Open Heart: 4 (2)

Editorial

Markedly increased intake of refined carbohydrates and sugar is associated with the rise of coronary heart disease and diabetes among the Alaskan Inuit (5 December, 2017)
James J DiNicolantonio, James O’Keefe
Added sugars drive coronary heart disease via insulin resistance and hyperinsulinaemia: a new paradigm (29 November, 2017)
James J DiNicolantonio, James H OKeefe
Postprandial insulin assay as the earliest biomarker for diagnosing pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes and increased cardiovascular risk (27 November, 2017)
James J DiNicolantonio, Jaikrit Bhutani, James H OKeefe, Catherine Crofts
Added fructose as a principal driver of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: a public health crisis (30 October, 2017)
James J DiNicolantonio, Ashwin M Subramonian, James H O’Keefe
Targeting aspirin resistance with nutraceuticals: a possible strategy for reducing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality (2 September, 2017)
James J DiNicolantonio, James H O’Keefe, Mark F McCarty
Supplemental N-acetylcysteine and other measures that boost intracellular glutathione can downregulate interleukin-1β signalling: a potential strategy for preventing cardiovascular events? (28 July, 2017)
James J DiNicolantonio, James H O’Keefe, Mark F McCarty
The relevance of periprocedural troponin rise: the never ending story! (29 June, 2017)
Georg Marcus Fröhlich, David Manuel Leistner

Aortic and vascular disease

Original research article: High-pitch versus conventional cardiovascular CT in patients being assessed for transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a real-world appraisal (8 August, 2017)
Tevfik F Ismail, Emma Cheasty, Laurence King, Sahar Naaseri, Olga Lazoura, Natalie Gartland, Simon Padley, Michael B Rubens, Isabel Castellano, Edward D Nicol

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Original research article: Rates and risk of arrhythmias in cancer survivors with chemotherapy-induced cardiomyopathy compared with patients with other cardiomyopathies (17 December, 2017)
Michael G Fradley, Federico Viganego, Kevin Kip, Angel Martin, Aarti A Patel, Roohi Ismail-Khan, Sanders Chae, Bengt Herweg, Arthur Labovitz
Original research article: Association of QT interval with mortality by kidney function: results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) (21 October, 2017)
Rehan Malik, Sehrish Waheed, Deepak Parashara, Jorge Perez, Salman Waheed
Original research article: Predictors of risk for sudden death in childhood hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: the importance of the ECG risk score (21 October, 2017)
Ingegerd Östman-Smith, Gunnar Sjöberg, Annika Rydberg, Per Larsson, Eva Fernlund
Original research article: Efficacy and safety of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants compared with warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation (23 September, 2017)
Leif Friberg, Jonas Oldgren
Original research article: Mortality and oral anticoagulants in the Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (1 June, 2017)
Victor Serebruany, Vasily Cherepanov, Seth Fortmann, Moo Hyun Kim

Basic and translational research

Original research article: Significant reduction in hospital-acquired thrombosis: impact of national risk assessment and real-time feedback (28 September, 2017)
Huw Raymond Rowswell, Timothy J C Nokes
Original research article: Cardiometabolic effects of a novel SIRT1 activator, SRT2104, in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (2 September, 2017)
Radzi M Noh, Sowmya Venkatasubramanian, Shruti Daga, Jeremy Langrish, Nicholas L Mills, Ninian N Lang, Ethan Hoffmann, Brian Waterhouse, David E Newby, Brian M Frier
Original research article: Characterisation of clot microstructure properties in stable coronary artery disease (23 June, 2017)
Ahmed Sabra, Matthew James Lawrence, Robert Aubrey, Daniel Obaid, Alexander Chase, Dave Smith, Phillip Thomas, Sharon Storton, Gareth R Davies, Karl Hawkins, Phylip Rhodri Williams, Keith Morris, Phillip Adrian Evans

Cardiac surgery

Original research article: The use of the RenalGuard system in cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass: a first in man prospective, observational, feasibility pilot study (10 October, 2017)
Heyman Luckraz, Ramesh Giri, Benmjamin Wrigley, Anne-Marie Hennessy, Johann Nicholas, Alan Nevill

