Published in CMAJ on June 23, 2009
Epidemiology and risk profile of heart failure. Nat Rev Cardiol (2010) 4.88
Cancer risk related to low-dose ionizing radiation from cardiac imaging in patients after acute myocardial infarction. CMAJ (2011) 3.15
Trends in risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Canada: temporal, socio-demographic and geographic factors. CMAJ (2009) 2.16
Short term impact of smoke-free legislation in England: retrospective analysis of hospital admissions for myocardial infarction. BMJ (2010) 1.95
Lifetime analysis of hospitalizations and survival of patients newly admitted with heart failure. Circ Heart Fail (2012) 1.92
30-year trends in heart failure in patients hospitalized with acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol (2011) 1.39
Trends in the incidence and outcomes of heart failure in Ontario, Canada: 1997 to 2007. CMAJ (2012) 1.27
How accurate is the reporting of stroke in hospital discharge data? A pilot validation study using a population-based stroke registry as control. J Neurol (2012) 1.18
Dramatically changing rates and reasons for hospitalization in multiple sclerosis. Neurology (2014) 1.02
Income-related differences in mortality among people with diabetes mellitus. CMAJ (2009) 1.00
All-cause mortality and serious cardiovascular events in people with hip and knee osteoarthritis: a population based cohort study. PLoS One (2014) 0.98
Ethnic and sex differences in the incidence of hospitalized acute myocardial infarction: British Columbia, Canada 1995-2002. BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2010) 0.97
The epidemiology and management of elderly patients with myocardial infarction or heart failure. Heart Fail Rev (2010) 0.95
The CANHEART health index: a tool for monitoring the cardiovascular health of the Canadian population. CMAJ (2013) 0.92
Thirty-year (1975 to 2005) trends in the incidence rates, clinical features, treatment practices, and short-term outcomes of patients <55 years of age hospitalized with an initial acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol (2011) 0.92
Epidemiology of coronary heart disease and acute coronary syndrome. Ann Transl Med (2016) 0.88
Temporal trends in the utilization of echocardiography in Ontario, 2001 to 2009. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging (2013) 0.88
Spatial variability of climate effects on ischemic heart disease hospitalization rates for the period 1989-2006 in Quebec, Canada. Int J Health Geogr (2010) 0.88
Trends of increasing medical radiation exposure in a population hospitalized for cardiovascular disease (1970-2009). PLoS One (2012) 0.87
Secular trends in acute coronary syndrome hospitalization from 1994 to 2005. Can J Cardiol (2010) 0.87
The health services burden of heart failure: an analysis using linked population health data-sets. BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 0.87
Simulating the impact of improved cardiovascular risk interventions on clinical and economic outcomes in Russia. PLoS One (2014) 0.83
Effect of marriage on duration of chest pain associated with acute myocardial infarction before seeking care. CMAJ (2011) 0.82
Trends in mortality from stroke in Austria, 1980-2008. Wien Klin Wochenschr (2010) 0.82
Trends in cardiovascular disease: are we winning the war? CMAJ (2009) 0.81
The aging Canadian population and hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction: projection to 2020. BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2012) 0.79
Observing temporal trends in cardiac rehabilitation from 1996 to 2010 in Ontario: characteristics of referred patients, programme participation and mortality rates. BMJ Open (2015) 0.79
One-year costs associated with cardiovascular disease in Canada: Insights from the REduction of Atherothrombosis for Continued Health (REACH) registry. Can J Cardiol (2010) 0.79
Estimating the payoffs from cardiovascular disease research in Canada: an economic analysis. CMAJ Open (2013) 0.78
How much are we spending? The estimation of research expenditures on cardiovascular disease in Canada. BMC Health Serv Res (2012) 0.78
