INTRODUCING CLINICAL RESEARCH

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine is delighted to unveil its new Clinical Research section.

If you are interested in having your research articles published in this journal, see our information for authors, and learn how to submit a paper. First research papers to be published are:

Time course of events in acute coronary syndromes: implications for clinical practice from the GRACE registry – Fox KAA et al.
doi:10.1038/ncpcardio1302

Contribution of patient and physician factors to cardiac rehabilitation referral: a prospective multilevel study – Grace SL et al.
doi:10.1038/ncpcardio1272

Inhibition of microsomal triglyceride transfer protein alone or with ezetimibe in patients with moderate hypercholesterolemia – Samaha et al.
doi:10.1038/ncpcardio1250

Table of Contents: September 2008

Free featured article

The evolving role of regulatory T cells in atherosclerosis

Jacob George

The immune system is instrumental in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. Establishing the role of regulatory T cells in atherosclerosis holds great potential for the development of novel therapeutic modalities to attenuate atherosclerosis and stabilize vulnerable plaques.

Free featured article

Low-cost strategies to predict cardiovascular disease

Peter WF Wilson and KM Venkat Narayan

Wilson and Narayan examine whether low-cost screening algorithms could enhance existing screening and prevention programs. They discuss the issue of validity and how to take the next step—testing the usefulness of these low-cost prediction models in developing regions.

Call for Papers

Calling now for original research submissions

Maximise the visibility and impact of your research and be one of the first to be published in the new Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine Clinical Research section.

We are now welcoming submissions from any area of cardiology and we're interested in the following types of papers:

– Randomized, controlled trials
– Systematic reviews/meta-analyses
– Observational studies
– Epidemiological studies
– Translational studies

To find out more visit www.nature.com/ncpcardio/
originalresearch.

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