Submissions from 2016
Effect of long-term periodontal care on hemoglobin A1c in type 2 diabetes, T Merchant, P Georgantopoulos, C J. Howe, Salim S. Virani, D A. Morales, and K S. Haddock
Aspirin for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: In need of clarity, Michael D. Miedema, Joseph Huguelet, and Salim S. Virani
Aspirin reduces cardiovascular events in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease but at a near equivalent risk of increased bleeding, Michael D. Miedema and Salim S. Virani
Harder-to-treat patients: Recognizing them and adapting treatment strategies, Michael D. Miedema and Salim S. Virani
Issues for quality enhancement and harmonization of education in East Africa, Mussa K. Mohamed, Anjum Halai, and Simon Karuku
Executive Summary: Heart disease and stroke statistics--2016 Update: A report from the American Heart Association, Dariush Mozaffarian, Emelia J. Benjamin, Alan S. Go, Donna K. Arnett, Michael J. Blaha, Mary Cushman, Sandeep R. Das, Sarah de Ferranti, Jean-Pierre Després, and Salim S. Virani
Trends in ideal cardiovascular health metrics among employees of a large healthcare organization (from the Baptist Health South Florida employee study), Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Ovie Utuama, Erica S. Spatz, Maribeth Rouseff, Don Parris, Sankalp Das, Adnan Younus, Henry Guzman, Thinh Tran, and Salim S. Virani
The impact of multiple single day blood pressure readings on cardiovascular risk estimation: The atherosclerosis risk in communities study, Abayomi N. Ogunwal, Alanna C. Morrison, Wensheng Sun, Rhiannon C. Dodge, Salim S. Virani, Addison Taylor, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Eric Yang, Peng Wei, and John W. McEvo
The effectiveness of a worksite lifestyle intervention program on high-risk individuals as potential candidates for bariatric surgery: My unlimited potential (MyUP), Chukwuemeka U. Osondu, Ehimen C. Aneni, Sameer Shaharyar, Lara Roberson, Maribeth Rouseff, Sankalp Das, Erica Spatz, Adnan Younus, Henry Guzman, and Salim S. Virani
Prevalence of ideal cardiovascular health metrics in children & adolescents: A systematic review, Justin M. Pacor, Adnan Younus, Rehan Malik, Chukwuemeka U. Osondu, Muhammad Aziz, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Muhammad Amir Younus, Ehimen C. Aneni, Erica S. Spatz, and Salim S. Virani
Statin use and its facility-level variation in patients with diabetes: Insight from the Veterans affairs national database, Yashashwi Pokharel, Julia M. Akeroyd, David J. Ramsey, Ravi S. Hira, Vijay Nambi, Tina Shah, LeChauncy D. Woodard, David E. Winchester, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Salim S. Virani
Cholesterol guidelines: More similar than different, Yashashwi Pokharel, Julia M. Akeroyd, and Salim S. Virani
Practice-level variation in statin use among patients with diabetes: Insights from the PINNACLE registry, Yashashwi Pokharel, Kensey Gosch, Vijay Nambi, Paul S. Chan, Mikhail Kosiborod, William J. Oetgen, John A. Spertus, Christie M. Ballantyne, Laura A. Petersen, and Salim S. Virani
A dataset to assess providers׳ knowledge and attitudes towards the 2013 American college of cardiology/American heart association cholesterol management guideline, Yashashwi Pokharel, Lynne Steinberg, Winston Chan, Julia M. Akeroyd, Peter H. Jones, Vijay Nambi, Khurram Nasir, Laura Petersen, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Salim S. Virani
Guideline-directed medication use in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in India: American college of cardiology's PINNACLE India quality improvement program, Yashashwi Pokharel, Jessica Wei, Ravi S. Hira, Ankur Kalra, Supriya Shore, Prafulla G. Kerkar, Ganesh Kumar Ganesh Kumar, Samantha Risch Samantha Risch, Veronique Vicera Veronique Vicera, and Salim S. Virani
