antral pulmonary vein isolation for atrial fibrillation: impact on long-term outcome (4 February, 2011)

  Geoffrey Lee, Jonathan M Kalman, Jitendra K Vohra, Andrew Teh, Caroline Medi, Liang-Han Ling, Peter M Kistler