News from the 2007 Congress of the European Society of Cardiology

ADVANCE – lowering blood pressure reduces events in diabetes
Death rates with drug-eluting stents worse in STEMI patients
Women with ACS do worse with PCI
EUROASPIRE: lifestyle issues cancel out treatment benefits
FINESSE: another trial fails to show benefit of facilitated PCI
No need for clopidogrel pre-treatment in stable patients
Atheroma regression with angiotensin receptor blockade
Smoking ban reduces ACS
Bosentan beneficial in inoperable pulmonary arterial hypertension?
ARRIVE and REPLACE are announced
MERLIN suggests ranolazine may have anti-arrhythmic properties in acute coronray syndrome