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Original research article: Arterial pathophysiology and comparison of two devices for pulse wave velocity assessment in elderly men: the British regional heart study (17 December, 2017)
Elizabeth A Ellins, Kirsten E Smith, Lucy T Lennon, Olia Papacosta, S Goya Wannamethee, Peter H Whincup, Julian P Halcox
Original research article: The impact of passive and active smoking on inflammation, lipid profile and the risk of myocardial infarction (8 August, 2017)
Ritienne Attard, Philip Dingli, Carine J M Doggen, Karen Cassar, Rosienne Farrugia, Stephanie Bezzina Wettinger
Original research article: The importance of early life family factors in the association between cardiovascular risk factors and early cardiovascular mortality (8 August, 2017)
Marte K R Kjøllesdal, Inger Ariansen, Laust H Mortensen, Øyvind Næss
Original research article: Association of Life's Simple 7 and presence of cardiovascular disease in general Australians (25 July, 2017)
Yang Peng, Zhiqiang Wang
Original research article: Nurse-coordinated care improves the achievement of LDL cholesterol targets through more intensive medication titration (11 July, 2017)
Marjolein Snaterse, Harald T Jorstad, Marlies Heiligenberg, Gerben ter Riet, S Matthijs Boekholdt, Wilma Scholte op Reimer, Ron J Peters
Original research article: Time-based measures of treatment effect: reassessment of ticagrelor and clopidogrel from the PLATO trial (1 June, 2017)
Andrea Bellavia, Lars Wallentin, Nicola Orsini, Stefan K James, Christopher P Cannon, Anders Himmelmann, Johan Sundström, Henrik Renlund, Per Lytsy

Coronary artery disease

Original research article: Association of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol with non-fatal cardiac and non-cardiac events: a CANHEART substudy (17 December, 2017)
Harindra C Wijeysundera, Maria Koh, David A Alter, Peter C Austin, Cynthia A Jackevicius, Jack V Tu, Dennis T Ko
Original research article: Gender differences in the decrease of in-hospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction during the last 20 years in Switzerland (14 November, 2017)
Dragana Radovanovic, Burkhardt Seifert, Marco Roffi, Philip Urban, Hans Rickli, Giovanni Pedrazzini, Paul Erne
Original research article: Exercise dose and all-cause mortality within extended cardiac rehabilitation: a cohort study (28 July, 2017)
Claire Taylor, Costas Tsakirides, James Moxon, James W Moxon, Michael Dudfield, Klaus Witte, Lee Ingle, Sean Carroll
Original research article: The safety, efficacy and cost-effectiveness of stress echocardiography in patients with high pretest probability of coronary artery disease (14 June, 2017)
Alexandros Papachristidis, Daniela Cassar Demarco, Damian Roper, Ioannis Tsironis, Michael Papitsas, Jonathan Byrne, Khaled Alfakih, Mark J Monaghan

Congenital heart disease

Original research article: Late-stage left ventricular dysfunction in adult survivors of tetralogy of Fallot repair in childhood (28 November, 2017)
Abdel Anabtawi, Judith Mondragon, Diane Dodendorf, Warren K Laskey

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Original research article: Accrual monitoring in cardiovascular trials (17 December, 2017)
Ileana Baldi, Dario Gregori, Alessandro Desideri, Paola Berchialla
Original research article: Prevalence and prognostic value of echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease (17 December, 2017)
Susy Kotit, Karim Said, Amr ElFaramawy, Hani Mahmoud, David I W Phillips, Magdi H Yacoub

