Submissions from 2013
Ceruloplasmin and heart failure in the atherosclerosis risk in communities study, Razvan T. Dadu, Rhiannon Dodge, Vijay Nambi, Salim S. Virani, Ron C. Hoogeveen, Nicholas L. Smith, Fengju Chen, James S. Pankow, Cameron Guild, and W H Wilson Tang
Cardiovascular biomarkers and subclinical brain disease in the atherosclerosis risk in communities study, Razvan T. Dadu, Myriam Fornage, Salim S. Virani, Vijay Nambi, Ron C. Hoogeveen, Eric Boerwinkle, Alvaro Alonso, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Thomas H. Mosley, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Access and benefits sharing of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge in northern Canada: understanding the legal environment and creating effective research agreements, Janis Geary, Cynthia G. Jardine, Jenilee Guebert, and Tania M. Bubela
Executive summary: Heart disease and stroke statistics-2013 update: A report from the American Heart Association, Alan S. Go, Dariush Mozaffarian, Véronique L. Roger, Emelia J. Benjamin, Jarett D. Berry, William B. Borden, Dawn M. Bravata, Shifan Dai, Earl S. Ford, and Salim S. Virani
Heart disease and stroke statistics-2013 update: A report from the American Heart Association, Alan S. Go, Dariush Mozaffarian, Véronique L. Roger, Emelia J. Benjamin, Jarett D. Berry, William B. Borden, Dawn M. Bravata, Shifan Dai, Earl S. Ford, and Salim S. Virani
AMP v. Myriad: A surgical strike on blockbuster business models, Richard E. Gold, Robert Cook-Deegan, and Tania M. Bubela
Implementing curriculum change: small steps towards a big change, Anjum Halai
Mathematics teacher preparation for multilingual classrooms in Tanzania, Anjum Halai
Implementing language-in education policy in multilingual mathematics classrooms: pedagogical implications, Anjum Halai and Simon Karuku
Patients with severe chronic kidney disease benefit from early revascularization after acute coronary syndrome, Henry D. Huang; Mahboob Alam; Ihab Hamzeh; Salim S. Virani; Anita Deswal; David Aguilar; Paul Rogers; Panos Kougias; Yochai Birnbaum,; and David Paniagua
Prospects for scaling-up supervised injection facilities in Canada: The role of evidence in legal and political decision-making, Elaine Hyshka, Tania M. Bubela, and T Cameron Wild
Redefining myocardial infarction: What is new in the ESC/ACCF/AHA/WHF third universal definition of myocardial infarction?, Hani Jneid, Mahboob Alam, Salim S. Virani, and Biykem Bozkurt
Association between statins and infections after coronary artery bypass grafting, Waleed T. Kayani, Salman J. Bandeali, Vei-Vei Lee, Macarthur Elayda, Anam Khan, Vijay Nambi, Hani Jneid, Mahboob Alam, James M. Wilson, and Salim S. Virani
Interventions to reduce neonatal mortality from neonatal tetanus in low and middle income countries - a systematic review, Adeel Ahmed Khan, Aysha Zahidie, and F. Rabbani
When pictures waste a thousand words: Analysis of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic on television news, Westerly Luth, Cindy Jardine, and Tania M. Bubela
Patents and misplaced angst: Lessons for translational stem cell research from genomics, Debra J H. Mathews, Robert Cook-Deegan, and Tania M. Bubela
Discordance: Can we capitalize on it to better personalize atherosclerosis treatment?, Khurram Nasir, Seth S. Martin, and Salim S. Virani
A novel mutation in the ABCA1 gene causing an atypical phenotype of tangier disease, Smita I. Negi, Ariel Brautbar, Salim S. Virani, Aashish Anand, Eliana Polisecki, Bela F. Asztalos, Christie M. Ballantyne, Ernst J. Schaefer, and Peter H. Jones
Statins in the primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease in women: Facts and myths, Salim S. Virani
Single nucleotide polymorphisms in cholesteryl ester transfer protein gene and recurrent coronary heart disease or mortality in patients with established atherosclerosis, Salim S. Virani, Vei-Vei Lee, Ariel Brautbar, Megan L. Grove, Vijay Nambi, Mahboob Alam, MacArthur Elayda, James M. Wilson, James T. Willerson, and Eric Boerwinkle
Correlates of repeat lipid testing in patients with coronary heart disease, Salim S. Virani, Lechauncy D. Woodard, Degang Wang, Supicha S. Chitwood, Cassie R. Landrum, Tracy H. Urech, Kenneth Pietz, G John Chen, Brian Hertz, and Jeffrey Murawsky
