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Original articles

Epidemiology

• Original article: Changes in HDL cholesterol and cardiovascular outcomes after lipid modification therapy (24 March, 2012)

  Kausik Ray, Nick W J Wainwright, Loes Visser, Jacqueline Witteman, Monique Breteler, Baishali Ambegaonkar, Albert Hofman, Bruno Stricker, Nick Wareham, Kay Tee Khaw, Manjinder Sandhu

Biomarkers and heart disease

• Original article: Osteoprotegerin and cardiovascular mortality in patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes (28 February, 2012)

  Ragnhild Røysland, Marc P Bonaca, Torbjørn Omland, Marc Sabatine, Sabina A Murphy, Benjamin M Scirica, Mette Bjerre, Allan Flyvbjerg, Eugene Braunwald, David A Morrow
• Original article: Perioperative myocardial necrosis in patients at high cardiovascular risk undergoing elective non-cardiac surgery (29 April, 2012) Free

  Richard F Alcock, Dorothy Kouzios, Christopher Naoum, Graham S Hillis, David B Brieger

Coronary revascularisation

• Original article: Long-term outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention versus coronary artery bypass grafting for unprotected left main coronary bifurcation disease in the drug-eluting stent era (15 March, 2012)

  Kiyuk Chang, Yoon-Seok Koh, Seung Hee Jeong, Jong-Min Lee, Sung-Ho Her, Hun-Jun Park, Pum-Joon Kim, Young-Hak Kim, Wook-Sung Chung, Hyeon-Woo Yim, Seung-Jung Park, Ki Bae Seung

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Determinants and trajectory of phobic anxiety in patients living with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (29 April, 2012)

  En-Young Nicole Cho, Roland von Känel, Birgit Marten-Mittag, Joram Ronel, Christof Kolb, Jens Baumert, Karl-Heinz Ladwig

Cardiovascular imaging

• Original article: Left atrial minimum volume and reservoir function as correlates of left ventricular diastolic function: impact of left ventricular systolic function (29 April, 2012)

  Cesare Russo, Zhezhen Jin, Shunichi Homma, Tatjana Rundek, Mitchell S V Elkind, Ralph L Sacco, Marco R Di Tullio