Risk Stratification in Arrhythmic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Without Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators.

Objectives: The primary objective of this study is risk stratification of patients with arrhythmic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC).

Background: There is a need to identify those who need an automatic implantable defibrillator (ICD) to prevent sudden death.

Methods: This is an analysis of 88 patients with ARVC from three centers who were not treated with an ICD.

Trans-ancestry genome-wide association study identifies 12 genetic loci influencing blood pressure and implicates a role for DNA methylation.

We carried out a trans-ancestry genome-wide association and replication study of blood pressure phenotypes among up to 320,251 individuals of East Asian, European and South Asian ancestry. We find genetic variants at 12 new loci to be associated with blood pressure (P = 3.9 × 10(-11) to 5.

NVVC/NHJ Durrer prizes 2013.

At the annual Spring Congress of the NVVC, the Durrer prizes were awarded to the authors of two of the best original/review articles published in the year 2013, one paper being more basically oriented and one paper being more clinically oriented. This annual tradition has existed since the year 2006.

NVVC/NHJ Durrer Prizes 2012.

At the annual Spring Congress of the NVVC the Durrer prizes were awarded to the authors of the best original/review articles published in the year 2012, one paper being more basically-oriented and one paper being more clinically-oriented. This annual tradition exists already since the year 2006.

Statement on matching language to the type of evidence used in describing outcomes data.

All scientific manuscripts should be written and edited not only for scientific accuracy but also for appropriateness of language used in describing the level of evidence. Therefore, the editors of the HEART Group (representing the world's cardiovascular journals) recommend that all investigators and editors carefully select language to 'match' the type of study conducted.