American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2007 Final Program - (Page 5) Subjects are arranged in alphabetical order. About the Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Abstract Author Listing in Final Program . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Abstracts from Scientific Sessions 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Abstracts on CD-ROM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 AHA Daily Newspaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 AHA HeartQuarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 AHA Officers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 AHA Past Presidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 AHA President’s Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 AHA Web Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 AHA/ASA Distinguished Scientists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 AHA/ASA Scientific Councils and IWGs (Activities, Awards, Lectures, Luncheons, Dinners, Receptions, Program Committees) Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Atherosclerotic Peripheral Vascular Disease Interdisciplinary Working Group . . . . . . . 44 Basic Cardiovascular Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Cardiopulmonary, Perioperative and Critical Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Cardiovascular Disease in the Young . . . . . . . 32 Cardiovascular Nursing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Cardiovascular Radiology and Intervention . . 34 Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia . . . . . 35 Clinical Cardiology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Epidemiology and Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Functional Genomics and Translational Biology Interdisciplinary Working Group . . . . . . . 43 High Blood Pressure Research . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease . . . . . . . . . 40 Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism . 41 Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group . . . . . . . 44 Stroke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Ask the Experts Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Author Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433 Cardiac Life Support Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Coat and Baggage Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Colleague Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Committee on Scientific Sessions Program . . . . . . . . . 6 Communication Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statement . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Continuing Education Credit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Core Collection 2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Early Career Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20, 28 Emergency (See Cardiac Life Support Systems) . . . . . 21 Encore Theaters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Exhibit Advisory Council . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Family Member Badges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 First Aid Stations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Fun Walk/Fun Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Guests of Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 International Attendance Verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Laptop Lounges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Late-Breaking Basic Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Late-Breaking Clinical Trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Learning Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Letter From the Chairman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Loss of Badge Credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Lost and Found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Multimedia Products/Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Named Lectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 News Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 No-Smoking Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Opening Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Past Chairmen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 PDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Photography and Audio/Visual Recording Policy . . . . . 23 Poster Presenters’ Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Poster Sessions and Poster Competition . . . . . . . . . . 20 Posters-At-A-Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Presentations Basic Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Clinical Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193 International Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 Plenary Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Population Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385 Special Sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Program Highlights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Program Information and Target Audience . . . . . . . . . . 17 Program Objectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Restaurant Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Sessions-At-A-Glance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Sessions Itinerary Planner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Sessions Science OnDemand® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Shoulder Bags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Shuttle Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Speaker Resource Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Supporters of Scientific Sessions 2007 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Wear Red Day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Young Investigator Awards (see AHA/ASA Scientific Councils) Information included in the Final Program is accurate as of the publishing date and is subject to change. 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