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Original research

• Roles of ghrelin in left-ventricular remodelling after acute myocardial infarction (5 July, 2010) Free

  Hideyuki Kondo, Yukihiro Hojo, Nozomu Takahashi, Tomokazu Ikemoto, Hirotaka Aoki, Katsuya Dezaki, Kazuomi Kario, Takaaki Katsuki, Toshihiko Yada, Kazuyuki Shimada
• The non-thyroidal illness syndrome in acute coronary syndrome is associated with increased cardiac morbidity and mortality (6 July, 2010) Free

  J Adawiyah, A W Norasyikin, N H Mat, A S Shamsul, K Nor Azmi
• The number and function of circulating CD34⁺CD133⁺ progenitor cells decreased in stable coronary artery disease but not in acute myocardial infarction

  (11 July, 2010) Free

  Takahisa Kondo, Satoshi Shintani, Kengo Maeda, Mutsuharu Hayashi, Yasuya Inden, Yasushi Numaguchi, Kaichiro Sugiura, Yasuhiro Morita, Tomoya Kitamura, Haruo Kamiya, Takahito Sone, Miyoshi Ohno, Toyoaki Murohara
• Angina in primary care in Goa, India: sex differences and associated risk factors (11 July, 2010) Free

  Irwin Nazareth, Gladstone D'Costa, Eleftheria Kalaitzaki, Raj Vaidya, Michael King
• Is volcanic air pollution associated with decreased heart-rate variability? (11 July, 2010) Free

  Dominic C Chow, Andrew Grandinetti, Ed Fernandez, A J Sutton, Tamar Elias, Barbara Brooks, Elizabeth K Tam
• Blood pressure, cholesterol and cardiovascular disease in Thailand (11 July, 2010) Free

  Panrasri Khonputsa, J Lennert Veerman, Prin Vathesatogkit, Somlax Vanavanan, Stephen Lim, Melanie Bertram, Theo Vos, Wipa Ratanachaiwong, Sukit Yamwong
• Effect of smoking on age at the time of coronary artery bypass graft surgery; baseline data results from the ROSETTA-CABG registry (21 July, 2010) Free

  Rashid Chaudhry, Fahd A Chaudhry, Thao Huynh, Ellis Lader, Saira Rashid, Karen Okrainec, Karen Wou, Mark J Eisenberg, for the ROSETTA-CABG Investigators
• Diagnostic utility of cardiac magnetic resonance for detection of cardiac involvement in female carriers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (29 July, 2010) Free

  Takashi Iwase, Shoichiro Takao, Masashi Akaike, Katsuhito Adachi, Yuka Sumitomo-Ueda, Shusuke Yagi, Toshiyuki Niki, Kenya Kusunose, Noriko Tomita, Yoichiro Hirata, Koji Yamaguchi, Kunihiko Koshiba, Yoshio Taketani, Hirotsugu Yamada, Takeshi Soeki, Tetsuzo Wakatsuki, Ken-ichi Aihara, Masafumi Harada, Hiromu Nishitani, Masataka Sata
• Does syncope require rhythmic and non-rhythmic evaluation in patients with previous MI? (29 July, 2010) Free

  B Brembilla-Perrot, C Suty-Selton, F Alla, P Y Zinzius, H Blangy, B Azman, A Terrier de la Chaise, P Louis, L Groben, K Djaballah, O Selton, S Magalhaes, L Muresan, J Cedano, A Abdelaal, N Sadoul
• Is severely left ventricular dysfunction a predictor of early outcomes in patients with coronary artery bypass graft? (29 July, 2010) Free

  Seyed Hossein Ahmadi, Abbasali Karimi, Namvar Movahedi, Mahmood Shirzad, Mehrab Marzban, Mokhtar Tazik, Hermineh Aramin, Samaneh Dowlatshahi, Mahmood Sheikh Fathollahi
• Socio-economic disparities in heart disease in the Republic of Lebanon: findings from a population-based study (29 July, 2010) Free

  Tarik Ramahi, Marwan Khawaja, Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, Sawsan Abdulrahim
• Cognitive function in patients undergoing coronary angiography (29 July, 2010) Free

  A N Devapalasundarum, B S Silbert, L A Evered, D A Scott, A I MacIsaac, P T Maruff
• The Chinese physicians' CardiovAscular Risk Evaluation (CARE) survey: an assessment of physicians' own cardiovascular risks (26 August, 2010) Free

  D-Y Hu, J-M Yu, F Chen, Y-H Sun, Q-W Jiang, for the CARE Survey Group
• Genome-wide association analysis and replication of coronary artery disease in South Korea suggests a causal variant common to diverse populations (18 September, 2010) Free

  Eun Young Cho, Yangsoo Jang, Eun Soon Shin, Hye Yoon Jang, Yeon-Kyeong Yoo, Sook Kim, Ji Hyun Jang, Ji Yeon Lee, Min Hye Yun, Min Young Park, Jey Sook Chae, Jin Woo Lim, Dong Jik Shin, Sungha Park, Jong Ho Lee, Bok Ghee Han, Kim Hyung Rae, Lon R Cardon, Andrew P Morris, Jong Eun Lee, Geraldine M Clarke
• Acute coronary syndrome registry from four large centres in United Arab Emirates (UAE-ACS Registry) (5 October, 2010) Free

  Afzalhussein M Yusufali, Wael AlMahmeed, Sadeq Tabatabai, Kabad Rao, Azan Binbrek
• Comprehensive mutation scanning of KCNQ1 in 111 Han Chinese patients with lone atrial fibrillation

  (8 November, 2010) Free

  Lin Y Chen, June M Goh, Raymond C Wong, Li-Fern Hsu, David Foo, David G Benditt, Lieng H Ling, Chew K Heng
• Predictive value of high sensitivity C-reactive protein in the diagnosis and outcomes of acute aortic syndromes (3 December, 2010) Free

  Soufian T AlMahameed, Gian M Novaro, Craig R Asher, Penny L Hougthaling, Rodrigo M Lago, Deepak L Bhatt, Amjad T AlMahameed, Eric J Topol
• C-reactive protein in unstable angina: clinical and angiographic correlation (3 December, 2010) Free

  Prashanth Panduranga, Abdulla A Riyami, Kadhim J Sulaiman, Mohammed Mukhaini