| Coronary Artery Disease |
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Magnitude and Prognosis Associated With Ventricular Arrhythmias in Patients Hospitalized With Acute Coronary Syndromes (from the GRACE Registry)
27 October 2008
The incidence, prognosis, and factors associated with ventricular arrhythmia (VA) in acute coronary syndrome are unknown. We sought to examine the magnitude, predictors, and outcomes of in-hospital VA...
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Álvaro Avezum,
Leopoldo S. Piegas,
Robert J. Goldberg,
David Brieger,
Martin K. Stiles,
Richard Paolini,
Wei Huang,
Joel M. Gore,
GRACE Investigators
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pages 1577-1582
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Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Lifestyle Behavior Modifications Among Survivors of Acute Myocardial Infarction
13 October 2008
The impact of secondary prevention initiatives on survival in higher-risk socioeconomically disadvantaged patients after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) may depend on behavioral adaptive responsiven...
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Raymond H.M. Chan,
Neil F. Gordon,
Alice Chong,
David A. Alter,
Socio-Economic and Acute Myocardial Infarction Investigators
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pages 1583-1588
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Trends in Prehospital Delay in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction (from the Worcester Heart Attack Study)
03 November 2008
Delay in seeking medical care after symptom onset in patients with an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is related to increased morbidity and mortality. Duration of prehospital delay in patients hospi...
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Jane S. Saczynski,
Jorge Yarzebski,
Darleen Lessard,
Frederick A. Spencer,
Jerry H. Gurwitz,
Joel M. Gore,
Robert J. Goldberg
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pages 1589-1594
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Thirty-Year Trends (1975–2005) in the Magnitude, Patient Characteristics, and Hospital Outcomes of Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Ventricular Fibrillation
29 September 2008
Limited contemporary data are available describing the incidence rates, hospital prognosis, and factors associated with the occurrence of ventricular fibrillation (VF) in patients hospitalized with ac...
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Robert J. Goldberg,
Jorge Yarzebski,
Frederick A. Spencer,
Juan C. Zevallos,
Darleen Lessard,
Joel M. Gore
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pages 1595-1601
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Relation of Epicardial Adipose Tissue to Coronary Atherosclerosis
17 October 2008
Adipose tissue surrounding the coronary arteries has been suggested to induce development of atherosclerosis. We explored the relation between epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) volume and coronary ather...
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Roxana Djaberi,
Joanne D. Schuijf,
Jacob M. van Werkhoven,
Gaetano Nucifora,
J. Wouter Jukema,
Jeroen J. Bax
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pages 1602-1607
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Comparison of Angiographic and Intravascular Ultrasonic Detection of Myocardial Bridging of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery
22 September 2008
The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence, location, and clinical features of myocardial bridging (MB) detected by intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and to compare IVUS-detectable versus ...
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Kenichi Tsujita,
Akiko Maehara,
Gary S. Mintz,
Hiroshi Doi,
Takashi Kubo,
Celia Castellanos,
Jian Liu,
Junqing Yang,
Carlos Oviedo,
Theresa Franklin-Bond,
Neil Dasgupta,
Sinan Biro,
Lokesh Dani,
George D. Dangas,
Roxana Mehran,
Ajay J. Kirtane,
Alexandra J. Lansky,
Edward M. Kreps,
Michael B. Collins,
Gregg W. Stone,
Jeffrey W. Moses,
Martin B. Leon
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pages 1608-1613
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Impact of “Nuisance” Bleeding on Clopidogrel Compliance in Patients Undergoing Intracoronary Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation
29 September 2008
Premature cessation of clopidogrel is a strong risk factor for drug-eluting stent thrombosis in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention. The impact that superficial or “nuisance” bleedi...
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Probal Roy,
Laurent Bonello,
Rebecca Torguson,
Axel de Labriolle,
Gilles Lemesle,
Tina L. Pinto Slottow,
Daniel H. Steinberg,
Kimberly Kaneshige,
Zhenyi Xue,
Lowell F. Satler,
Kenneth M. Kent,
William O. Suddath,
Augusto D. Pichard,
Joseph Lindsay,
Ron Waksman
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pages 1614-1617
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Long-Term Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Coronary Stenting on Dual Oral Antiplatelet Treatment Requiring Oral Anticoagulant Therapy
26 September 2008
In patients undergoing coronary stenting, long-term dual antiplatelet therapy with aspirin and clopidogrel reduces atherothrombotic events but also increases the risk of bleeding. The potential for de...
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Roberta Rossini,
Giuseppe Musumeci,
Corrado Lettieri,
Maria Molfese,
Laurian Mihalcsik,
Paola Mantovani,
Vasile Sirbu,
Theodore A. Bass,
Francesco Della Rovere,
Antonello Gavazzi,
Dominick J. Angiolillo
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pages 1618-1623
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Overview of the 2007 Food and Drug Administration Circulatory System Devices Panel Meeting on the Xience V Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent
26 September 2008
The Xience V Everolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent System (Abbott Vascular, Santa Clara, California) drug-eluting stent (DES) is the most recent stent to undergo an extensive evaluation based on the initi...