Application of speckle-tracking in the evaluation of carotid artery function in subjects with hypertension and diabetes, Eric Y. Yang, Gerd Brunner, Hisham Dokainish, Craig J. Hartley, George Taffet, Nasser Lakkis, Addison A. Taylor, Arunima Misra, Marti L. McCulloch, and Salim S. Virani
Impact of water and sanitation and health education interventions on health and hygiene behaviors: a study from a northern Pakistani village, Aysha Zahidie and Fauziah Rabbani
Improvement in access and equity for maternal and neonatal health services: comparative advantages of contracted-out versus non-contracted-out facilities, Shehla Zaidi, Fauziah Rabbani, Iqbal Azam Syed, Atif Riaz, Peter Hatcher, Gul Nawaz Khan Nawaz Khan, Nousheen Pradhan, Hassan Fazli, Shiraz Shaikh, Yasmeen Khan, Syeda Nida Naim, and Unaib Rabbani
Submissions from 2012
Clinical outcomes of percutaneous interventions in saphenous vein grafts using drug-eluting stents compared to bare-metal stents: A comprehensive meta-analysis of all randomized clinical trials, Mahboob Alam, Salman J. Bandeali, Salim S. Virani, Hani M. Jneid, Saima A. Shahzad, Kodangudi B. Ramanathan, Biswajit Kar, Neal S. Kleiman, and Nasser Lakkis
Impact of colchicine on pericardial inflammatory syndromes-An analysis of randomized clinical trials, Mahboob Alam, Waleed T. Kayani, Salman J. Bandeali, Saima A. Shahzad, Henry D. Huang, Salim S. Virani, Kodangudi B. Ramanathan, and Hani Jneid
Outcomes of preoperative angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor therapy in patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass grafting, Salman J. Bandeali, Waleed T. Kayani, Vei-Vei Lee, Wei Pan, Mac Arthur A. Elayda, Vijay Nambi, Hani M. Jneid, Mahboob Alam, James M. Wilson, and Salim S. Virani
A genetic risk score based on direct associations with coronary heart disease improves coronary heart disease risk prediction in the atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC), but not in the Rotterdam and Framingham offspring, studies, Ariel Brautbar, Lisa A. Pompeii, Abbas Dehghan, Julius S. Ngwa, Vijay Nambi, Salim S. Virani, Fernando Rivadeneira, André G. Uitterlinden, Albert Hofman, and Jacqueline C M. Witteman
LPL gene variants affect apoC-III response to combination therapy of statins and fenofibric acid in a randomized clinical trial of individuals with mixed dyslipidemia, Ariel Brautbar, Salim S. Virani, John Belmont, Vijay Nambi, Peter H. Jones, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Role and reality: Technology transfer at Canadian universities, Tania M. Bubela and Timothy Caulfield
Recalibrating intellectual property rights to enhance translational research collaborations, Tania M. Bubela, Garret A. FitzGerald, and E Richard Gold
Genetic resources and traditional knowledge: Case studies and conflicting interests, Tania M. Bubela and E. Richard Gold
Introduction: Indigenous rights and traditional knowledge, Tania M. Bubela and E. Richard Gold
Synthetic biology confronts publics and policy makers: Challenges for communication, regulation and commercialization, Tania M. Bubela, Gregory Hagen, and Edna Einsiedel
Is belief larger than fact: Expectations, optimism and reality for translational stem cell research, Tania M. Bubela, Matthew D. Li, Mohamed Hafez, Mark Bieber, and Harold Atkins
Enabling advanced cell therapies (EnACT): Invitation to an online forum on resolving barriers to clinical, Tania M. Bubela, Amir Reshef, Matthew D. Li, Harold Atkins, Timothy Caulfield, Emily Culme-Seymour, E Richard Gold, Judy Illes, Rosario Isasi, and Christopher McCabe
Molecular typing technology: A legal perspective, Tania M. Bubela and Stephanie Yanow
Medicare eligibility and physician utilization among adults with coronary heart disease and stroke, Jerome Dugan, Salim S. Virani, and Vivian Ho
Supporting elementary mathematics education in rural Tanzanian communities: Developing relationships and international, interdisciplinary, cross-sector partnerships, Florence Glanfield, Elaine Simmt, Joyce Mgombelo, Dawn Wiseman, Anjum Halai, Iddi Makombe, Dominik Msabila, and Athanas Ngalawa