Hypertension in Russia: Changes Observed After 4 Years of a Comprehensive Health System Improvement Program in the Yaroslavl Region. J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) (2016) 0.77
The impact of cardiovascular disease prevalence on women's enrollment in landmark randomized cardiovascular trials: a systematic review. J Gen Intern Med (2011) 0.77
Pain-to-hospital times, cardiovascular risk factors, and early intrahospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Ther Clin Risk Manag (2015) 0.77
Behavior in a stressful situation, personality factors, and disease severity in patients with acute myocardial infarction: baseline findings from the prospective cohort study SECAMI (the Secondary Prevention and Compliance following Acute Myocardial Infarction study). BMC Cardiovasc Disord (2011) 0.76
Heart Disease in Women: Unappreciated Challenges, GPER as a New Target. Int J Mol Sci (2016) 0.75
Impact of type 2 diabetes mellitus on hospitalization costs in older patients with acute myocardial infarction. Clin Interv Aging (2014) 0.75
Quality of Life Improves with Individualized Home-based Exercises in Critical Care Survivors. Indian J Crit Care Med (2017) 0.75
Does the association between adherence to statin medications and mortality depend on measurement approach? A retrospective cohort study. BMC Med Res Methodol (2017) 0.75
Should geographic analyses guide the creation of regionalized care models for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction? Open Med (2010) 0.75
Gaps in Medical and Device Therapy for Patients with Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction: The EchoGap Study. Open Cardiovasc Med J (2014) 0.75
Factors associated with persistent smoking after the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease. Korean J Fam Med (2013) 0.75
Chronic heart failure: we are fighting the battle, but are we winning the war? Scientifica (Cairo) (2012) 0.75
The current and future financial burden of hospital admissions for heart failure in Canada: a cost analysis. CMAJ Open (2016) 0.75
Rationale, design, and methods for Canadian alliance for healthy hearts and minds cohort study (CAHHM) - a Pan Canadian cohort study. BMC Public Health (2016) 0.75
Ischemic Stroke Rate Increases in Young Adults: Evidence for a Generational Effect? J Am Heart Assoc (2016) 0.75
Connecting cardiovascular clinical researchers through the CANadian Network and Centre for Trials INternationally (CANNeCTIN): achieving excellence through collaboration. Can J Cardiol (2010) 0.75
Acute myocardial infarction quality of care: the Strong Heart Study. Ethn Dis (2011) 0.75
Role of clinical nursing path combined with traditional Chinese dialectical nursing in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis. Int J Clin Exp Med (2015) 0.75
Tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke. The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke rt-PA Stroke Study Group. N Engl J Med (1995) 47.15
Heart disease and stroke statistics--2008 update: a report from the American Heart Association Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. Circulation (2007) 22.81
Explaining the decrease in U.S. deaths from coronary disease, 1980-2000. N Engl J Med (2007) 16.95
Myocardial infarction redefined--a consensus document of The Joint European Society of Cardiology/American College of Cardiology Committee for the redefinition of myocardial infarction. Eur Heart J (2000) 8.43
Coronary heart disease mortality among young adults in the U.S. from 1980 through 2002: concealed leveling of mortality rates. J Am Coll Cardiol (2007) 7.13
Decline in rates of death and heart failure in acute coronary syndromes, 1999-2006. JAMA (2007) 6.06
Accuracy of death certificates for coding coronary heart disease as the cause of death. Ann Intern Med (1998) 5.63
A multicenter study of the coding accuracy of hospital discharge administrative data for patients admitted to cardiac care units in Ontario. Am Heart J (2002) 4.65
Long-term trends in the incidence of heart failure after myocardial infarction. Circulation (2008) 3.52
Co-morbidity data in outcomes research: are clinical data derived from administrative databases a reliable alternative to chart review? J Clin Epidemiol (2000) 3.27
