Annals ofHeart failure

Volume: 5 - Number: 38 - January 15, 2011

Outstanding

Biomarkers

Red cell distribution width has incremental prognostic value to B-type natriuretic peptide in acute heart failure

editor\'s choice: Red cell distribution width: an inexpensive and powerful prognostic marker in heart failure

Increased plasma retinol binding protein 4 levels in patients with inflammatory cardiomyopathy

Depression

Depressive symptoms and outcomes in patients with heart failure: data from the COACH study

Echocardiography

Right atrial size and deformation in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy

Cardiac mortality in ?-thalassemia major: resting but not dobutamine stress echocardiography predicts mortality among initially cardiac disease-free patients in a prospective 12-year study

Editorial

The Nobel Prize for medicine for telomere biology and relevance to heart failure research

Acute coronary syndromes, heart failure, and diabetes in the Gulf Registry of Acute Coronary Events

Epidemiology

Normal systolic blood pressure and risk of heart failure in US male physicians

Heart failure in patients hospitalized with acute coronary syndromes: observations from the Gulf Registry of Acute Coronary Events (Gulf RACE)

Implementation of device therapy (cardiac resynchronization therapy and implantable cardioverter defibrillator) for patients with heart failure in Europe: changes from 2004 to 2008

Experimental

Food-restriction in obese dyslipidaemic diabetic mice partially restores basal contractility but not contractile reserve

Impaired cellular contractile function in thiamine-deficient rat cardiomyocytes

Management

Hospital at home’ care model as an effective alternative in the management of decompensated chronic heart failure

Meeting report

Clinical trials update from the European Society of Cardiology Meeting 2009: AAA, RELY, PROTECT, ACTIVE-I, European CRT survey, German pre-SCD II registry, and MADIT-CRT

Prognosis

The impact of concurrent heart failure on prognosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

The obesity paradox in stable chronic heart failure does not persist after matching for indicators of disease severity and confounders

Treatment

Effect of simvastatin vs. rosuvastatin on adiponectin and haemoglobin A1c levels in patients with non-ischaemic chronic heart failure