Gender equity as an element of education quality: Issues beyond access, Anjum Halai
Teachers as participants in classroom reform: Promise and perils of action research, Anjum Halai
Learning mathematics in multilingual classrooms: Policies and practice, Anjum Halai and Simon Karuku
Respecting and aligning knowledge systems in northern canada: Beyond the international polar year, David S. Hik, Tania M. Bubela, and Scot Nickels
ST elevation: Telling pathology from the benign patterns, Waleed Tallat Kayani, Henry D. Huang, Salman Bandeali, Salim S. Virani, James M. Wilson, and Yochai Birnbaum
Aboriginal rights and traditional ecological knowledge in Northern Canada, Cherie Metcalf and Tania M. Bubela
The 9p21 genetic variant is additive to carotid intima media thickness and plaque in improving coronary heart disease risk prediction in white participants of the atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study, Vijay Nambi, Eric Boerwinkle, Kim Lawson, Ariel Brautbar, Lloyd Chambless, Nora Franeschini, Kari E. North, Salim S. Virani, Aaron R. Folsom, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol calculation and goal awareness among physicians-in-training, Smita I. Negi, Lynne Steinberg, Venkateshwar R. Polsani, Saqib A. Gowani, Vijay Nambi, Varinder Kumar, Victor Marinescu, Peter H. Jones, Laura A. Petersen, and Salim S. Virani
Executive summary: Heart disease and stroke statistics-2012 update: A report from the American Heart Association, Véronique L. Roger, Alan S. Go, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Emelia J. Benjamin, Jarett D. Berry, William B. Borden, Dawn M. Bravata, Shifan Dai, Earl S. Ford, and Salim S. Virani
Heart disease and stroke statistics-2012 update: A report from the American Heart Association, Véronique L. Roger, Alan S. Go, Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, Emelia J. Benjamin, Jarett D. Berry, William B. Borden, Dawn M. Bravata, Shifan Dai, Earl S. Ford, and Salim S. Virani
Subclinical changes in serum creatinine and mortality after coronary artery bypass grafting, Daniel A. Tolpin, Charles D. Collard, Vei-Vei Lee, Salim S. Virani, Paul M. Allison, Macarthur A. Elayda, and Wei Pan
Implementation strategies to improve non-HDL-cholesterol goal attainment: Current evidence and a conceptual framework for future directions, Salim S. Virani
Associations between lipoprotein(a) levels and cardiovascular outcomes in black and white subjects: The atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study, Salim S. Virani, Ariel Brautbar, Brian C. Davis, Vijay Nambi, Ron C. Hoogeveen, A Richey Sharrett, Josef Coresh, Thomas H. Mosley, Joel D. Morrisett, and Diane J. Catellier
Chromosome 9p21 single nucleotide polymorphisms are not associated with recurrent myocardial infarction in patients with established coronary artery disease, Salim S. Virani, Ariel Brautbar, Vei-Vei Lee, Elayda MacArthur, Alanna C. Morrison, Megan L. Grove, Vijay Nambi, Lorraine Frazier, James M. Wilson, and James T. Willerson
Association between traditional cholesterol parameters, lipoprotein particle concentration, novel biomarkers and carotid plaques in retired national football league players, Salim S. Virani, Lisa Pompeii, Andrew E. Lincoln, Reginald E. Dunn, Andrew M. Tucker, Vijay Nambi, Khurram Nasir, Robert A. Vogel, Jeffrey L. Boone, Arthur J. Roberts, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol reporting and goal attainment in primary care, Salim S. Virani, Degang Wang, LeChauncy D. Woodard, Supicha S. Chitwood, Cassie R. Landrum, Franklin J. Zieve, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Laura A. Petersen
Treating chronically ill people with diabetes mellitus with limited life expectancy: Implications for performance measurement, LeChauncy D. Woodard, Cassie R. Landrum, Tracy H. Urech, Jochen Profit, Salim S. Virani, and Laura A. Petersen
Impact of clinical complexity on the quality of diabetes care, LeChauncy D. Woodard, Cassie R. Landrum, Tracy H. Urech, Degang Wang, Salim S. Virani, and Laura A. Petersen