Temporal trends in coronary heart disease mortality and sudden cardiac death from 1950 to 1999: the Framingham Heart Study. Circulation (2004) 3.12
Incidence and epidemiology of heart failure. Heart Fail Rev (2000) 2.91
Results of the Ontario survey on the prevalence and control of hypertension. CMAJ (2008) 2.88
Trends in mortality from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases in Europe and other areas of the world. Heart (2002) 2.34
Coding accuracy of hospital discharge data for elderly survivors of myocardial infarction. Can J Cardiol (1999) 2.20
Validity of the recording of ischaemic heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the Saskatchewan health care datafiles. Stat Med (1995) 2.15
Trends in cardiovascular drug utilization and drug expenditures in Canada between 1996 and 2001. Can J Cardiol (2003) 1.56
Surveillance for stroke in Canada. Health Rep (1994) 1.30
An overview of the methods and data used in the CCORT Canadian Cardiovascular Atlas project. Can J Cardiol (2003) 1.06
Decline of acute myocardial infarction death rates not due to cause of death coding. Can J Public Health (1990) 0.88
Outcome of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in a population-based study. N Engl J Med (2006) 10.58
Impracticability of informed consent in the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network. N Engl J Med (2004) 9.85
The Genomes of Oryza sativa: a history of duplications. PLoS Biol (2005) 7.67
Mutations in SLC20A2 link familial idiopathic basal ganglia calcification with phosphate homeostasis. Nat Genet (2012) 3.34
The PLAN score: a bedside prediction rule for death and severe disability following acute ischemic stroke. Arch Intern Med (2012) 3.26
Potentially preventable strokes in high-risk patients with atrial fibrillation who are not adequately anticoagulated. Stroke (2008) 3.14
HIV envelope-CXCR4 signaling activates cofilin to overcome cortical actin restriction in resting CD4 T cells. Cell (2008) 2.46
Changes in the rates of awareness, treatment and control of hypertension in Canada over the past two decades. CMAJ (2011) 2.34
Sex differences in carotid endarterectomy outcomes: results from the Ontario Carotid Endarterectomy Registry. Stroke (2003) 2.28
Continuity of care and patient outcomes after hospital discharge. J Gen Intern Med (2004) 2.26
Predicting value of serum soluble ST2 and interleukin-33 for risk stratification and prognosis in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Chin Med J (Engl) (2013) 2.24
Comparison of provincial prescription drug plans and the impact on patients' annual drug expenditures. CMAJ (2008) 2.23
Increases in antihypertensive prescriptions and reductions in cardiovascular events in Canada. Hypertension (2008) 2.23
Preadmission antithrombotic treatment and stroke severity in patients with atrial fibrillation and acute ischaemic stroke: an observational study. Lancet Neurol (2006) 2.23
The potential economic impact of restricted access to angiotensin-receptor blockers. CMAJ (2011) 2.22
Trends in risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Canada: temporal, socio-demographic and geographic factors. CMAJ (2009) 2.16
Outcomes after aortic and mitral valve replacement surgery in Canada: 1994/95 to 1999/2000. Can J Cardiol (2004) 2.11
Sex differences in stroke care and outcomes: results from the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network. Stroke (2005) 2.08
The prognostic effect of cigarette smoking on stroke severity, disability, length of stay in hospital, and mortality in a cohort with cerebrovascular disease. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2013) 2.06
Aspirin use and outcomes in a community-based cohort of 7352 patients discharged after first hospitalization for heart failure. Circulation (2006) 2.05
Long-term trends in use of and expenditures for cardiovascular medications in Canada. CMAJ (2009) 2.02
The effect of universal influenza immunization on mortality and health care use. PLoS Med (2008) 2.01
Escalating levels of access to in-hospital care and stroke mortality. Stroke (2008) 1.97
