CardioPulse Articles * CardioPulse Survey series: Germany * The strengths and limitations of the German health-care system * Book review Podrid's Real-world ECGs: A Master's Approach to the Art and Practice of Clinical ECG Interpretation. Volume 1: The Basics * Childhood emotional distress raises adult cardiovascular disease risk * People's corner * New Associate European Heart Journal Editor Udo Sechtem * Additional history on myocardial infarction, from the seventeenth century to the present