Health workers’ perspectives, knowledge and skills regarding community case management of childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia: a qualitative inquiry for an implementation research project “Nigraan” in District Badin, Sindh, Pakistan, Fauziah Rabbani, Shagufta Perveen, Wafa Aftab, Aysha Zahidie, Kashif Sangrasi, and Shamim Ahmad Qazi Ahmad Qazi
Inspiring health worker motivation with supportive supervision: a survey of lady health supervisor motivating factors in rural Pakistan, Fauziah Rabbani, Leah Shipton, Wafa Aftab, Kashif Sangrasi, Shagufta Perveen, and Aysha Zahidie
Schools of public health in low and middle-income countries: an imperative investment for improving the health of populations?, Fauziah Rabbani, Leah Shipton, Franklin White, Iman Nuwayhid, Leslie London, Abdul Ghaffar, Bui Thi Thu Ha, Rajiv Rimal, Anwar Islam, Amirhossein Takian, Samuel Wong, Shehla Zaidi, Kausar S. Khan, Rozina Karmaliani, Imran Naeem Abbasi, and Farhat Abbas
Recent strategies to improve community case management of diarrhea among children under five in developing countries, Fauziah Rabbani and Aysha Zahidie
Recent strategies to improve community case management of diarrhea among children under five in developing countries, Fauziah Rabbani and Aysha Zahidie
Challenges in implementing a community based trial in a rural Pakistani district: lessons learnt from project NIGRAAN, F. Rabbani, Imran Naeem, Shipton Leah, Mehboob Beenish, Zahidie Aysha, Sangrasi Kashif, Aftab Wafa, Perveen Shagufta, and Qazi Shamim Ahmad
Policy makers perceptions regarding performance of the lady heath worker programme: is there a know-do gap? findings from the NIGRAAN project, F. Rabbani, Shagufta Perveen, I. N Abbas, Wafa Aftab, Kashif Sangrasi, L Shipton, and Aysha Zahidie
Schools of public health in low and middle-income countries: an imperative investment for improving the health of populations?, F. Rabbani, Leah Shipton, Franklin White, Iman Nuwayhid, Leslie London, Abdul Ghaffar, Bui Thi Thu Ha, Goran Tomson, Rajiv Rimal, Anwar Islam, Amirhossein Takian, Samuel Wong, Shehla Zaidi, Kausar Kausar, Rozina Karmaliani Professor, Imran Naeem Abbasi, and Farhat Abbas
Use of high-intensity statins for patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in the Veterans Affairs Health System: Practice impact of the new cholesterol guidelines, Fatima Rodriguez, Shoutzu Lin, David J. Maron, Joshua W. Knowles, Salim S. Virani, and Paul A. Heidenreich
Caregivers knowledge, practices about childhood diarrhea and pneumonia and their perceptions of lady health worker program; findings from NIGRAAN implementation research project, K Sangrasi, F. Rabbani, W Aftab, A Zahidie, S Perveen, IN Abbas, SIA Shah, and SA Qazi
Case-based educational intervention to assess change in providers' knowledge and attitudes towards the 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association cholesterol management guideline, Yashashwi Steinberg, Lynne Steinberg, Winston Chan, Julia M. Akeroyd, Peter J. Jones, Vijay Nambi, Khurram Nasir, Laura Petersen, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Salim S. Virani
Cardiovascular disease risk by assigned treatment using the 2013 and 1998 obesity guidelines, June Stevens, Eva Erber-Oakkar, Zhaohui Cui, Jianwen Cai, Salim S. Virani, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, and David Wormser
Favorable cardiovascular risk profile is associated with lower healthcare costs and resource utilization: The 2012 medical expenditure panel survey, Javier Valero-Elizondo, Joseph A. Salami, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Chukwuemeka U. Osondu, Ehimen C. Aneni, Rehan Malik, Erica S. Spatz, Jamal S. Rana, Salim S. Virani, and Ron Blankstein
