| The CD40/CD40 ligand system: linking inflammation with atherothrombosis | Journal of the American College of Cardiology | 2009 | 261 |
| Complications of atrial fibrillation ablation in a high-volume center in 1,000 procedures: still cause for concern? | Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology | 2009 | 223 |
| Ischemic postconditioning: experimental models and protocol algorithms | Basic Research in Cardiology | 2009 | 172 |
| Close adherence to a Mediterranean diet improves endothelial function in subjects with abdominal obesity | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2009 | 157 |
| Regional and directional variations in the mechanical properties of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms | Medical Engineering and Physics | 2009 | 100 |
| Non-invasive methods and techniques for central blood pressure estimation: procedures, validation, reproducibility and limitations | Current Pharmaceutical Design | 2009 | 73 |
| Metabonomic identification of novel biomarkers in doxorubicin cardiotoxicity and protective effect of the natural antioxidant oleuropein | NMR in Biomedicine | 2009 | 63 |
| Cognitive impairment is related to increased arterial stiffness and microvascular damage in patients with never-treated essential hypertension | American Journal of Hypertension | 2009 | 62 |
| Dietary patterns and 5-year incidence of cardiovascular disease: a multivariate analysis of the ATTICA study | Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases | 2009 | 61 |
| Lowering interleukin-1 activity with anakinra improves myocardial deformation in rheumatoid arthritis | Heart | 2009 | 60 |
| Remote postconditioning is more potent than classic postconditioning in reducing the infarct size in anesthetized rabbits | Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy | 2009 | 52 |
| Chronic systemic inflammation accompanies impaired ventricular diastolic function, detected by Doppler imaging, in patients with newly diagnosed systolic heart failure (Hellenic Heart Failure Study) | Heart and Vessels | 2009 | 49 |
| Association of passive smoking with masked hypertension in clinically normotensive nonsmokers | American Journal of Hypertension | 2009 | 47 |
| Left ventricular hypertrophy versus chronic kidney disease as predictors of cardiovascular events in hypertension: a Greek 6-year-follow-up study | Journal of Hypertension | 2009 | 47 |
| Oxidative stress and inflammatory process in patients with atrial fibrillation: the role of left atrium distension | International Journal of Cardiology | 2009 | 45 |
| Muscle LIM protein interacts with cofilin 2 and regulates F-actin dynamics in cardiac and skeletal muscle | Molecular and Cellular Biology | 2009 | 41 |
| Association of highly active antiretroviral therapy with increased arterial stiffness in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus | American Journal of Hypertension | 2009 | 41 |
| To prevent, protect and save the ischemic heart: antioxidants revisited | Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets | 2009 | 40 |
| The effect of antihypertensive drugs on central blood pressure beyond peripheral blood pressure. Part I: (Patho)-physiology, rationale and perspective on pulse pressure amplification | Current Pharmaceutical Design | 2009 | 39 |
| Serum total selenium status in Greek adults and its relation to age. The ATTICA study cohort | Biological Trace Element Research | 2009 | 38 |
| Modification of the interleukin-6 response to air pollution by interleukin-6 and fibrinogen polymorphisms | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2009 | 37 |
| Chios mastic gum extract and isolated phytosterol tirucallol exhibit anti-inflammatory activity in human aortic endothelial cells | Experimental Biology and Medicine | 2009 | 36 |
| Validation of the MedDietScore via the determination of plasma fatty acids | International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition | 2009 | 36 |
| Impairment of autonomic nervous system activity in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension: a case control study | Journal of Cardiac Failure | 2009 | 34 |
| Five-year incidence of obesity and its determinants: the ATTICA study | Public Health Nutrition | 2009 | 34 |