Large increases in hypertension diagnosis and treatment in Canada after a healthcare professional education program. Hypertension (2006) 1.89
Risk factors for death or stroke after carotid endarterectomy: observations from the Ontario Carotid Endarterectomy Registry. Stroke (2003) 1.74
Hospitalization rates and length of stay for cardiovascular conditions in Canada, 1994 to 1999. Can J Cardiol (2003) 1.71
Cardiac arrest care and emergency medical services in Canada. Can J Cardiol (2004) 1.69
A novel computational framework for simultaneous integration of multiple types of genomic data to identify microRNA-gene regulatory modules. Bioinformatics (2011) 1.68
Reinitiation of anticoagulation after warfarin-associated intracranial hemorrhage and mortality risk: the Best Practice for Reinitiating Anticoagulation Therapy After Intracranial Bleeding (BRAIN) study. Can J Cardiol (2011) 1.66
Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in Canada. Can J Cardiol (2003) 1.64
Size-dependent localization and penetration of ultrasmall gold nanoparticles in cancer cells, multicellular spheroids, and tumors in vivo. ACS Nano (2012) 1.62
TPA use for stroke in the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network. Can J Neurol Sci (2005) 1.58
Endothelial enriched microRNAs regulate angiotensin II-induced endothelial inflammation and migration. Atherosclerosis (2011) 1.58
Improvement in stroke mortality in Canada and the United States, 1990 to 2002. Circulation (2006) 1.58
Neighborhood income and stroke care and outcomes. Neurology (2012) 1.56
Trends in cardiovascular drug utilization and drug expenditures in Canada between 1996 and 2001. Can J Cardiol (2003) 1.56
Variables associated with 7-day, 30-day, and 1-year fatality after ischemic stroke. Stroke (2008) 1.51
The impact of cardiovascular risk-factor profiles on blood pressure control rates in adults from Canada and the United States. Can J Cardiol (2013) 1.50
Outcomes among 3.5 million newly diagnosed hypertensive Canadians. Can J Cardiol (2013) 1.50
Effect of depression on five-year mortality after an acute coronary syndrome. Am J Cardiol (2005) 1.48
Burden of cardiovascular disease in Canada. Can J Cardiol (2003) 1.48
Indicators of quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction. CMAJ (2008) 1.46
Identifying priorities in methodological research using ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 administrative data: report from an international consortium. BMC Health Serv Res (2006) 1.45
Regional variation in self-reported heart disease prevalence in Canada. Can J Cardiol (2005) 1.44
Short-term outcomes after symptomatic internal carotid artery occlusion. Stroke (2011) 1.43
Stroke care delivery in institutions participating in the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network. Stroke (2004) 1.41
Increased 1,5-anhydroglucitol predicts glycemic remission in patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes treated with short-term intensive insulin therapy. Diabetes Technol Ther (2012) 1.40
Fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) and the risk of acute ischemic stroke. Epidemiology (2011) 1.40
HIV-1 DNA vaccine with adjuvant cytokines induces specific immune responses against HIV-1 infection in mice. Chin Med J (Engl) (2006) 1.38
Do all age groups benefit from organized inpatient stroke care? Stroke (2009) 1.36
Superior penetration and retention behavior of 50 nm gold nanoparticles in tumors. Cancer Res (2012) 1.29
Use of valve surgery in Canada. Can J Cardiol (2004) 1.28
Management and outcomes of transient ischemic attacks in Ontario. CMAJ (2004) 1.27
Cardiovascular outcomes after a change in prescription policy for clopidogrel. N Engl J Med (2008) 1.27
The iScore predicts effectiveness of thrombolytic therapy for acute ischemic stroke. Stroke (2012) 1.24
Indications for and results of outpatient computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging in Ontario. Can Assoc Radiol J (2008) 1.24
Mining administrative health databases to advance medical science: geographical considerations and untapped potential in Canada. Can J Cardiol (2012) 1.23
Regulatory T cells ameliorate cardiac remodeling after myocardial infarction. Basic Res Cardiol (2011) 1.21