Economic impact of moderate-vigorous physical activity among those with and without established cardiovascular disease: 2012 Medical expenditure panel survey, Javier Valero-Elizondo, Joseph A. Salami, Chukwuemeka U. Osondu, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Alejandro Arrieta, Erica S. Spatz, Adnan Younus, Jamal S. Rana, Salim S. Virani, and Ron Blankstein
The 2013 ACC/AHA cholesterol management guideline: Clearing the confusion from noncontroversial components, Salim S. Virani
Comparative effectiveness of outpatient cardiovascular disease and diabetes care delivery between advanced practice providers and physician providers in primary care: Implications for care under the Affordable Care Act, Salim S. Virani, Julia M. Akeroyd, David J. Ramsey, Winston J. Chan, Lorraine Frazier, Khurram Nasir, Suja S. Rajan, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Laura A. Petersen
Provider understanding of the 2013 ACC/AHA cholesterol guideline, Salim S. Virani, Yashashwi Pokharel, Lynne Steinberg, Winston Chan, Julia M. Akeroyd, Saqib Ali Gowani, Ankur Kalra, Venkateshwar Polsani, Michael D. Miedema, and Peter H. Jones
Recommendations for management of clinically significant drug-drug interactions with statins and select agents used in patients with cardiovascular disease: A scientific statement from the American heart association, Barbara S. Wiggins, Joseph J. Saseen, Robert L. PageII, Brent N. Reed, Kevin Sneed, John B. Kostis, David Lanfear, Salim S. Virani, and Pamela B. Morris
A systematic review of the prevalence and outcomes of ideal cardiovascular health in US and non-US populations, Adnan Younus, Ehimen C. Aneni, Erica S. Spatz, Chukwuemeka U. Osondu, Lara Roberson, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Rehan Malik, Shozab S. Ali, Muhammad Aziz, and Salim S. Virani
Submissions from 2015
Revisiting the economic efficiencies of observation units, Ibrahim M. Abbass, Trudy M. Krause, Salim S. Virani, J Michael Swint, Wenyaw Chan, and Luisa Franzini
Case report: A lead you can't miss: A case of right ventricular perforation, Daniel Addison, Jedrzej Wosik, Itamar Birnbaum, and Salim S. Virani
Coronary artery disease performance measures and statin use in patients with recent percutaneous coronary intervention or recent coronary artery bypass grafting (from the NCDR PINNACLE registry), Salman J. Bandeali, Kensey Gosch, Mahboob Alam, Waleed T. Kayani, Hani Jneid, Fran Fiocchi, James M. Wilson, Paul S. Chan, Anita Deswal, and Salim S. Virani
Mathematics education and language diversity: The 21st ICMI study, Richard Barwell, Philip Clarkson, Anjum Halai, Mercy Kazima, Judit Moschkovich, Núria Planas, Mamokgethi Setati Phakeng, Paola Valero, and Martha Villavicencio Ubillús
Genetics of familial hypercholesterolemia, Ariel Brautbar, Emili Leary, Kristen Rasmussen, Don P. Wilson, Robert D. Steiner, and Salim S. Virani
Is 2015 the primetime year for prehypertension? Prehypertension: A cardiovascular risk factor or simply a risk marker?, Gabriel B. Habib, Salim S. Virani, and Hani Jneid
Teacher education continuum: A case for continuing professional development, Anjum Halai
Mathematics education in a multilingual and multicultural environment, Anjum Halai and Richard Barwell
Frequency and practice-level variation in inappropriate aspirin use for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: Insights from the national cardiovascular disease registry's practice innovation and clinical excellence registry, Ravi S. Hira, Kevin Kennedy, Vijay Nambi, Hani Jneid, Mahboob Alam, Sukhdeep S. Basra, P Michael Ho, Anita Deswal, Christie M. Ballantyne, Laura A. Petersen, and Salim S. Virani
Cardiovascular disease performance measures in the outpatient setting in India: Insights from the American college of cardiology's PINNACLE India quality improvement program (PIQIP), Ankur Kalra, Yashashwi Pokharel, Ravi S. Hira, Samantha Risch, Veronique Vicera, Qiong Li, Ram N. Kalra, Prafulla G. Kerkar, Ganesh Kumar, and Salim S. Virani