Carotid arterial wall characteristics are associated with incident ischemic stroke but not coronary heart disease in the atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) study, Eric Y. Yang, Lloyd Chambless, A Richey Sharrett, Salim S. Virani, Xiaoxi Liu, Zhengzheng Tang, Eric Boerwinkle, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Vijay Nambi
Submissions from 2011
Conceptualising gender equality in research on education quality, Sheila Aikman, Anjum Halai, and Jolly Rubagiza
Isolated coronary artery bypass grafting in obese individuals: A propensity matched analysis of outcomes, Mahboob Alam, Sahar Siddiqui, Vei-Vei Lee, McArthur A. Elayda, Vijay Nambi, Eric Y. Yang, Hani M. Jneid, James M. Wilson, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Salim S. Virani
Variants in the APOA5 gene region and the response to combination therapy with statins and fenofibric acid in a randomized clinical trial of individuals with mixed dyslipidemia, Ariel Brautbar, Daniel Covarrubias, John Belmont, Fremiet Lara-Garduno, Salim S. Virani, Peter H. Jones, Suzanne M. Leal, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Automatic quantification of muscle volumes in magnetic resonance imaging scans of the lower extremities, Gerd Brunner, Vijay Nambi, Eric Yang, Anirudh Kumar, Salim S. Virani, Panagiotis Kougias, Dipan Shah, Alan Lumsden, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Joel D. Morrisett
Equality or equity: Gender awareness issues in secondary schools in Pakistan, Anjum Halai
Researching education research methodologies in the “South”: An introductory discussion, Anjum Halai
Implementing problem solving in mathematics classrooms: An action research, Anjum Halai, Tauseef Akhlaq, Munira Amirali Dr., and Sahreen Chauhan
Research methodologies in the “South”, Anjum Halai and Dylan Wiliam
Politics and practice of action research, Rana Hussain and Anjum Halai
Understanding the context of balanced scorecard implementation: a hospital-based case study in Pakistan., F Rabbani, Sabrina NH Lalji, Farhat Abbas, SM Wasim Jafri, Junaid A. Razzak, Naheed Nabi, Firdous Jahan, Agha Ajmal, Max Petzold, Mats Brommels, and Goran Tomson
Variability and persistence of aspirin response in lower extremity peripheral arterial disease patients, Justin Saunders, Vijay Nambi, Kay T. Kimball, Salim S. Virani, Joel D. Morrisett, Alan B. Lumsden, Christie M. Ballantyne, Jing-Fei Dong, and ELIMIT Investigators
Cardiac troponin T measured by a highly sensitive assay predicts coronary heart disease, heart failure, and mortality in the atherosclerosis risk in communities study, Justin T. Saunders, Vijay Nambi, James A. de Lemos, Lloyd E. Chambless, Salim S. Virani, Eric Boerwinkle, Ron C. Hoogeveen, Xiaoxi Liu, Brad C. Astor, and Thomas H. Mosley
Non-HDL cholesterol as a metric of good quality of care: Opportunities and challenges, Salim S. Virani
Usefulness of single nucleotide polymorphism in chromosome 4q25 to predict in-hospital and long-term development of atrial fibrillation and survival in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting, Salim S. Virani, Ariel Brautbar, Vei-Vei Lee, Macarthur Elayda, Shehzad Sami, Vijay Nambi, Lorraine Frazier, James M. Wilson, James T. Willerson, and Eric Boerwinkle
Relation of cholesterol and lipoprotein parameters with carotid artery plaque characteristics: The atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) carotid MRI study, Salim S. Virani, Diane J. Catellier, Lisa A. Pompeii, Vijay Nambi, Ron C. Hoogeveen, Bruce A. Wasserman, Josef Coresh, Thomas H. Mosley, James D. Otvos, and A Richey Sharrett
Update on therapies targeting HDL: The mystery continues, Salim S. Virani and Christie M Ballantyne Christie M Ballantyne
Barriers to non-HDL cholesterol goal attainment by providers, Salim S. Virani, Lynne Steinberg, Tyler Murray, Smita Negi, Vijay Nambi, LeChauncy D. Woodard, Biykem Bozkurt, Laura A. Petersen, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Relationship between circulating levels of RANTES (regulated on activation, normal T-cell expressed, and secreted) and carotid plaque characteristics: The atherosclerosis risk in communities (ARIC) carotid MRI study, Salim S. Virani, Vijay Nambi Vijay Nambi, Ron Hoogeveen, Bruce A. Wasserman, Josef Coresh, Franklyn Gonzalez 2nd, Lloyd E. Chambless, Thomas H. Mosley, Eric Boerwinkle, and Christie M. Ballantyne