Prediction of conformational B-cell epitopes from 3D structures by random forests with a distance-based feature. BMC Bioinformatics (2011) 1.20
Identification of a novel genetic locus on chromosome 8p21.1-q11.23 for idiopathic basal ganglia calcification. Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet (2010) 1.20
Diagnostic cardiac catheterization and revascularization rates for coronary heart disease. Can J Cardiol (2004) 1.19
Trends in influenza vaccination in Canada, 1996/1997 to 2005. Health Rep (2007) 1.19
Underuse of prehospital strategies to reduce time to reperfusion for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients in 5 Canadian provinces. CJEM (2009) 1.17
Incidence and profile of inpatient stroke-induced aphasia in Ontario, Canada. Arch Phys Med Rehabil (2010) 1.16
Time trends and geographic disparities in acute complications of diabetes in Ontario, Canada. Diabetes Care (2005) 1.16
Histone methyltransferase Ash1l suppresses interleukin-6 production and inflammatory autoimmune diseases by inducing the ubiquitin-editing enzyme A20. Immunity (2013) 1.15
Identifying protein complexes and functional modules--from static PPI networks to dynamic PPI networks. Brief Bioinform (2013) 1.14
Sex difference in hospitalization due to asthma in relation to age. J Clin Epidemiol (2003) 1.14
Outcomes of acute myocardial infarction in Canada. Can J Cardiol (2003) 1.14
Gold nanoparticles functionalized with therapeutic and targeted peptides for cancer treatment. Biomaterials (2011) 1.14
{N'-[(E)-1-(5-Bromo-2-oxidophen-yl)ethyl-idene]-4-hy-droxy-benzohydrazidato}pyridine-copper(II). Acta Crystallogr Sect E Struct Rep Online (2011) 1.12
CYP2E1 mediated isoniazid-induced hepatotoxicity in rats. Acta Pharmacol Sin (2004) 1.11
Sequence-indexed mutations in maize using the UniformMu transposon-tagging population. BMC Genomics (2007) 1.10
Community influenza outbreaks and emergency department ambulance diversion. Ann Emerg Med (2004) 1.10
Declining use of mastectomy for invasive breast cancer in Canada, 1981-2000. Can J Public Health (2004) 1.08
Determinants of variations in coronary revascularization practices. CMAJ (2011) 1.08
JURaSSiC: accuracy of clinician vs risk score prediction of ischemic stroke outcomes. Neurology (2013) 1.07
An overview of the methods and data used in the CCORT Canadian Cardiovascular Atlas project. Can J Cardiol (2003) 1.06
Experimental investigation on the competition between wideband stimulated Brillouin scattering and forward stimulated Raman scattering in water. Opt Lett (2012) 1.06
A new cytotoxic sesquiterpene quinone produced by Penicillium sp. F00120 isolated from a deep sea sediment sample. Mar Drugs (2012) 1.06
The effect of universal influenza immunization on vaccination rates in Ontario. Health Rep (2006) 1.05
Himalayan fossils of the oldest known pantherine establish ancient origin of big cats. Proc Biol Sci (2013) 1.05
Changes in cardiovascular deaths and hospitalization in Canada. Can J Cardiol (2006) 1.04
Population rates of hospitalization for atrial fibrillation/flutter in Canada. Can J Cardiol (2004) 1.04
Urgency of carotid endarterectomy for secondary stroke prevention: results from the Registry of the Canadian Stroke Network. Stroke (2009) 1.04
Age disparities in stroke quality of care and delivery of health services. Stroke (2009) 1.04
Cofilin activation in peripheral CD4 T cells of HIV-1 infected patients: a pilot study. Retrovirology (2008) 1.03
Immune complex/Ig negatively regulate TLR4-triggered inflammatory response in macrophages through Fc gamma RIIb-dependent PGE2 production. J Immunol (2009) 1.03
Dental caries status of Dai preschool children in Yunnan Province, China. BMC Oral Health (2013) 1.02
Secondary prevention after acute myocardial infarction in four Canadian provinces, 1997-2000. Can J Cardiol (2004) 1.02
Regional outcomes of heart failure in Canada. Can J Cardiol (2004) 1.02
Recombinant membrane-targeted form of CD59 inhibits the growth of choroidal neovascular complex in mice. J Biol Chem (2010) 1.02
Neuropilin-1-targeted gold nanoparticles enhance therapeutic efficacy of platinum(IV) drug for prostate cancer treatment. ACS Nano (2014) 1.00