Isolated cardiac amyloidosis: An enigma unravelled, Umair Khalid, Omar Awar, Gordana Verstovsek, Benjamin Cheong, Sarvari Venkata Yellapragada, Hani Jneid, Anita Deswal, and Salim S. Virani
Eligibility for statin therapy according to new cholesterol guidelines and prevalent use of medication to lower lipid levels in an older US cohort: The atherosclerosis risk in communities study cohort, Michael D. Miedema, Faye L. Lopez, Michael J. Blaha, Salim S. Virani, Josef Coresh, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Aaron R. Folsom
Implications of the eighth joint national committee guidelines for the management of high blood pressure for aging adults: Atherosclerosis risk in communities study, Michael D. Miedema, Faye L. Lopez, Michael J. Blaha, Salim S. Virani, Josef Coresh, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Aaron R. Folsom
Screening and advanced lipid phenotyping in familial hypercholesterolemia: The very large database of lipids study-17 (VLDL-17), P Elliott Miller, Seth S. Martin, Peter P. Toth, Raul D. Santos, Michael J. Blaha, Khurram Nasir, Salim S. Virani, Wendy S. Post, Roger S. Blumenthal, and Steven R. Jones
Blending for student engagement: lessons learned for the MOOCs and beyond, Amanda P. Montgomery, Denyse V. Hayward, William Dunn, Mike Carbonaro, and Carl Amrhein
Executive summary: Heart disease and stroke statistics-2015 update: A report from the American Heart Association, Dariush Mozaffaria, Emelia J. Benjamin, Alan S. Go, Donna K. Arnett, Michael J. Blaha, Mary Cushman, Sarah de Ferranti, Jean-Pierre Després, Heather J. Fullerton, and Salim S. Virani
Executive summary: Heart disease and stroke statistics-2015 update: A report from the American Heart Association, Dariush Mozaffarian, Emelia J. Benjamin, Alan S. Go, Donna K. Arnett, Michael J. Blaha, Mary Cushman, Sarah de Ferranti, Jean-Pierre Després, Heather J. Fullerton, and Salim S. Virani
Heart disease and stroke statistics-2015 update: A report from the American Heart Association, Dariush Mozaffarian, Emelia J. Benjamin, Alan S. Go, Donna K. Arnett, Michael J. Blaha, Mary Cushman, Sarah de Ferranti, Jean-Pierre Després, Heather J. Fullerton, and Salim S. Virani
Postprandial effects on arterial stiffness parameters in healthy young adults, Tyler Murray, Eric Y. Yang, Gerd Brunner, Anirudh Kumar, Nasser Lakkis, Arunima Misra, Salim S. Virani, Craig J. Hartley, Joel D. Morrisett, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Vijay Nambi
Design and rationale for the patient and provider assessment of lipid management (PALM) registry, Ann Marie Navar, Tracy Y. Wang, Anne C. Goldberg, Jennifer G. Robinson, Veronique L. Roger, Peter F. Wilson, Salim S. Virani, Joesph Elassal, L Veronica Lee, Laura E. Webb, and Eric Peterson
Differential lipid response to statins is associated with variants in the BUD13-APOA5 gene region, Sarah E. OʼBrien, Steven J. Schrodi, Zhan Ye, Murray H. Brilliant, Salim S. Virani, and Ariel Brautbar
High-sensitivity troponin T and cardiovascular events in systolic blood pressure categories: Atherosclerosis risk in communities study, Yashashwi Pokharel, Wensheng Sun, James A. de Lemos, George E. Taffet, Salim S. Virani, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Thomas H. Mosley, Ron C. Hoogeveen, Josef Coresh, and Jacqueline D. Wright
The promise of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin 9 inhibitors for the treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia, Yashashwi Pokharel, Salim S. Virani, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Relationship of the triglyceride to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (TG/HDL-C) ratio to the remainder of the lipid profile: The very large database of lipids-4 (VLDL-4) study, Renato Quispe, Raoul J. Manalac, Kamil F. Faridi, Michael J. Blaha, Peter P. Toth, Krishnaji R. Kulkarni, Khurram Nasir, Salim S. Virani, Maciej Banach, and Roger S. Blumenthal
