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Original articles

Clinical trials

• Original article:

  CHADS₂ and CHA₂DS₂-VASc score to assess risk of stroke and death in patients paced for sick sinus syndrome

  (28 March, 2013)

  Jesper Hastrup Svendsen, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Stine Darkner, Gunnar Vagn Hagemann Jensen, Leif Spange Mortensen, Henning Rud Andersen, on behalf of the DANPACE Investigators

Cardiovascular surgery

• Original article: Bilateral internal mammary artery grafts, mortality and morbidity: an analysis of 1 526 360 coronary bypass operations (20 March, 2013)

  Shinobu Itagaki, Paul Cavallaro, David H Adams, Joanna Chikwe
• Original article: Bilateral internal mammary artery bypass grafting: long-term clinical benefits in a series of 1000 patients (20 March, 2013)

  Batric Popovic, Damien Voillot, Pablo Maureira, Fabrice Vanhuyse, Nelly Agrinier, Etienne Aliot, Thierry Folliguet, Jean Pierre Villemot

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Incidence, predictors and impact of bleeding after transcatheter aortic valve implantation using the balloon-expandable Edwards prosthesis (12 December, 2012)

  Bogdan Borz, Eric Durand, Matthieu Godin, Christophe Tron, Alexandre Canville, Pierre-Yves Litzler, Jean-Paul Bessou, Alain Cribier, Hélène Eltchaninoff

Prognosis research

• Original article: Development and validation of a prediction rule for recurrent vascular events based on a cohort study of patients with arterial disease: the SMART risk score (10 April, 2013)

  Johannes A N Dorresteijn, Frank L J Visseren, Annemarie M J Wassink, Martijn J A Gondrie, Ewout W Steyerberg, Paul M Ridker, Nancy R Cook, Yolanda van der Graaf, on behalf of the SMART Study Group

Cardiovascular imaging

• Original article: Cost-effectiveness of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in the diagnosis of coronary heart disease: an economic evaluation using data from the CE-MARC study (16 April, 2013)

  Simon Walker, François Girardin, Claire McKenna, Stephen G Ball, Jane Nixon, Sven Plein, John P Greenwood, Mark Sculpher

Epidemiology

• Original article: Elevated resting heart rate, physical fitness and all-cause mortality: a 16-year follow-up in the Copenhagen Male Study (17 April, 2013)

  Magnus Thorsten Jensen, Poul Suadicani, Hans Ole Hein, Finn Gyntelberg