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April 2008




In the Heart of Women
Failing with women: how clinical trials fail our largest subgroup
  by Puja Parikh, MD • Hal A. Skopicki, MD, PhD
  From Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook, New York.

Images in Cardiology
Iatrogenic dilated cardiomyopathy and spectrum of current treatment modalities
  by Tasneem Z. Naqvi, MD1 • Jing Zhang MD, PhD2 • Leslie Saxon, MD1
  From the 1Division of Cardiology, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine and the Department of Anesthesia Cardiovascular Institute and 2Fu Wai Hospital Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Beijing China.
Hypertension
Comprehensive lifestyle modification and blood pressure control
  by William M. Vollmer, PhD1 • Victor J. Stevens, PhD1 • Laura P. Svetkey, MD, MHS2 • Lillian F. Lien, MD3 • Catherine M. Champagne, PhD, RD4
  From the 1Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, Oregon; 2Duke Hypertension Center and the Sarah W. Stedman Nutrition and Metabolism Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; 3Medicine/Endocrinology, Metabolism and Nutrition, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; 4Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Nutritional Epidemiology and Dietary Assessment and Counseling, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
  Case Report
Decreased weight and blood pressure resulting from lifestyle changes in a middle-aged patient
  Commentary
Lifestyle interventions and hypertension
  by Samuel J. Mann, MD
Lipid Disorders
Are statins cardioprotective in patients undergoing major vascular surgery?
  by Martin Dunkelgrun, MD1 • Harm H. Feringa, MD2 • Dustin Goei, MD1 • Jeroen J. Bax, MD4 • Don Poldermans, MD3
  From the 1Department of Vascular Surgery, 2Department of Cardiology, 3Department of Anesthesiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; and 4Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands.
  Commentary
High-dose statins and the high-risk vascular surgery patient
  by Louis Kozloff, MD

Lipid Disorders
Combining warfarin and antiplatelet therapy after coronary stenting
  by Michael C. Nguyen, MBBS • David Brieger, MBBS, PhD
  From the Department of Cardiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Department of Cardiology, Concord Hospital, Sydney,Australia.
  Case Report
An elderly patient taking warfarin with a mid-left anterior descending artery lesion
  Commentary
Anticoagulation regimens after stent insertion
  by William E. Lawson, MD

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