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Volume 115, Issue 2; January 16, 2007,pp.157-285 Issue Highlights Issue Highlights Circulation 2007 115: 157 Editorials The Cardiovascular World Is Definitely Not Flat P. Kaul and E.D. Peterson Circulation 2007 115: 158 - 160, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.672022 Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in New York Heart Association Class IV Heart Failure: It Is All About Selection W.H. Wilson Tang and Gary S. Francis Circulation 2007 115: 161 - 162, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.669879 Original Articles Congenital Heart Disease Congenital Heart Disease in the General Population: Changing Prevalence and Age Distribution Ariane J. Marelli, Andrew S. Mackie, Raluca Ionescu-Ittu, Elham Rahme, and Louise Pilote Circulation 2007 115: 163 - 172; published online before print January 8 2007, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.627224 Coronary Heart Disease Association of Cystatin C With Mortality, Cardiovascular Events, and Incident Heart Failure Among Persons With Coronary Heart Disease: Data From the Heart and Soul Study Joachim H. Ix, Michael G. Shlipak, Glenn M. Chertow, and Mary A. Whooley Circulation 2007 115: 173 - 179; published online before print December 26 2006, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.644286 Epidemiology Elevated Homocysteine Is Associated With Reduced Regional Left Ventricular Function: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis Khurram Nasir, Michael Tsai, Boaz D. Rosen, Veronica Fernandes, David A. Bluemke, Aaron R. Folsom, and João A.C. Lima Circulation 2007 115: 180 - 187; published online before print January 2 2007, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.633750 Greater Fish, Fruit, and Vegetable Intakes Are Related to Lower Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism: The Longitudinal Investigation of Thromboembolism Etiology Lyn M. Steffen, Aaron R. Folsom, Mary Cushman, David R. Jacobs, Jr, and Wayne D. Rosamond Circulation 2007 115: 188 - 195; published online before print December 18 2006, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.641688 Health Services and Outcomes Research Regional Differences in Process of Care and Outcomes for Older Acute Myocardial Infarction Patients in the United States and Ontario, Canada Dennis T. Ko, Harlan M. Krumholz, Yongfei Wang, JoAnne M. Foody, Fredrick A. Masoudi, Edward P. Havranek, John J. You, David A. Alter, Therese A. Stukel, Alice M. Newman, and Jack V. Tu Circulation 2007 115: 196 - 203; published online before print December 26 2006, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.657601 Heart Failure Effects of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy With or Without a Defibrillator on Survival and Hospitalizations in Patients With New York Heart Association Class IV Heart Failure JoAnn Lindenfeld, Arthur M. Feldman, Leslie Saxon, John Boehmer, Peter Carson, Jalal K. Ghali, Inder Anand, Steve Singh, Jonathan S. Steinberg, Brian Jaski, Teresa DeMarco, David Mann, Patrick Yong, Elizabeth Galle, Fred Ecklund, and Michael Bristow Circulation 2007 115: 204 - 212; published online before print December 26 2006, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.629261 Hypertension Promotion of Faster Weight Gain in Infants Born Small for Gestational Age: Is There an Adverse Effect on Later Blood Pressure? Atul Singhal, Tim J. Cole, Mary Fewtrell, Kathy Kennedy, Terence Stephenson, Alun Elias-Jones, and Alan Lucas Circulation 2007 115: 213 - 220; published online before print December 18 2006, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.617811 Cardiac and Systemic Hemodynamic Characteristics of Hypertension and Prehypertension in Adolescents and Young Adults: The Strong Heart Study Jennifer S. Drukteinis, Mary J. Roman, Richard R. Fabsitz, Elisa T. Lee, Lyle G. Best, Marie Russell, and Richard B. Devereux Circulation 2007 115: 221 - 227; published online before print January 8 2007, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.668921 Imaging Subclinical Coronary and Aortic Atherosclerosis Detected by Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Type 1 Diabetes With and Without Diabetic Nephropathy Won Yong Kim, Anne Sofie Astrup, Matthias Stuber, Lise Tarnow, Erling Falk, René M. Botnar, Cheryl Simonsen, Lotte Pietraszek, Peter R. Hansen, Warren J. Manning, Niels T. Andersen, and Hans-Henrik Parving Circulation 2007 115: 228 - 235; published online before print December 26 2006, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.633339 Rapid Detection of Myocardial Infarction by Subsecond, Free-Breathing Delayed Contrast-Enhancement Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Burkhard Sievers, Michael D. Elliott, Lynne M. Hurwitz, Timothy S.E. Albert, Igor Klem, Wolfgang G. Rehwald, Michele A. Parker, Robert M. Judd, and Raymond J. Kim Circulation 2007 115: 236 - 244; published online before print January 2 2007, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.635409 Molecular Cardiology Tumor Necrosis Factor- Induces Endothelial Dysfunction in Leprdb Mice Xue Gao, Souad Belmadani, Andrea