Table of contents

Original articles

Sudden cardiac death

• Original article: Temporal variation and morphologic characteristics of J-waves in patients with early repolarisation syndrome (22 October, 2013)

  Hyung Oh Choi, Gi-Byoung Nam, Eun-Sun Jin, Ki-Hun Kim, Sung-Hwan Kim, Eui-Seock Hwang, Kyoung-Min Park, Jun Kim, Kyoung-Suk Rhee, Kee-Joon Choi, You-Ho Kim

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Diagnosis of neurally mediated syncope at initial evaluation and with tilt table testing compared with that revealed by prolonged ECG monitoring. An analysis from the Third International Study on Syncope of Uncertain Etiology (ISSUE-3) (23 October, 2013)

  Andrea Ungar, Paolo Sgobino, Vitantonio Russo, Elena Vitale, Richard Sutton, Donato Melissano, Xulio Beiras, Nicola Bottoni, Hans H Ebert, Michele Gulizia, Marcella Jorfida, Angel Moya, Dietrich Andresen, Nicoletta Grovale, Michele Brignole, on behalf of the International Study on Syncope of Uncertain Etiology 3 (ISSUE-3) Investigators
• Original article: N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide as a predictor of incident atrial fibrillation in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis: the effects of age, sex and ethnicity (16 October, 2013)

  Kristen K Patton, Susan R Heckbert, Alvaro Alonso, Hossein Bahrami, Joao A C Lima, Gregory Burke, Richard A Kronmal

Cardiovascular risk

• Original article: Relationship between flow-mediated vasodilation and cardiovascular risk factors in a large community-based study (23 October, 2013)

  Tatsuya Maruhashi, Junko Soga, Noritaka Fujimura, Naomi Idei, Shinsuke Mikami, Yumiko Iwamoto, Masato Kajikawa, Takeshi Matsumoto, Takayuki Hidaka, Yasuki Kihara, Kazuaki Chayama, Kensuke Noma, Ayumu Nakashima, Chikara Goto, Hirofumi Tomiyama, Bonpei Takase, Akira Yamashina, Yukihito Higashi

Epidemiology

• Original article: Ischaemic heart disease, influenza and influenza vaccination: a prospective case control study (21 August, 2013)

  C Raina MacIntyre, Anita E Heywood, Pramesh Kovoor, Iman Ridda, Holly Seale, Timothy Tan, Zhanhai Gao, Anthea L Katelaris, Ho Wai Derrick Siu, Vincent Lo, Richard Lindley, Dominic E Dwyer
• Original article: Associations of maternal 25-hydroxyvitamin D in pregnancy with offspring cardiovascular risk factors in childhood and adolescence: findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (14 October, 2013)

  Dylan M Williams, Abigail Fraser, William D Fraser, Elina Hyppönen, George Davey Smith, John Deanfield, Aroon Hingorani, Naveed Sattar, Debbie A Lawlor

Cardiovascular surgery

• Original article: The fate of pulmonary conduits after the Ross procedure: longitudinal analysis of the German-Dutch Ross registry experience (23 October, 2013)

  M Mostafa Mokhles, Efstratios I Charitos, Ulrich Stierle, Jeevanantham Rajeswaran, Eugene H Blackstone, Ad J J C Bogers, Johanna J M Takkenberg, Hans-Hinrich Sievers