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Original articles

• Left ventricle diastolic function in the patients after coronary arteries bypass graft combined with left ventricle aneurismectomy according to tissue doppler imaging: one year follow-up (8 May, 2007)

  Maryna N Dolzhenko, S A Rudenko, S V Potashev, T V Simagina, N N Nosenko, T G Kravchenko
• Is cocaine use recognised as a risk factor for acute coronary syndrome by doctors in the UK? (8 May, 2007)

  David M Wood, Duncan Hill, Awini Gunasekera, Shaun L Greene, Alison L Jones, Paul I Dargan
• The prevalence of syndrome Z (the interaction of obstructive sleep apnoea with the metabolic syndrome) in a teaching hospital in Singapore (8 May, 2007)

  Sridhar Venkateswaran, Praveen Shankar
• Effects of comorbidity and hospital care on 6-month mortality in patients with elevated cardiac troponin T (8 May, 2007)

  P Wong, A Ramsewak, S Murray, A Robinson, D Robinson, E Rodrigues
• Synergistic effect of triptolide combined with 5-fluorouracil on colon carcinoma (8 May, 2007)

  Xiao-yan Tang, You-qing Zhu, Wen-hui Tao, Bai Wei, Xiao-ling Lin
• False cardiac arrests: the right time to turn away? (8 May, 2007)

  Gary Kenward, Alan Robinson, Sandra Bradburn, Richard Steeds
• Familial aggregation and excess maternal transmission of type 2 diabetes in Tunisia (8 May, 2007)

  Imen Arfa, Abdelmajid Abid, Dhafer Malouche, Nissaf Ben Alaya, Théophile Roland Azegue, Imen Mannai, Mohamed Majdi Zorgati, Mohamed Chiheb Ben Rayana, Slim Ben Ammar, Samira Blousa-Chabchoub, Habiba Ben Romdhane, Béchir Zouari, Mohamed Koussay Dellagi, Sonia Abdelhak