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Original articles

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Different behaviour of NOX2 activation in patients with paroxysmal/persistent or permanent atrial fibrillation (23 May, 2012)

  Roberto Cangemi, Andrea Celestini, Camilla Calvieri, Roberto Carnevale, Daniele Pastori, Cristina Nocella, Tommasa Vicario, Pasquale Pignatelli, Francesco Violi
• Original article: Effectiveness of amiodarone versus bepridil in achieving conversion to sinus rhythm in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation: a randomised trial (11 June, 2012)

  Miki Yamase, Yuji Nakazato, Hiroyuki Daida

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Pneumococcal vaccination and risk of acute coronary syndromes in patients with pneumonia: population-based cohort study (27 June, 2012)

  Dean T Eurich, Jennie J Johnstone, Jasjeet K Minhas-Sandhu, Thomas J Marrie, Sumit R Majumdar

Pericardial disease

• Original article: Efficacy and safety of colchicine for pericarditis prevention. Systematic review and meta-analysis (22 March, 2012) Free

  Massimo Imazio, Antonio Brucato, Davide Forno, Silvia Ferro, Riccardo Belli, Rita Trinchero, Yehuda Adler

Cardiomyopathy

• Original article: Exercise training in dilated cardiomyopathy improves rest and stress cardiac function without changes in cardiac high energy phosphate metabolism (27 June, 2012)

  Cameron J Holloway, Sairia Dass, Joseph J Suttie, Oliver J Rider, Pete Cox, Lowri E Cochlin, Hamish Jackson, Angela M Fast, Andrew W Johnson, Theodoros D Karamitsos, Stefan Neubauer, Kieran Clarke

Epidemiology

• Original article: Predicting the adverse risk of statin treatment: an independent and external validation of Qstatin risk scores in the UK (11 June, 2012)

  Gary S Collins, Douglas G Altman