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January 2010 references and further reading

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Small change adds up

Visit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service's Smallstep.gov Web site for dozens of tips on making small changes to better health.

Stealth Health: How To Sneak Age-defying, Disease-fighting Habits Into Your Life Without Really Trying, by Debra L. Gordon and Dr. David L. Katz (Reader's Digest Association, 2005)

Bringing hospital care home

Leff B, Burton L, Mader SL, et al. Hospital at home: feasibility and outcomes of a program to provide hospital-level care at home for acutely ill older patients. Annals of Internal Medicine 2005; 143:798-808.

Tibaldi V, Isaia G, Scarafiotti C, et al. Hospital at home for elderly patients with acute decompensation of chronic heart failure: a prospective randomized controlled trial. Archives of Internal Medicine 2009; 169:1569-75.

Cheng J, Montalto M, Leff B. Hospital at home. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine 2009; 25:79-91.

Statins on the front line against heart disease

Mills EJ, Rachlis B, Wu P, Devereaux PJ, Arora P, Perri D. Primary prevention of cardiovascular mortality and events with statin treatments: a network meta-analysis involving more than 65,000 patients. Journal of the American College of Cardiology 2008; 52:1769-81.

Rahilly-Tierney CR, Lawler EV, Scranton RE, Gaziano JM. Cardiovascular benefit of magnitude of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol reduction: a comparison of subgroups by age. Circulation 2009; 120:1491-7.

Kesselheim AS, Misono AS, Lee JL, et al. Clinical equivalence of generic and brand-name drugs used in cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA 2008; 300:2514-26.

How old are your arteries?

D'Agostino RB, Sr., Vasan RS, Pencina MJ, et al. General cardiovascular risk profile for use in primary care: the Framingham Heart Study. Circulation 2008; 117:743-53.

Targeting nerves to heal the heart

Schwartz PJ, De Ferrari GM. Vagal stimulation for heart failure: background and first in-man study. Heart Rhythm 2009; 6:S76-81.

Schlaich MP, Sobotka PA, Krum H, Whitbourn R, Walton A, Esler MD. Renal denervation as a therapeutic approach for hypertension: novel implications for an old concept. Hypertension 2009; 54:1195-201.

DNA "caps" offer target for heart drugs

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009.

Fuster JJ, Andres V. Telomere biology and cardiovascular disease. Circulation Research 2006; 99:1167-80.

DAPT Study

Clinicaltrials.gov, The Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Study

DAPT Study Web site