Hospital management training for the Eastern Mediterranean Region: time for a change?, Fauziah Rabbani, Farah Naz Hashmani, Aftab A. Ali Mukhi, Xaher Gul, Nousheen Pradhan, Peter Hatcher, Mounir Farag, and Farhat Abbas
eHealth for remote regions: Findings from Central Asia health systems strengthening project, Afroz Sajwani, Kiran Qureshi, Tehniat Shaikh, and Saleem Sayani
Frequency of attainment of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol goals in cardiovascular clinical practice (from the National Cardiovascular Data Registry PINNACLE Registry), Sarah A. Spinler, Mark J. Czirak, Vincent J. Willey, Fengming Tang, Thomas M. Maddox, Tyan Thomas, Gladys G. Dueñas, Salim S. Virani, and NCDR
Calculations of financial incentives for providers in a pay-for-performance program: Manual review versus data from structured fields in electronic health records, Tracy H. Urech, LeChauncy D. Woodard, Salim S. Virani, R Adams Dudley, Meghan Z. Lutschg, and Laura A. Petersen
Implications for ezetimibe therapy use based on IMPROVE-IT criteria, Salim S. Virani, Julia M. Akeroyd, Vijay Nambi, Thomas M. Maddo, Michael A. Gillette, P Michael Ho, John Rumsfeld, Laura A. Petersen, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Provider type and quality of outpatient cardiovascular disease care: Insights from the NCDR PINNACLE registry, Salim S. Virani, Thomas M. Maddox, Paul S. Chan, Fengming Tang, Julia M. Akeroyd, Samantha A. Risch, William J. Oetgen, Anita Deswal, Biykem Bozkurt, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Laura A. Petersen
Gender disparities in evidence-based statin therapy in patients with cardiovascular disease, Salim S. Virani, LeChauncy D. Woodard, David J. Ramsey, Tracy H. Urech, Julia M. Akeroyd, Tina Shah Tina Shah, Anita Deswal, Biykem Bozkurt, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Laura A. Petersen
Metrics of quality care in veterans: Correlation between primary-care performance measures and inappropriate myocardial perfusion imaging, David E. Winchester, Andrew Kitchen, John C. Brandt, Raman S. Dusaj, Salim S. Virani, Steven M. Bradley, Leslee J. Shaw, and Rebecca J. Beyth
Can contracted out health facilities improve access, equity, and quality of maternal and newborn health services? evidence from Pakistan., Shehla Zaidi, Atif Riaz, F. Rabbani, Iqbal Azam Syed, Syeda Nida Imran, Nousheen Pradhan, and Gul Nawaz Khan Nawaz Khan
Submissions from 2014
One-year outcomes associated with using observation services in triaging patients with nonspecific chest pain, Ibrahim M. Abbass, Salim S. Virani, J Michael Swint, Wenyaw Chan, and Luisa Franzini
Novel therapies for treating familial hypercholesterolemia, Salman J. Bandeali, Jad Daye, and Salim S. Virani
Relation between playing position and coronary artery calcium scores in retired national football league players, Sukhdeep Singh Basra, Yashashwi Pokharel, Ravi S. Hira, Salman J. Bandeali, Vijay Nambi, Anita Deswal, Khurram Nasir, Seth S. Martin, Robert A. Vogel, and Salim S. Virani
Acute coronary syndromes: Unstable angina and non-ST elevation myocardial infarction, Sukhdeep S. Basra, Salim S. Virani, David Paniagua, Biswajit Kar, and Hani Jneid
Prognostic significance of hyponatremia among ambulatory patients with heart failure and preserved and reduced ejection fractions, Chirag Bavishi, Sameer Ather, Arvind Bambhroliya, Hani Jneid, Salim S. Virani, Biykem Bozkurt, and Anita Deswal
Rare LPL gene variants attenuate triglyceride reduction and HDL cholesterol increase in response to fenofibric acid therapy in individuals with mixed dyslipidemia, Feng Gao, Christie Ballantyne, Li Ma, Salim S. Virani, Alon Keinan, and Ariel Brautbar
Executive summary: Heart disease and stroke statistics-2014 update: A report from the American Heart Association, Alan S. Go, Dariush Mozaffarian, Véronique L. Roger, Emelia J. Benjamin, Jarett D. Berry, Michael J. Blaha, Shifan Dai, Earl S. Ford, Caroline S. Fox, and Salim S. Virani
