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Original research

• Clinical significance of atrial high-rate episodes for thromboembolic events in Japanese population (9 November, 2017)

  Hiroshi Kawakami, Takayuki Nagai, Makoto Saito, Shinji Inaba, Fumiyasu Seike, Kazuhisa Nishimura, Katsuji Inoue, Takafumi Okura, Takumi Sumimoto, Shigeki Uemura, Jitsuo Higaki, Shuntaro Ikeda
• Facilitators and barriers to healthy eating in a worksite cafeteria: a qualitative study from Nepal (26 October, 2017)

  Archana Shrestha, Prajjwal Pyakurel, Abha Shrestha, Rabin Gautam, Nisha Manandhar, Elizabeth Rhodes, Dipesh Tamrakar, Biraj Man Karmacharya, Vasanti Malik, Josiemer Mattei, Donna Spiegelman
• Prevalence and pattern of cardiovascular risk factors in a population in India (14 September, 2017) Free

  Aditya Khetan, Melissa Zullo, Vittal Hejjaji, Dweep Barbhaya, Sushil Agarwal, Rishab Gupta, Sri Krishna Madan Mohan, Richard Josephson
• Predictors of cardiac benefits of renal artery stenting from a multicentre retrospective registry (14 September, 2017) Free

  Yuri Nakajima, Osami Kawarada, Akihiro Higashimori, Yoshiaki Yokoi, Kan Zen, Hitoshi Anzai, Hideki Doi, Seiji Hokimoto, Shigenori Ito, Taku Kato, Teruyoshi Kume, Yoshiaki Shintani, Shuzou Tanimoto, Yoshinori Tsubakimoto, Makoto Utsunomiya, Kunihiro Nishimura, Satoshi Yasuda
• Trend in prevalence of coronary artery disease and risk factors over two decades in rural Punjab (14 September, 2017) Free

  Abhishek Goyal, Praneet Kahlon, Dinesh Jain, R K Soni, Rohit Gulati, Shibba Takkar Chhabra, Naved Aslam, Bishav Mohan, Inder S Anand, Vikram Patel, Gurpreet Singh Wander
• Is white rice consumption a risk for metabolic and cardiovascular outcomes? A systematic review and meta-analysis (31 August, 2017) Free

  Chayakrit Krittanawong, Anusith Tunhasiriwet, HongJu Zhang, Larry J Prokop, Sakkarin Chirapongsathorn, Tao Sun, Zhen Wang
• Pulmonary and right ventricular dysfunction are frequently present in heart failure irrespective of left ventricular ejection fraction (16 August, 2017) Free

  Wouter Robaeys, Sema Bektas, Josiane Boyne, Vanessa van Empel, Nicole Uszko-Lencer, Christian Knackstedt, Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca
• Risk perception of cardiovascular diseases among individuals with hypertension in rural Malaysia (16 August, 2017) Free

  Nazar Mohd Zabadi Mohd Azahar, Ambigga Devi S Krishnapillai, Noor Hanita Zaini, Khalid Yusoff
• Prevalence of randomised controlled trials in Japanese cardiovascular journals: a descriptive study (7 August, 2017) Free

  Tasuku Matsuyama, Tomoko Fujii, Jiro Takeuchi, Masahiko Hara, Tetsuhisa Kitamura
• An evaluation of the 25 by 25 goal for premature cardiovascular disease mortality in Taiwan: an age-period-cohort analysis, population attributable fraction and national population-based study (7 August, 2017) Free

  Shih-Yung Su, Wen-Chung Lee, Tzu-Ting Chen, Hao-Chien Wang, Ta-Chen Su, Jiann-Shing Jeng, Yu-Kang Tu, Shu-Fen Liao, Tzu-Pin Lu, Kuo-Liong Chien
• Original research: Cardiovascular risk in an HIV-infected population in India (30 June, 2017) Free

  Ivan P Marbaniang, Dileep Kadam, Rohan Suman, Nikhil Gupte, Sonali Salvi, Sandesh Patil, Dhananjay Shere, Prasad Deshpande, Vandana Kulkarni, Andrea Deluca, Amita Gupta, Vidya Mave
• Implications of prescribing a fixed-dose combination in clinical cardiology practice: a retrospective observational study using a single medical centre database in Korea (26 June, 2017) Free

  Hyungseop Kim, Hyuck-Jun Yoon, Hyoung-Seob Park, Yun-Kyeong Cho, Chang-Wook Nam, Seongwook Han, Seung-Ho Hur, Yoon-Nyun Kim, Kwon-Bae Kim
• Spectrum of cardiovascular diseases in six main referral hospitals of Ethiopia (19 June, 2017) Free

  Dejuma Yadeta, Senbeta Guteta, Bekele Alemayehu, Dufera Mekonnen, Etsegenet Gedlu, Henock Benti, Hagazi Tesfaye, Samuel Berhane, Abraha Hailu, Abadi Luel, Tedros Hailu, Wandimu Daniel, Abraham Haileamlak, Esayas Kebede Gudina, Gari Negeri, Desalew Mekonnen, Kindie Woubeshet, Tariku Egeno, Kinfe Lemma, Vibhu R Kshettry, Endale Tefera
• Outcomes after mitral valve surgery for rheumatic heart disease (19 June, 2017) Free

  E Anne Russell, Warren F Walsh, Christopher M Reid, Lavinia Tran, Alex Brown, Jayme S Bennetts, Robert A Baker, Robert Tam, Graeme P Maguire
• Non-compaction of left ventricular myocardium in sub-Saharan African adults (8 June, 2017) Free

  Ngoné Diaba Gaye, Aliou Alassane Ngaïdé, Mamadou Bassirou Bah, Kana Babaka, Alassane Mbaye, Kane Abdoul