Frequency and correlates of treatment intensification for elevated cholesterol levels in patients with cardiovascular disease, Salim S. Virani, LeChauncy D. Woodard, Supicha S. Chitwood, Cassie R. Landrum, Tracy H. Urech, Degang Wang, Jeffrey Murawsky, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Laura A. Petersen
Institutional, provider, and patient correlates of low-density lipoprotein and non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol goal attainment according to the adult treatment panel III guidelines, Salim S. Virani, Lechauncy D. Woodard, Cassie R. Landrum, Kenneth Pietz, Degang Wang, Christie M. Ballantyne, and Laura A. Petersen
Segmental analysis of carotid arterial strain using speckle-tracking, Eric Y. Yang, Hisham Dokainish, Salim S. Virani, Arunima Misra, Allison M. Pritchett, Nasser Lakkis, Gerd Brunner, Jaromir Bobek, Marti L. McCulloch, and Craig J. Hartley
Real-time co-registration using novel ultrasound technology: Ex vivo validation and in vivo applications, Eric Y. Yang, Venkateshwar R. Polsani, Michael J. Washburn, William Zang, Anne L. Hall, Salim S. Virani, Megan D. Hodge, Dan Parker, William S. Kerwin, and Gerald M. Lawrie
Submissions from 2010
Teachers’ knowledge about the nature of mathematics: A survey of secondary school teachers in Karachi, Pakistan, Munira Amirali and Anjum Halai
Lost in translation: The Canadian access to medicines regime from transnational activism to domestic implementation, Tania M. Bubela and Jean-Frederic Morin
Commercialization and collaboration: Competing policies in publicly funded stem cell research?, Tania M. Bubela, Andreas Strotmann, Rhiannon Adams, and Shawn Morrison
Cornering the market: restriction of retail supermarket locations, Nairne Cameron, Carl Amrhein, Karen E Smoyer-Tomic, Kim D Raine, and Lee Yen Chong
Gender and mathematics education in Pakistan: a situation analysis, Anjum Halai
Designing a balanced scorecard for a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan: a modified Delphi group exercise., F. Rabbani, Syed M Wasim Jafri, Farhat Abbas, Mairaj Shah, Syed Iqbal Azam, Babar Tasneem Shaikh, Mats Brommels, and Goran Tomson
Contracting of primary health care services in Pakistan: is up-scaling a pragmatic thinking, Babar Shaikh, F. Rabbani, Najibullah Safi, and Zia Dawar
Author name disambiguation for collaboration network analysis and visualization, Andreas Strotmann, Dangzhi Zhao, and Tania M. Bubela
Therapy and clinical trials: HDL-cholesterol and niacin therapy-Past, present, and future, Salim S. Virani and Christie M. Ballantyne
Preoperative statin therapy decreases risk of postoperative renal insufficiency, Salim S. Virani, Vijay Nambi, Venkateshwar R. Polsani, Vei-Vei Lee, MacArthur Elayda, Shun Kohsaka, Wei Pan, Ross M. Reul, James M. Wilson, and Laura A. Petersen
Submissions from 2009
Incidental diagnosis of interrupted aortic arch in a 72-year-old man, Mahboob Alam, Leo Simpson, Salim S. Virani, Benjamin Cheong, Pranav Loyalka, and Andrew B. Civitello
Cardiac sarcoidosis: A clinical entity uncommonly recognized, Mahboob Alam, Salim S. Virani, Leo Simpson, Stephen B. Williams, and James M. Wilson
Framing nutrigenomics for individual and public health: Public representations of an emerging field, Timothy Caulfield, Jacob Shelley, Tania M. Bubela, and Leia Minaker
Images in echocardiography: A freely floating saphenous vein graft, Vijay G. Divakaran, W Ross Brown, and Salim S. Virani
Comparative perspectives in creating gender awareness: Stories from elementary mathematics classrooms in Pakistan, Anjum Halai
Gender and mathematics education: Lessons from Pakistan, Anjum Halai
Initiating change in mathematics classrooms, Anjum Halai
Initiating change in mathematics classrooms: lessons from Pakistan, Anjum Halai
Politics and practice of learning mathematics in multilingual classrooms: Lessons from Pakistan, Anjum Halai
Efficacy and tolerability of multidrug therapy for hypertriglyceridemia, Venkateshwar R. Polsani, Vijay Nambi, Salim S. Virani, Danièle Zoch, Eric Y. Yang, Peter H. Jones, and Christie M. Ballantyne