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Original research article: Impact of missed treatment opportunities on outcomes in hospitalised patients with heart failure (22 December, 2017)
Simon Walker, Eldon Spackman, Nathalie Conrad, Connor A Emdin, Ed Griffin, Kazem Rahimi, Mark Sculpher
Original research article: Heart failure following STEMI: a contemporary cohort study of incidence and prognostic factors (22 December, 2017)
Johannes M I H Gho, Pieter G Postema, Maartje Conijn, Nienke Bruinsma, Jonas S S G de Jong, Connie R Bezzina, Arthur A M Wilde, Folkert W Asselbergs
Original research article: Immediate response in markers of inflammation and angiogenesis during exercise: a randomised cross-over study in heart transplant recipients (28 November, 2017)
Marianne Yardley, Thor Ueland, Pål Aukrust, Annika Michelsen, Elisabeth Bjørkelund, Lars Gullestad, Kari Nytrøen
Original research article: Biomarkers of cardiovascular stress and fibrosis in preclinical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (1 November, 2017)
Jennifer E Ho, Ling Shi, Sharlene M Day, Steven D Colan, Mark W Russell, Jeffrey A Towbin, Mark V Sherrid, Charles E Canter, John Lynn Jefferies, Anne Murphy, Matthew Taylor, Luisa Mestroni, Allison L Cirino, Lynn A Sleeper, Peter Jarolim, Begoña Lopez, Arantxa Gonzalez, Javier Diez, E John Orav, Carolyn Y Ho
Review: Heart failure: a story of damage, fatigue and injury? (15 October, 2017)
Prithwish Banerjee
Review: Routinely collected health data to study inherited heart disease: a systematic review (2000–2016) (11 October, 2017)
Bianca Blanch, Joanna Sweeting, Christopher Semsarian, Jodie Ingles
Review: Extracellular cardiac matrix biomarkers in patients with reduced ejection fraction heart failure as predictors of response to cardiac resynchronisation therapy: a systematic review (21 August, 2017)
Christopher J McAloon, Danish Ali, Thomas Hamborg, Prithwish Banerjee, Paul O'Hare, Harpal Randeva, Faizel Osman
Original research article: Pathophysiology of exercise intolerance in chronic diseases: the role of diminished cardiac performance in mitochondrial and heart failure patients (28 July, 2017)
Jodi McCoy, Matthew Bates, Christopher Eggett, Mario Siervo, Sophie Cassidy, Jane Newman, Sarah A Moore, Grainne Gorman, Michael I Trenell, Lazar Velicki, Petar M Seferovic, John G F Cleland, Guy A MacGowan, Doug M Turnbull, Djordje G Jakovljevic
Original research article: Gated metabolic myocardial imaging, a surrogate for dual perfusion-metabolism imaging by positron emission tomography (28 July, 2017)
Abdallah AlMohammad, Murdoch Y Norton, Andrew E Welch, Peter F Sharp, Stephen Walton
Original research article: Smoking intensity and duration is associated with cardiac structure and function: the ECHOcardiographic Study of Hispanics/Latinos (14 June, 2017)
J Adam Leigh, Robert C Kaplan, Katrina Swett, Pelbreton Balfour, Mayank M Kansal, Gregory A Talavera, Krista Perreira, Michael J Blaha, Emelia J Benjamin, Rosemarie Robertson, Aruni Bhartnagar, Carlos J Rodriguez
Original research article: Comparison of the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration, the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease study and the Cockcroft-Gault equation in patients with heart failure (8 June, 2017)
Karolina Szummer, Marie Evans, Juan Jesus Carrero, Urban Alehagen, Ulf Dahlström, Lina Benson, Lars H Lund

Interventional cardiology

Review: Necessity to evaluate PI3K/Akt signalling pathway in proarrhythmia (10 December, 2017)
Martin Ezeani, Sunday Elom
Original research article:
Early clinical outcomes as a function of use of newer oral P2Y₁₂ inhibitors versus clopidogrel in the EUROMAX trial
(28 November, 2017)
Kurt Huber, Gregory Ducrocq, Christian W Hamm, Arnoud van ’t Hof, Frédéric Lapostolle, Pierre Coste, Giovanni Gordini, Jacob Steinmetz, Freek W A Verheugt, Jennifer Adgey, Lutz Nibbe, Vojko Kaniĉ, Peter Clemmensen, Uwe Zeymer, Debra Bernstein, Jayne Prats, Efthymios N Deliargyris, Ph Gabriel Steg
Original research article: Longitudinal deformation bench testing using a coronary artery model: a new standard? (6 November, 2017)
Tawfiq R Choudhury, Salwan Al-Saigh, Steve Burley, Lin Li, Nizar Shakhshir, Nazanin Mirhosseini, Tao Wang, Samer Arnous, Muhammad A Khan, Mamas A Mamas, Douglas G W Fraser
Review: Dual antiplatelet therapy for secondary prevention of coronary artery disease (15 October, 2017)
Sophie Degrauwe, Thomas Pilgrim, Adel Aminian, Stephane Noble, Pascal Meier, Juan F Iglesias
Original research article: Device closure for patent foramen ovale following cryptogenic stroke: a survey of current practice in the UK (15 October, 2017)
Katherine Von Klemperer, Aleksander Kempny, Christopher William Pavitt, John C Janssen, Anselm Uebing, Edward Nicol
Original research article: Development and validation of a clinical risk score to predict mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention (25 July, 2017)
Joshua J S Wall, Javaid Iqbal, Michael Andrews, Dawn Teare, Mina Ghobrial, Thomas Hinton, Samuel Turton, Leila Quffa, Magdi El-Omar, Douglas G Fraser, Anjan Siotia, Julian Gunn
Original research article: Two-year clinical outcomes of patients treated with the dual-therapy stent in a 1000 patient all-comers registry (11 July, 2017)
Deborah N Kalkman, Pier Woudstra, Ian B A Menown, Peter den Heijer, Arnoud WJ van't Hof, Andrejs Erglis, Harry Suryapranata, Karin E Arkenbout, Andrés Iñiguez, Philippe Muller, Jan G Tijssen, Marcel A M Beijk, Robbert J de Winter
Original research article: A comparative study of different imaging modalities for successful percutaneous left atrial appendage closure (30 June, 2017)
Danny HF Chow, Gintautas Bieliauskas, Fadi J Sawaya, Oscar Millan-Iturbe, Klaus F Kofoed, Lars Søndergaard, Ole De Backer
Original research article: Risk factors for worsening renal function and their association with long-term mortality following transcatheter aortic valve implantation: data from the SWEDEHEART registry (12 June, 2017)
Georgios Vavilis, Marie Evans, Tomas Jernberg, Andreas Rück, Karolina Szummer
Original research article: Polymer-free sirolimus-eluting stents in a large-scale all-comers population (6 June, 2017)
Florian Krackhardt, Viktor Kočka, Matthias W. Waliszewski, Andreas Utech, Meik Lustermann, Martin Hudec, Martin Studenčan, Markus Schwefer, Jiangtao Yu, Myung Ho Jeong, Taehoon Ahn, Wan Azman Wan Ahmad, Michael Boxberger, André Schneider, Matthias Leschke