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Rebecca Torguson,
Ron Waksman
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Review article
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pages 1624-1630
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AJC Editor's Consensus: Psoriasis and Coronary Artery Disease
This CME activity is supported by an educational grant from Amgen, Thousand Oaks, California.
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Vincent E. Friedewald,
Jennifer C. Cather,
Joel M. Gelfand,
Kenneth B. Gordon,
Gary H. Gibbons,
Scott M. Grundy,
Michael T. Jarratt,
James G. Krueger,
Paul M. Ridker,
Neil Stone,
William C. Roberts
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Discussion
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pages 1631-1643
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| Roundtable Discussion (CME) |
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The Editor's Roundtable: The Vulnerable Plaque
This CME activity is supported by an educational grant from GE Healthcare, Piscataway, New Jersey.
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Vincent E. Friedewald,
John A. Ambrose,
Gregory W. Stone,
William C. Roberts,
James T. Willerson
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Discussion
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pages 1644-1653
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| Preventive Cardiology |
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Comparison of Benefits and Risks of Rosuvastatin Versus Atorvastatin from a Meta-Analysis of Head-to-Head Randomized Controlled Trials
22 September 2008
The benefit from statin therapy is proportional to the low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol reduction. However, adverse events appear to be related to dose rather than LDL cholesterol reduction. ...
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John Wlodarczyk,
David Sullivan,
Michael Smith
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pages 1654-1662
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Change in High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Incident Coronary Heart Disease in Apparently Healthy Male Physicians
The association between change in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol and risk of subsequent coronary heart disease (CHD) is unclear. Change in HDL cholesterol was calculated in a prospective c...
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Catherine Rahilly-Tierney,
Thomas S. Bowman,
Luc Djoussé,
Howard D. Sesso,
J. Michael Gaziano
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pages 1663-1667
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The Case for Chronic Kidney Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, and Myocardial Infarction Being Equivalent Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Mortality in Patients Older Than 65 Years
27 October 2008
The objective of the study was to determine whether chronic kidney disease (CKD) is as important a risk as either diabetes mellitus (DM) or previous myocardial infarction (MI). CKD and DM are importan...
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Arash Rashidi,
Ashwini Reddi Sehgal,
Mahboob Rahman,
Andrew Stenson O' Connor
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pages 1668-1673
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| Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances |
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Feasibility and Safety of Remote-Controlled Magnetic Navigation for Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation
03 November 2008
Radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation (AF) involves complex catheter manipulation resulting in prolonged procedure time and fluoroscopy exposure. Remote magnetic navigation (RMN) represents ...
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William T. Katsiyiannis,
Daniel P. Melby,
Jayme L. Matelski,
Vanessa L. Ervin,
Kerri L. Laverence,
Charles C. Gornick
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pages 1674-1676
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| Systemic Hypertension |
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Effect of Comprehensive Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes on Prehypertension
27 October 2008
Although national clinical guidelines promulgate therapeutic lifestyle changes (TLC) as a cornerstone in the management of prehypertension, there is a perceived ineffectiveness of TLC in the real worl...
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Venkata V. Bavikati,
Laurence S. Sperling,
Richard D. Salmon,
George C. Faircloth,
Terri L. Gordon,
Barry A. Franklin,
Neil F. Gordon
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pages 1677-1680
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| Heart Failure |
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Digoxin and Reduction of Heart Failure Hospitalization in Chronic Systolic and Diastolic Heart Failure
20 October 2008
In the Digitalis Investigation Group trial, digoxin-associated decrease in the combined end point of heart failure (HF) hospitalization or HF mortality was significant in systolic but not in diastolic...
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Philippe Meyer,
Michel White,
Marjan Mujib,
Anna Nozza,
Thomas E. Love,
Inmaculada Aban,
James B. Young,
William H. Wehrmacher,
Ali Ahmed
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pages 1681-1686
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Dual-Site Left Ventricular Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
22 September 2008
Simultaneous stimulation of 2 left ventricular (LV) sites could enhance the effectiveness of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). The aim of this study was to evaluate the acute hemodynamic respon...
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Luigi Padeletti,
Andrea Colella,
Antonio Michelucci,
Paolo Pieragnoli,
Giuseppe Ricciardi,
Maria Cristina Porciani,
Francesca Tronconi,
Douglas A. Hettrick,
Sergio Valsecchi
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pages 1687-1692
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Influence of Hospital Length of Stay for Heart Failure on Quality of Care
02 October 2008
Adherence to treatment guidelines during hospital admissions for heart failure impacts readmissions and mortality. However, the relation between guideline adherence and heart failure hospital length o...