Picchi, Xiangbin Xu, Barry J. Potter, Neera Tewari-Singh, Stefano Capobianco, William M. Chilian, and Cuihua Zhang Circulation 2007 115: 245 - 254; published online before print January 2 2007, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.650671 Hyperhomocysteinemia Alters Cardiac Substrate Metabolism by Impairing Nitric Oxide Bioavailability Through Oxidative Stress Nobuhiro Suematsu, Caroline Ojaimi, Shintaro Kinugawa, Zipping Wang, Xiaobin Xu, Akos Koller MD, Fabio A. Recchia, and Thomas H. Hintze Circulation 2007 115: 255 - 262; published online before print January 2 2007, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.652693 Controversies in Cardiovascular Medicine The Case for Renal Artery Stenting for Treatment of Renal Artery Stenosis Christopher J. Cooper and Timothy P. Murphy Circulation 2007 115: 263 - 270, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.619015 Case Against Angioplasty and Stenting of Atherosclerotic Renal Artery Stenosis Lance D. Dworkin and Kenneth A. Jamerson Circulation 2007 115: 271 - 276, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.619031 Congenital Heart Disease for the Adult Cardiologist Ebstein’s Anomaly Christine H. Attenhofer Jost, Heidi M. Connolly, Joseph A. Dearani, William D. Edwards, and Gordon K. Danielson Circulation 2007 115: 277 - 285, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.619338 Images in Cardiovascular Medicine Electrocardiogram, Echocardiography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Characteristics in Uhl’s Disease Akli Otmani, Laurent Leborgne, Cédric Renard, Houssam Bakkour, Serge Quenum, Christophe Tribouilloy, and Jean-Luc Rey Circulation 2007 115: e11 - e12, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.630061 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of a Posttraumatic Myocardial Infarction and Ventricular Septal Defect With a Closure Device in Place Stephanie L. Jun, Nikhil K. Chanani, Phillip Moore, and Charles B. Higgins Circulation 2007 115: e13 - e15, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.631275 Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm With Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Obstruction: Evaluation With Doppler, Real-Time 3-Dimensional and Contrast Echocardiography Eli V. Gelfand, Dorota Bzymek, and Michael T. Johnstone Circulation 2007 115: e16 - e17, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.641043 Correspondence Letter by Ben-Dov and Bursztyn Regarding Article, "Role of Diuretics in the Prevention of Heart Failure: The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial" Iddo Z. Ben-Dov and Michael Bursztyn Circulation 2007 115: e18, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.639617 Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Role of Diuretics in the Prevention of Heart Failure: The Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT)" Barry R. Davis, Linda B. Piller, Kay Dunn, Jeffrey A. Cutler, Michael Proschan, Curt Furberg, David Goff, Stanley Franklin, Frans Leenen, Syed Mohiuddin, Vasilios Papademetriou, Allan Ellsworth, John Golden, Pedro Colon, and Richard Crow Circulation 2007 115: e19, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.651539 Acknowledgment of Reviewers Acknowledgment of Reviewers Circulation 2007 115: e20 - e30 Correction Correction Circulation 2007 115: e31, doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.180989 European Perspectives European Perspectives Circulation 2007 115: 5f - 8f Circulation JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION IIssssuuee HHiigghhlliigghhttss Vol 115, No 2, January 16, 2007 REGIONAL DIFFERENCES IN PROCESS OF CARE SUBCLINICAL CORONARY AND AORTIC AND OUTCOMES FOR OLDER ACUTE MYOCARDIAL ATHEROSCLEROSIS DETECTED BY MAGNETIC INFARCTION PATIENTS IN THE UNITED STATES RESONANCE IMAGING IN TYPE 1 DIABETES AND ONTARIO, CANADA, by Ko et al. WITH AND WITHOUT DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY, by Kim et al. Contrasting the care of patients in different countries can provide insights into the effect of clinical strategies and Patients with type 1 diabetes and nephropathy maintain higher systems on patient outcomes. Several studies have investigated cardiovascular mortality compared with diabetic patients with nor- whether the more expensive care in the United States for moalbuminuria. Risk assessment in asymptomatic patients with type patients with acute myocardial infarction provides better out- 1 diabetes is less stringent than for those with type 2 diabetes, and the comes than those achieved in Canada, where care is less effect of diabetic nephropathy on atherosclerosis in type 1 diabetes is expensive. These studies, however, have generally been lim- not well described. In this cross-sectional study of 136 asymptomatic ited by the use of administrative claims data, which lack type 1 diabetic patients with longstanding diabetes, Kim et al use clinical detail. Investigators from both countries have now cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging to reveal greater coro- made use of data sets derived from extensive medical record nary plaque burden and higher prevalence of coronary artery