Heart disease and stroke statistics-2014 update: A report from the American Heart Association, Alan S. Go, Dariush Mozaffarian, Véronique L. Roger, Emelia J. Benjamin, Jarett D. Berry, Michael J. Blaha, Shifan Dai, Earl S. Ford, Caroline S. Fox, and Salim S. Virani
Social justice through mathematics education: Skilling youth for societal participation, Anjum Halai
Reply: Frequency of inappropriate and nonrecommended prasugrel prescription: Great variations, Ravi S. Hira, Kevin Kennedy, Mahboob Alam, Laura A. Petersen, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Salim S. Virani
Frequency and practice-level variation in inappropriate and nonrecommended prasugrel prescribing: Insights from the NCDR PINNACLE registry, Ravi S. Hira, Kevin Kennedy, Hani Jneid, Mahboob Alam, Sukhdeep S. Basra, Laura A. Petersen, Christie M. Ballantyne, Vijay Nambi, Paul S. Chan, and Salim S. Virani
Small dense low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol concentrations predict risk for coronary heart disease: The atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study, Ron C. Hoogeveen, John W. Gaubatz, Wensheng Sun, Rhiannon C. Dodge, Jacy R. Crosby, Jennifer Jiang, David Couper, Salim S. Virani, Sekar Kathiresan, Eric Boerwinkle, and Christie M. Ballantyn
Pre-morbid body mass index and mortality after incident heart failure: the ARIC Study, Umair Khalid, Sameer Ather, Chirag Bavishi, Wenyaw Chan, Laura R. Loehr, Lisa M. Wruck, Wayne D. Rosamond, Patricia P. Chang, Joe Coresh, and Salim S. Virani
Implications of the 2013 ACC/AHA cholesterol guidelines for adults in contemporary cardiovascular practice: Insights from the NCDR PINNACLE registry, Thomas M. Maddox, William B. Borden, Fengming Tang, Salim S. Virani, William J. Oetgen, J Brendan Mullen, Paul S. Chan, Paul N. Casale, Pamela S. Douglas, and Fredrick A. Masoudi
Dyslipidemia, coronary artery calcium, and incident atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: Implications for statin therapy from the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis, Seth S. Martin, Michael J. Blaha, Ron Blankstein, Arthur Agatston, Juan J. Rivera, Salim S. Virani, Pamela Ouyang, Steven R. Jones, Roger S. Blumenthal, Matthew J. Budoff, and Khurram Nasir
Troponin T and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide: a biomarker approach to predict heart failure risk-The atherosclerosis risk in communities study, Vijay Nambi, Xiaoxi Liu, Lloyd E. Chambless, James A. de Lemos, Salim S. Virani, Sunil Agarwal, Eric Boerwinkle, Ron C. Hoogeveen, David Aguilar, and Brad C. Astor
Apolipoproteins do not add prognostic information beyond lipoprotein cholesterol measures among individuals with obesity and insulin resistance syndromes: The ARIC study, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Kunihiro Matsushita, Brad Astor, Salim S. Virani, Samia Mora, Emma K. Williams, Ron C. Hoogeveen, Roger S. Blumenthal, A Richey Sharrett, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Josef Coresh
Association of body mass index and waist circumference with subclinical atherosclerosis in retired NFL players, Yashashwi Pokharel, Sukhdeep Basra, Andrew E. Lincoln, Andrew M. Tucker, Vijay Nambi, Khurram Nasir, Robert A. Vogel, Nathan D. Wong, Jeffrey L. Boone, and Salim S. Virani
Neck circumference is not associated with subclinical atherosclerosis in retired national football league players, Yashashwi Pokharel, Francisco Y. Macedo, Vijay Nambi, Seth S. Martin, Khurram Nasir, Nathan D. Wong, Jeffrey Boone, Arthur J. Roberts, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Salim S. Virani