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Mori J. Krantz,
Justin Tanner,
Tamara B. Horwich,
Clyde Yancy,
Nancy M. Albert,
Adrian F. Hernandez,
David Dai,
Gregg C. Fonarow,
Get With the Guidelines Steering Committee and Hospitals
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pages 1693-1697
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Relation of Systolic Blood Pressure to Survival in Both Ischemic and Nonischemic Systolic Heart Failure
22 September 2008
High systolic blood pressure (SBP) is a predictor of survival for patients with heart failure (HF). Whether SBP predicts survival in both ischemic and nonischemic HF has not been well examined. We ana...
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Richard K. Cheng,
Tamara B. Horwich,
Gregg C. Fonarow
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pages 1698-1705
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Relation of Statin Therapy to Risk of Heart Failure After Acute Myocardial Infarction
22 September 2008
Recent studies suggest that statin therapy reduces hospitalizations for heart failure (HF). However, few data exist regarding the role of statins in preventing HF after acute myocardial infarction (AM...
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Doron Aronson,
Diab Mutlak,
Jonathan Lessick,
Michael Kapeliovich,
Salim Dabbah,
Walter Markiewicz,
Rafael Beyar,
Haim Hammerman,
Shimon Reisner,
Yoram Agmon
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pages 1706-1710
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Comparison of Late Mortality in Hospitalized Patients >70 Years of Age With Systolic Heart Failure Receiving Beta Blockers Versus Those Not Receiving Beta Blockers
22 September 2008
Beta blockers are underprescribed to elderly patients with systolic heart failure (HF). We studied whether the prescription of a β blocker is associated with a survival benefit in a nonselected popula...
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Domingo A. Pascual-Figal,
Belen Redondo,
Cesar Caro,
Sergio Manzano,
Iris P. Garrido,
Juan A. Ruipérez,
Mariano Valdés
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pages 1711-1717
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| Cardiomyopathy |
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Prognostic Implications of Coronary Flow Reserve on Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
13 October 2008
The aim of the study was to prospectively evaluate a cohort of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HC) after coronary flow reserve (CFR) assessment of the left anterior descending coronary arte...
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Lauro Cortigiani,
Fausto Rigo,
Sonia Gherardi,
Maurizio Galderisi,
Rosa Sicari,
Eugenio Picano
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pages 1718-1723
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| Congenital Heart Disease |
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Effect of Operation for Ebstein Anomaly on Left Ventricular Function
02 October 2008
Our objective was to examine the outcomes of patients with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction who underwent operation for Ebstein anomaly. From April 1, 1972 to January 1, 2006, 539 patients with Ebste...
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Morgan L. Brown,
Joseph A. Dearani,
Gordon K. Danielson,
Frank Cetta,
Heidi M. Connolly,
Carole A. Warnes,
Zhuo Li,
David O. Hodge,
David J. Driscoll
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pages 1724-1727
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Erectile Dysfunction in Men With Congenital Heart Disease
26 September 2008
There has been a tremendous focus on gynecologic health with the increasing number of women with congenital heart disease (CHD). Conversely, experience in providing sexual health screening to men with...
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Stephen C. Cook,
Lindsay M. Arnott,
Lisa M. Nicholson,
Lindsay R. Cook,
Elizabeth A. Sparks,
Curt J. Daniels
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pages 1728-1730
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Impact of Right Ventricular Volume Overload on Three-Dimensional Global Left Ventricular Mechanical Dyssynchrony After Surgical Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot
02 October 2008
This study aimed to test the hypothesis that right ventricular (RV) volume overload may result in left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction through induction of LV systolic dyssynchrony after tetralo...
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Xue-cun Liang,
Eddie Wai-yin Cheung,
Sophia Jessica Wong,
Yiu-fai Cheung
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pages 1731-1736
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Hybrid Intraoperative Pulmonary Artery Stent Placement for Congenital Heart Disease
13 October 2008
Percutaneous branch pulmonary artery (PA) stenting can be challenging, especially in patients with stenosis of the right ventricular (RV) outflow tract or tortuous PA branches. In these cases, a hybri...
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Shaji C. Menon,
Frank Cetta,
Joseph A. Dearani,
Harold A. Burkhart,
Allison K. Cabalka,
Donald J. Hagler
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pages 1737-1741
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| Miscellaneous |
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Acute Mortality in Hospitalized Patients Undergoing Echocardiography With and Without an Ultrasound Contrast Agent (Multicenter Registry Results in 4,300,966 Consecutive Patients)
27 October 2008
We sought to define acute mortality in a large multicenter cohort of hospitalized patients undergoing clinically indicated echocardiography with and without use of an ultrasound contrast agent. Althou...
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Michael L. Main,
Amy C. Ryan,
Teresa E. Davis,
Maureen P. Albano,
Lisa L. Kusnetzky,
Mark Hibberd
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pages 1742-1746
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Author Index
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Index
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pages E1-E7
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Subject Index
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Index
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pages E8-E26
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| Frontmatter |
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Editorial Board
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Editorial board
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page A2
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Contents
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Contents list
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page A4
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