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Original articles

Coronary artery disease

• Original article: Prevalence and non-invasive predictors of left main or three-vessel coronary disease: evidence from a collaborative international meta-analysis including 22 740 patients (23 May, 2012)

  Fabrizio D'Ascenzo, Davide Giacomo Presutti, Elisa Picardi, Claudio Moretti, Pierluigi Omedè, Filippo Sciuto, Marco Novara, Andrew T Yan, Shaun Goodman, Nitin Mahajan, Masami Kosuge, Alberto Palazzuoli, Gwo-Ping Jong, Hussain Isma'eel, Matthew J Budoff, Ronen Rubinshtein, Henry Gewirtz, Matthew J Reed, Pierre Theroux, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Maria Grazia Modena, Imad Sheiban, Fiorenzo Gaita

Calcium and cardiovascular disease

• Original article: Associations of dietary calcium intake and calcium supplementation with myocardial infarction and stroke risk and overall cardiovascular mortality in the Heidelberg cohort of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study (EPIC-Heidelberg) (23 May, 2012) Free

  Kuanrong Li, Rudolf Kaaks, Jakob Linseisen, Sabine Rohrmann
• Original article: Calcium, phosphate and the risk of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality in a population with stable coronary heart disease (1 February, 2012)

  Norma Christine Grandi, Hermann Brenner, Harry Hahmann, Bernd Wüsten, Winfried März, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Lutz Philipp Breitling

Congenital heart disease

• Original article: Systemic to pulmonary collateral blood flow influences early outcomes following the total cavopulmonary connection (23 May, 2012)

  Tobias Odenwald, Michael A Quail, Alessandro Giardini, Sachin Khambadkone, Marina Hughes, Oliver Tann, Tain-Yen Hsia, Vivek Muthurangu, Andrew M Taylor

Epidemiology

• Original article: Cardiovascular risk age: concepts and practicalities (23 May, 2012)

  Marie Therese Cooney, Erkki Vartiainen, Tiina Laatikainen, Dirk De Bacquer, Catherine McGorrian, Alexandra Dudina, Ian Graham, on behalf of the SCORE and FINRISK investigators