title: Hotline update of clinical trials and registries presented at the American College of Cardiology Congress 2010: ACCORD, INVEST, NAVIGATOR, RACE II, SORT OUT III, CSP-474, DOSE, ASPIRE and more.
abstract: This article gives an overview on a number of novel clinical trials in the field of cardiovascular medicine, which were presented during the Late Breaking Clinical Trial Sessions at the 59th annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta, USA, from 14th March to 16th March 2010. The data were presented by leading experts in the field with relevant positions in the trials. These comprehensive summaries should provide the readers with the most recent data on diagnostic and therapeutic developments in cardiovascular medicine similar as previously reported (Schirmer SH, van der Laan AM, Bohm M, Mahfoud F in Clin Res Cardiol 98:691-699, 2009; Maier LS, Schirmer SH, Walenta K, Jacobshagen C, Bohm M in Clin Res Cardiol 98:413-419, 2009).
authors.affiliation: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Herzzentrum, Abt. Kardiologie und Pneumologie, Robert-Koch-Str. 40, 37075, Göttingen, Germany. jacobshagen@med.uni-goettingen.de
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jacobshagen
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Westermann
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authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Holubarsch
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Böhm
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006801:Humans; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D012955:Societies, Medical
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