Table of contents

Original articles

Hypertension

• Original article: Simvastatin reduces sympathetic outflow and augments endothelium-independent dilation in non-hyperlipidaemic primary hypertension (20 December, 2012)

  Cheri L McGowan, Hisayoshi Murai, Philip J Millar, Catherine F Notarius, Beverley L Morris, John S Floras

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Aortic sclerosis is associated with mortality and major morbidity in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery (4 December, 2012) Free

  Aidan W Flynn, Jonathan Afilalo, Arvind K Agnihotri, Cristina Castrillo, David M Shahian, Michael H Picard
• Original article: Discrepancy between mitral valve areas measured by two-dimensional planimetry and three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography in patients with mitral stenosis (2 November, 2012)

  Sun-Yang Min, Jong-Min Song, Yun-Jeong Kim, Hong-Kyung Park, Mi-Ohk Seo, Moo-Song Lee, Dae-Hee Kim, Duk-Hyun Kang, Jae-Kwan Song

Heart failure

• Original Article: Exercise-induced torsional dyssynchrony relates to impaired functional capacity in patients with heart failure and normal ejection fraction (6 December, 2012)

  Yu Ting Tan, Frauke WG Wenzelburger, John E Sanderson, Francisco Leyva
• Original article: Cost-effectiveness analysis of serial measurement of circulating natriuretic peptide concentration in chronic heart failure (12 December, 2012)

  Philippe Laramée, David Wonderling, Sharon Swain, Abdallah Al-Mohammad, Jonathan Mant

Epidemiology

• Original article: Smoking water-pipe, chewing nass and prevalence of heart disease: a cross-sectional analysis of baseline data from the Golestan Cohort Study, Iran (20 December, 2012)

  Farhad Islami, Akram Pourshams, Rajesh Vedanthan, Hossein Poustchi, Farin Kamangar, Asieh Golozar, Arash Etemadi, Hooman Khademi, Neal D Freedman, Shahin Merat, Vaani Garg, Valentin Fuster, Jon Wakefield, Sanford M Dawsey, Paul Pharoah, Paul Brennan, Christian C Abnet, Reza Malekzadeh, Paolo Boffetta