1. A role for cardiac resynchronization therapy in heart failure patients with atrial fibrillation

   • Padmini Varadarajan
   • Ramdas G. Pai
   • Gerald M. Pohost

   Editor's Commentary Pages: 387 - 388

2. Web alert

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3. We have the trophy and the winner is...

   • C. Venkata
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   Clinical Trials Report Pages: 393 - 394

4. Should we redefine hypertension?

   • Thomas D. Giles

   OriginalPaper Pages: 395 - 398

5. Hypertension in the developing world: A consequence of progress

   • K. Srinath Reddy
   • Nitish Naik
   • Dorairaj Prabhakaran

   OriginalPaper Pages: 399 - 404

6. Hypertension in black Americans as a special population: Why so special?

   • David Stewart
   • Wallace Johnson
   • Elijah Saunders

   OriginalPaper Pages: 405 - 410

7. Hypertension and kidney disease: A deadly connection

   • Yousri M. Barri

   OriginalPaper Pages: 411 - 417

8. Nonpharmacologic therapy for hypertension: Does it really work?

   • Thor Tejada
   • Alessia Fornoni
   • Barry J. Materson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 418 - 424

9. Operative risk factors in the metabolic syndrome: Is it lipids and high blood pressure or are there direct vascular effects of insulin resistance and obesity?

   • Olavi Ukkola

   OriginalPaper Pages: 427 - 432

10. Surgical risk in patients with metabolic syndrome: Focus on lipids and hypertension

    • Karol Watson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 433 - 438

11. What are the most useful and trustworthy noninvasive anatomic markers of existing vascular disease?

    • Benjamin J. W. Chow
    • John P. Veinot

    OriginalPaper Pages: 439 - 445

12. The response of lipoproteins to dietary fat and cholesterol in lean and obese persons

    • Martijn B. Katan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 446 - 451

13. Sex differences in lipoprotein metabolism and dietary response: Basis in hormonal differences and implications for cardiovascular disease

    • Robert H. Knopp
    • Pathmaja Paramsothy
    • Marian C. Cheung

    OriginalPaper Pages: 452 - 459