Review

Healthcare provider-led interventions to support medication adherence following ACS: a meta-analysis (22 December, 2017)
Jacob Crawshaw, Vivian Auyeung, Lucy Ashworth, Sam Norton, John Weinman
Long and short of optimal stent design (30 October, 2017)
Timothy Watson, Mark W I Webster, John A Ormiston, Peter N Ruygrok, James T Stewart
Evaluation of intermediate coronary stenoses in acute coronary syndromes using pressure guidewire (14 June, 2017)
Giampaolo Niccoli, Ciro Indolfi, Justin E Davies

Special populations

Original research article: Elevated brain natriuretic peptide levels in chronic fatigue syndrome associate with cardiac dysfunction: a case control study (27 December, 2017)
Cara Tomas, Andreas Finkelmeyer, Tim Hodgson, Laura MacLachlan, Guy A MacGowan, Andrew M Blamire, Julia L Newton

Valvular heart disease

Original research article: Inception of the ‘endocarditis team’ is associated with improved survival in patients with infective endocarditis who are managed medically: findings from a before-and-after study (27 December, 2017)
Amit Kaura, Jonathan Byrne, Amanda Fife, Ranjit Deshpande, Max Baghai, Margaret Gunning, Donald Whitaker, Mark Monaghan, Philip A MacCarthy, Olaf Wendler, Rafal Dworakowski
Original research article: Renin-angiotensin system inhibitors in patients with or without ischaemic mitral regurgitation after acute myocardial infarction (10 December, 2017)
Kitae Kim, Shuichiro Kaji, Manabu Kasamoto, Ryosuke Murai, Yasuhiro Sasaki, Takeshi Kitai, Takafumi Yamane, Natsuhiko Ehara, Atsushi Kobori, Makoto Kinoshita, Yutaka Furukawa
Original research article: Osteopontin predicts clinical outcome in patients after treatment of severe aortic stenosis with transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) (10 June, 2017)
Matthias Lutz, Nora von Ingersleben, Moritz Lambers, Mark Rosenberg, Sandra Freitag-Wolf, Astrid Dempfle, Georg Lutter, Johanne Frank, Peter Bramlage, Norbert Frey, Derk Frank

Meta-analysis

Original research article: All-cause mortality and major cardiovascular outcomes comparing percutaneous coronary angioplasty versus coronary artery bypass grafting in the treatment of unprotected left main stenosis: a meta-analysis of short-term and long-term randomised trials (10 December, 2017)
Jari A Laukkanen, Setor K Kunutsor, Matti Niemelä, Kari Kervinen, Leif Thuesen, Timo H Mäkikallio
Original research article: Left ventricular longitudinal systolic function analysed by 2D speckle-tracking echocardiography in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a meta-analysis (25 September, 2017)
Daniel Armando Morris, Xin-Xin Ma, Evgeny Belyavskiy, Radhakrishnan Aravind Kumar, Martin Kropf, Robin Kraft, Athanasios Frydas, Engin Osmanoglou, Esteban Marquez, Erwan Donal, Frank Edelmann, Carsten Tschöpe, Burkert Pieske, Elisabeth Pieske-Kraigher

Reviewers

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Table of contents

November 2017 - Volume 4 - 2

Editorial

Aortic and vascular disease

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Basic and translational research

Cardiac surgery

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Coronary artery disease

Congenital heart disease

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Interventional cardiology

Review

Special populations

Valvular heart disease

Meta-analysis

Reviewers

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Table of contents

November 2017 - Volume 4 - 2

Editorial

Aortic and vascular disease

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Basic and translational research

Cardiac surgery

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Coronary artery disease

Congenital heart disease

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Interventional cardiology

Review

Special populations

Valvular heart disease

Meta-analysis

Reviewers