Association between lipoprotein associated phospholipase A2 mass and subclinical coronary and carotid atherosclerosis in retired national football league players, Yashashwi Pokharel, Vijay Nambi, Seth S. Martin, Ron C. Hoogeveen, Khurram Nasir, Amit Khera, Nathan D. Wong, Peter H. Jones, Jeffrey Boone, and Salim S. Virani
Improving community case management of diarrhoea and pneumonia in district Badin, Pakistan through a cluster randomised study--the NIGRAAN trial protocol, Fauziah Rabbani, Aftab A. Ali Mukhi, Shagufta Perveen, Xaher Gul, Saleem Iqbal Perwaiz, Shamim Ahmed Qazi, Iqbal Azam Syed, Khalid Hussain Shaikh, and Wafa Aftab
Evaluating regional workshops on strengthening the capacity of healthcare professional associations to achieve Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5., Fauziah Rabbani, Shagufta Perveen, Saba Wasim, Kadi Toure, Stephen Nurse-Findlay, and Naushaba Mobeen
Revascularization improves mortality in elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock, Paul A. Rogers, Jad Daye, Henry Huang, Alvin Blaustein, Salim S. Virani, Mahboob Alam, Anirudh Kumar, David Paniagua, Biswajit Kar, and Biykem Bozkurt
What is new in the 2013 ACC/AHA guideline on the treatment of blood cholesterol to reduce atherosclerotic risk in adults?, Salim S. Virani
Decrease the incentives to order lipid panels-Reply, Salim S. Virani, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Laura A. Petersen
Is high-intensity statin therapy associated with lower statin adherence compared with low- to moderate-intensity statin therapy? Implications of the 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association cholesterol management guidelines, Salim S. Virani, LeChauncy D. Woodard, Julia M. Akeroyd, David J. Ramsey, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Laura A. Petersen
Perioperative beta blockade in noncardiac surgery: A systematic review for the 2014 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: A report of the American college of cardiology/American heart association task force on practice guidelines, Duminda N. Wijeysundera, Dallas Duncan, Chileshe Nkonde-Price, Salim S. Virani, Jeffrey B. Washam, Kirsten E. Fleischmann, and Lee A. Fleisher
Perioperative beta blockade in noncardiac surgery: A systematic review for the 2014 ACC/AHA guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery: A report of the American college of cardiology/American heart association task force on practice guidelines, Duminda N. Wijeysundera, Dallas Duncan, Chileshe Nkonde-Price, Salim S. Virani, Jeffrey B. Washam, Kirsten E. Fleischmann, Lee A. Fleisher, and ACC/AHA Task Force Members
Submissions from 2013
Comparison by meta-analysis of mortality after isolated coronary artery bypass grafting in women versus men, Mahboob Alam, Salman J. Bandeali, Waleed T. Kayani, Waqas Ahmad, Saima A. Shahzad, Hani Jneid, Yochai Birnbaum, Neal S. Kleiman, Joseph S. Coselli, and Salim S. Virani
Percutaneous coronary intervention vs. coronary artery bypass graft surgery for unprotected left main coronary artery disease in the drug-eluting stents era-An aggregate data meta-analysis of 11,148 patients, Mahboob Alam, Henry D. Huang, Saima A. Shahzad, Biswajit Kar, Salim S. Virani, Paul A. Rogers, David Paniagua, Biykem Bozkurt, Igor Palacios, Neal S. Kleiman, and Hani Jneid
Association of gender with morbidity and mortality after isolated coronary artery bypass grafting. A propensity score matched analysis, Mahboob Alam, Vei-Vei Lee, McArthur A. Elayda, Saima A. Shahzad, Eric Y. Yang, Vijay Nambi, Hani Jneid, Wei Pan, Stephanie Coulter, and Salim S. Virani
Comparison by meta-analysis of percutaneous coronary intervention versus coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with a mean age of ≥70 years, Mahboob Alam, Salim S. Virani, Saima A. Shahzad, Sahar Siddiqui, Khaleeq H. Siddiqui, Shahzad A. Mumtaz, Neal S. Kleiman, Joseph S. Coselli, Nasser M. Lakkis, and Hani Jneid
The global university. how to build success? by learning from others, Carl Amrhein