Selected Updates

• International Chair/Committee on Cardiometabolic Risk Announced
• STEMI 2006: The First 24 Hrs
• Point-Counterpoint: Controversies in Device Implantation and Management
• Risk Stratification Techniques for Sudden Death
• What You Need to Know about Degenerative Mitral Valve Regurgitation in 2006
• Modern Management of Chronic Heart Failure: From Stage a to Stage D and beyond
• Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure: Convergence of Two Epidemics
• Progression from Hypertension to Heart Failure: Mechanisms, Epidemiology, and Prevention
• Risk Assessment: Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity
• Metabolic Management of the Patient with Ischemic Heart Disease: Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome
• Diabetes Education Initiative Program
• Cardiovascular Imaging: New Tools, Professional Imperatives
• Poster Session Highlights: Diastolic Heart Failure