From COURT to HOMBURG: in search of the optimal contrast agent.

current screening programme, indicate that such a cardiovascular screening programme appeals to and attracts a large audience. Persons attracted to such a programme seem to constitute a relatively healthy sample of the population, and this needs to be taken into account in the consideration of these results. However, the risk of developing future atherosclerotic disease in screened elderly men and women must still be considered quite high. A comparable screening programme will have been carried out at the ESC meeting in Stockholm in August 2001 and it will be interesting to compare those findings with the currently described data. J. W. DECKERS R. VAN DOMBURG V. MANGER CATS R. J. G. PETERS Thoraxcenter, Dept. of Cardiology,