Annual acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers

Contributing reviewers

The Editors of Cardiovascular Diabetology wish to thank all reviewers, both Editorial Board Members and external referees, who contributed to the journal in 2013 (Volume 12), and whose enthusiastic support in providing the essential service of peer review continues to improve the scientific quality of the journal and enable its goals to be achieved.

Ellen Aasum

Norway

Shefali Agrawal

India

Sofia Ahmed

Canada

Sayer Al-Azzam

Jordan

Markus Sallman Almen

Sweden

Ezequiel Álvarez

Spain

Rosa Amoroso

Italy

Ethan J. Anderson

USA

Francesco Andreozzi

Italy

Alessandro Antenore

Italy

Teresa Arora

UK

Kei Asayama

Japan

Ambika Ashraf

USA

Yoshimasa Aso

Japan

Fatmahan Atalar

UK

Angelo Avogaro

Italy

Julio E. Ayala

USA

Jan Azarov

Russia

Ok-Nam Bae

South Korea

Babu Balagopal

USA

Maria L. Balestrieri

Italy

Yasuko K. K. Bando

Japan

Weike Bao

USA

Marta Baranowska-Kuczko

Poland

Darius Batulevicius

Lithuania

Christophe Beauloye

Belgium

Vitantonio Di Bello

Italy

Partha Bhattacharjee

USA

Helene von Bibra

Germany

Benjamin T. Bikman

USA

Federico Biscetti

Italy

Dirk Blom

South Africa

Mona Boaz

Israel

Yuri Bobryshev

Australia

Mauro Boronat

Spain

Luisa-María Botella

Spain

Peter Bramlage

Germany

Patrice Brassard

Canada

Helmut Brath

Austria

Charissa van den Brom

Netherlands

Claudia Bruedigam

Australia

Antonio Brunetti

Italy

Roland Buettner

Germany

Monika Buraczynska

Poland

Paul Burchardt

Poland

Lu Cai

USA

Zheqing P. Cai

USA

Philip Calder

UK

Sebastián D. Calligaris

Chile

Amadou K. S. Camara

USA

Andrea Caporali

UK

Carmine Cardillo

Italy

Claudia R. Cardoso

Brazil

Eugenia Carvalho

Portugal

Chiara Caselli

Italy

Oscar Casis

Spain

Sule Cataltepe

USA

Jan Cederholm

Sweden

Antonio Ceriello

Spain

Daniela Cesselli

Italy

Matthew Cham

USA

Eric J. Belin de Chantemèle

USA

Nipon Chattipakorn

Thailand

Rima Chedid

Lebanon

Gopic Chellan

India

Li-ming Chen

China

Wenqiang Chen

China

Zheng Chen

USA

Juei-Tang Cheng

Taiwan

Min Cheng

China

Kazuo Chin

Japan

Sungsam Cho

Japan

Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong

Thailand

Marco Ciccone

Italy

Figen A. Cicek

Turkey

Arrigo F. G. Cicero

Italy

Geraldine Clough

UK

Paolo Colonna

Italy

Daniel Conklin

USA

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Italy

Eliecer Coto

Spain

Amanda J. Cox

USA

Alberto Crottogini

Argentina

Tamas Csont

Hungary

Taixing Cui

USA

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Denmark

Hiroyuki Daida

Japan

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USA

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UK

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France

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USA

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Australia

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UK

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USA

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Brazil

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Netherlands

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Czech Republic

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Germany

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USA

Sonia Eiras

Spain

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Greece

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UK

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Portugal

Porat Erlich

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Spain

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Mahyar Etminan

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USA

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USA

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China

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UK

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Israel

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USA

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USA

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China

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USA

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USA

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South Korea

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China

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Norway

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USA

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Japan

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Ke Huang

USA

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Taiwan

Qiaobing Huang

China

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USA

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Spain

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Japan

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Fotios Iliadis

Greece

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Hong Kong

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South Korea

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Finland

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Mykola Khalangot

Ukraine

Zia Khan

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USA

Victoria L. King

USA

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Japan

Toshihiro Kita

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Japan

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Poland

Ping Kong

USA

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USA

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South Korea

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Netherlands

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India

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Abu Dhabi

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Iran

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Brazil

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Taiwan

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USA

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USA

Lei Li

USA

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Greece

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Netherlands

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USA

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USA

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Argentina

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Mexico

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