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August 2006




Lipid Disorders
Which men should receive aspirin or statins for primary prevention of coronary artery disease?
  by Michael Pignone, MD, MPH
  From the Division of General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  Case Report
How Should This Patient be Treated?
  Commentary
Aspirin and statins for prevention of coronary artery disease
  by Richard M. Steingart, MD
CAD/Angina
Analysis of regional left ventricular function
  by Rainer Hoffmann, MD1 • Stephan von Bardeleben, MD2 • Jaroslaw D. Kasprzak, MD3 • Adrian C. Borges, MD4 • Folkert ten Cate, MD5• Christian Firschke, MD6 • Stephane Lafitte, MD7 • Nidal Al-Saadi, MD8 • Stefanie Kuntz-Hehner, MD9 • Marc Engelhardt, MD10 • Jean Louis Vanoverschelde, MD11 • Harald Becher, MD12
  From the 1University Rheinisch-Westfδlischen Technishen Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany; 2Clinic Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany; 3Medical University, Lodz, Poland; 4University Charite, Berlin, Germany; 5Academic Hospital Dijkzigt Rotterdam, the Netherlands; 6Deutsches Herzzentrum, Munich, Germany; 7Hopital du Haut Leveque, Pessac Cedex, France; 8University Charite, Berlin, Germany; 9University Bonn, Bonn, Germany; 10Bracco Diagnostics, Princeton, New Jersey; 11Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium; and 12John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
  Case Report
Regional wall motion abnormality shown on contrast-enhanced echocardiography
  Commentary
Did you see it move?
  by Alan G.Wasserman, MD
Diabetes
Stress echocardiography in diabetes mellitus
  by Nithima Chaowalit, MD • Patricia A. Pellikka, MD
  From the Division of Cardiology, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand (NC), and Division of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota (PAP)
  Case Report
A woman at risk for morbidity and mortality based on her risk score
  Commentary
Stress echocardiography in diabetes mellitus
  by Luther T. Clark, MD
Arrhythmias
Metoprolol for the prevention of vasovagal syncope
  by Karyn Baggs, MKin • Robert Sheldon, MD, PhD
  From the University of Calgary, Health Sciences Centre, Canada
  Case Report
A patient who fainted on head-up tilt test with isoproterenol
  Commentary
Syncope, metoprolol, and tilt-table testing
  by Frank Mazzola, MD

Departments

  Editor's Page
Cost utility of statins and aspirin
Maintaining Certification in Cardiology
  News Beat
21st Annual International Interdisciplinary Conference on Hypertension and Related Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Ethnic Populations, June 23-26, 2006
  Preventive Cardiology in Special Patient Populations
The Association of Black Cardiologists focuses on decreasing cardiovascular disease risk among patients with diabetes and metabolic syndrome
  by Keith C. Ferdinand, MD • Chief Science Officer, Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc

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