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Editorials

Reducing the lifetime cardiovascular risk of New Zealanders

Ralph A Stewart, Harvey D White

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Trading PREDICTions

Brian Cox

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Original Articles

The impact of New Zealand CVD risk chart adjustments for family history and ethnicity on eligibility for treatment (PREDICT CVD-5)

Susan Wells, Andrew Kerr, Joanna Broad, Tania Riddell, Tim Kenealy, Rod Jackson

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Issues in the assessment of cardiovascular risk in selected general practices in Canterbury, New Zealand

Ian Sheerin, Greg Hamilton, Alistair Humphrey, Alf Scragg

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Accuracy of the Wells Rule in diagnosing deep vein thrombosis in primary health care

Maelen Tagelagi, C Raina Elley

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Survival over 5 years in the initial hospital survivors with acute coronary syndrome: a comparison between a community hospital and a tertiary hospital in New Zealand

Cheuk-Kit Wong, Eng Wei Tang, Peter Herbison

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Review Article

Blue-collar workplaces: a setting for reducing heart health inequalities in New Zealand?

Brad Novak, Chris Bullen, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Simon Thornley

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Viewpoint

Is it time to stop treating dyslipidaemia with fibrates?

Jocelyne R Benatar, Ralph A Stewart

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Clinical Correspondence

Sudden cardiac death in the young: don’t forget abnormal coronary arteries!

Ali Khan, Jim Stewart, Warren Smith

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A 40-year-old woman with breathlessness

Ami Kamdar, Andrew F Muller, Stamatis Kapetanakis, Louise Thompson, David A Lythall

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100 Years Ago in the NZMJ

Increasing inability of mothers to suckle their offspring

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Medical Image

Radiologic evolution of pulmonary thromboembolism with infarct

Sheng-Hsiang Lin, Tsu-Tuan Wu

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Methuselah

Selected excerpts from Methuselah

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Letters

Campylobacter infection and chicken: an update on New Zealand’s largest ‘common source outbreak’

Michael Baker, Nick Wilson, Richard Edwards

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Regarding the ‘Phytophotodermatitis caused by contact with a fig tree (Ficus carica)’ case report, and response

Tony E J Fitchett, José G B Derraik, Marius Rademaker

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Regarding the 'Five-year experience of corneal scrapes at Wellington Eye Department, New Zealand' article

Subhash C Arya, Raj Anand

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Obituaries

Geoffrey Buckland Orbell

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Margaret Stuart Smith

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Vincent John Murphy

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Erratum

Phytophotodermatitis caused by contact with a fig tree (Ficus carica)

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