Table of contents

Original articles

Diabetes, lipids and metabolism

• Original article: Ankle pressures in UK South Asians with diabetes mellitus: a case control study (26 February, 2013)

  Kirti Kain, Michael Brockway, Tasneem Ishfaq, Minnie Merrick, Hadiyah Mahmood, Joseph C Ingoe, Graham Richard Law, Soroush Sohrabi, Stephen Wheatcroft, D Julian A Scott

Cardiac rehabilitation

• Original article: Attendance at cardiac rehabilitation is associated with lower all-cause mortality after 14 years of follow-up (4 December, 2012) Free

  Alison Beauchamp, Marian Worcester, Andrew Ng, Barbara Murphy, James Tatoulis, Leeanne Grigg, Robert Newman, Alan Goble

Interventional cardiology

• Original article: Impact of overlapping newer generation drug-eluting stents on clinical and angiographic outcomes: pooled analysis of five trials from the international Global RESOLUTE Program (6 March, 2013)

  Vasim Farooq, Pascal Vranckx, Laura Mauri, Donald E Cutlip, Jorge Belardi, Sigmund Silber, Petr Widimsky, Martin Leon, Stephan Windecker, Ian Meredith, Manuela Negoita, Frank van Leeuwen, Franz-Joseph Neumann, Alan C Yeung, Hector M Garcia-Garcia, Patrick W Serruys

Heart failure

• Original article: Trastuzumab-induced cardiotoxicity in early breast cancer patients: a retrospective study of possible risk and protective factors (24 January, 2013)

  Alberto Farolfi, Elisabetta Melegari, Michele Aquilina, Emanuela Scarpi, Toni Ibrahim, Roberta Maltoni, Samanta Sarti, Lorenzo Cecconetto, Elisabetta Pietri, Cristiano Ferrario, Anna Fedeli, Marina Faedi, Oriana Nanni, Giovanni Luca Frassineti, Dino Amadori, Andrea Rocca

Coronary artery disease

• Original article: Incremental diagnostic value of circulating pentraxin in patients with intermediate risk of coronary artery disease (6 March, 2013)

  Habib Haybar, Ahmadreza Assareh, Yasaman Ghotbi, Mehdi Torabizadeh, Mohammadreza Bozorgmanesh

Epidemiology

• Original article: Estimating the effect of long-term physical activity on cardiovascular disease and mortality: evidence from the Framingham Heart Study (8 March, 2013)

  Susan M Shortreed, Anna Peeters, Andrew B Forbes
• Moderate overweight is beneficial and severe obesity detrimental for patients with documented atherosclerotic heart disease (18 January, 2013)

  Aziza Azimi, Mette Gitz Charlot, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Gunnar H Gislason, Lars Køber, Lisette Okkels Jensen, Per Thayssen, Jan Ravkilde, Hans-Henrik Tilsted, Jens Flensted Lassen, Leif Thuesen