World Heart Day article collection

In honor of this meaningful day dedicated to cardiovascular health, Elsevier is pleased to provide free access to some of the top articles from our cardiology journals. All articles are freely available through October 31, 2025. Help us spread awareness and important cardiovascular research in celebration of this day by reading and sharing them with your colleagues!

• American Journal of Preventive Cardiology South Asians and cardiometabolic health: A framework for comprehensive care for the individual, community, and population - An American society for preventive cardiology clinical practice statementopens in new tab/window

• American Heart Journal Design and Rationale of Lp(a)HORIZON Trial: Assessing the Effect of Lipoprotein(a) Lowering With Pelacarsen on Major Cardiovascular Events in Patients With CVD and Elevated Lp(a)opens in new tab/window

• American Heart Journal Plus: Cardiology Research and Practice Telemedicine for the detection and management of in-hospital and out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest: Status quo and quo vadisopens in new tab/window

• The American Journal of Cardiology Comparative Prognostic Value of Risk Factors for Predicting Pacemaker Implantation After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysisopens in new tab/window

• Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases Diffuse coronary artery disease: A challenge in diagnosis and treatmentopens in new tab/window

• Atherosclerosis The Brussels International Declaration on Lipoprotein(a) Testing and Managementopens in new tab/window

• Atherosclerosis Plus Emerging oral therapeutic strategies for inhibiting PCSK9opens in new tab/window

• Canadian Journal of Cardiology Advancing Fairness in Cardiac Care: Strategies for Mitigating Bias in Artificial Intelligence Models Within Cardiologyopens in new tab/window

• Cardiovascular Pathology Temporal and demographic disparities in mortality trends for heart failure and COPD-associated heart failure in U.S. Adults: A 1999–2020 analysis of CDC WONDER dataopens in new tab/window

• CJC Open Wearable Devices for Exercise Prescription and Physical Activity Monitoring in Patients with Various Cardiovascular Conditionsopens in new tab/window

• CJC Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease A Discourse on Percutaneous Closure of the Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Premature Neonates: Controversy, Remedy, or Paradox of Choice?opens in new tab/window

• Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine Comparative outcomes of clopidogrel vs aspirin monotherapy in post- pci patients: An updated systematic review and meta-analysisopens in new tab/window

• CASE Multimodal Imaging Diagnosis of Doubly Committed Juxta-Arterial Ventricular Septal Defect and Persistent Left Cranial Vena Cava in a Goatopens in new tab/window

• Current Problems in Cardiology The top 100 most cited articles in cardiovascular research: A bibliometric perspectiveopens in new tab/window

• Heart & Lung Rising cardiovascular mortality among obstructive sleep apnea patients: United States epidemiological trends (1999–2019opens in new tab/window

• Heart, Lung and Circulation National Heart Foundation of Australia & Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Comprehensive Australian Clinical Guideline for Diagnosing and Managing Acute Coronary Syndromes 2025opens in new tab/window

• Heart Rhythm A novel ECG algorithm for accurate localization of manifest accessory pathways in both children and adults: SMART-WPWopens in new tab/window

• Heart Rhythm Case Reports A case report of persistent phrenic nerve injury by pulsed field ablation: Lessons from anatomical reconstruction and electrode positioningopens in new tab/window

• Heart Rhythm O2 Argentina’s most important contributions in the field of electrophysiologyopens in new tab/window

• Hellenic Journal of Cardiology The impact of cardiovascular drugs on hyperglycemia and diabetes: a review of ‘unspoken' side effectsopens in new tab/window

• International Journal of Cardiology Interpretation and management of T wave inversion in athletes: An expert opinion statement of the Italian Society of Sports Cardiology (SICSPORT)opens in new tab/window

• International Journal of Cardiology Congenital Heart Disease Pregnancy outcomes and effects on cardiac function among patients with Tetralogy of Fallot: A single-center cohort studyopens in new tab/window

• International Journal of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention Effects of coenzyme Q10 administration on blood pressure and heart rate in adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trialsopens in new tab/window

• Indian Heart Journal A contemporary review of the head-up tilt test: Utility and limitationsopens in new tab/window

• IJC Heart & Vasculature SAVR and TAVI comparison across the globe based on current regional registry evidence – A meta-analysis of reconstructed time-to-event dataopens in new tab/window

• JACC: Journal of the American College of Cardiology Early Intra-Aortic Balloon Support for Heart Failure-Related Cardiogenic Shock: A Randomized Clinical Trialopens in new tab/window

• JACC: Advances Longitudinal Data From the KETO-CTA Study: Plaque Predicts Plaque, ApoB Does Notopens in new tab/window

• JACC: Asia Epidemiology and Burden of Heart Failure in Asiaopens in new tab/window

• JACC: Basic to Translational Science Recent Pathophysiological Insights Are Advancing the Treatment of Venous Thromboembolismopens in new tab/window

• JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging The Last Decade in Cardiac Amyloidosis: Advances in Understanding Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Quantification, Prognosis, Treatment Strategies, and Monitoring Responseopens in new tab/window

• JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions Effect of Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors on the Progression of Aortic Stenosisopens in new tab/window

• JACC: CardioOncology Anthracycline Cardiotoxicity in Adult Cancer Patients: JACC: CardioOncology State-of-the-Art Reviewopens in new tab/window

• JACC: Case Reports The Right Ventricular Moderator Band: From Leonardo da Vinci’s Drawings to Current Cardiac Imagingopens in new tab/window

• JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology State of the Art in Left Atrial Appendage Occlusionopens in new tab/window

• JACC: Heart Failure Revisiting ICD Therapy for Primary Prevention in Patients With Heart Failure and Reduced Ejection Fractionopens in new tab/window

• Journal of Cardiac Failure The Continuum of Prevention and Heart Failure in Cardiovascular Medicine: A Joint Scientific Statement from the Heart Failure Society of America and The American Society for Preventive Cardiologyopens in new tab/window

• Journal of Cardiac Failure – Intersections Patient Perspectives on Genetic Testing in Transthyretin Amyloid Cardiomyopathy: Framing the Conversation to Improve Implementationopens in new tab/window

• Journal of Cardiology The role of POCUS in diagnosing acute heart failure in the emergency department: A meta-analysisopens in new tab/window

• Journal of Cardiology Cases Spontaneous resolution of right ventricular thrombus in congestive heart failure due to alcoholic cardiomyopathy: A case reportopens in new tab/window

• Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography Cardiac computed tomography for prosthetic heart valve assessment. An expert consensus document of the Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology (ESCR), the North American Society of Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI), the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) and Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)opens in new tab/window

• Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance reference values (“normal values”) in cardiovascular magnetic resonance: 2025 updateopens in new tab/window

• Journal of Clinical Lipidology LDL cholesterol management simplified in adults—Lower for longer is better: Guidance from the National Lipid Associationopens in new tab/window

• Journal of Electrocardiology Double sequential external defibrillation for refractory ventricular fibrillation: the science, the controversies and the future.opens in new tab/window

• Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Maternal shift work during pregnancy and cardiovascular health impacts on mother and offspringopens in new tab/window

• Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Plus Cardioprotective strategies in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury: Implications for improving clinical translationopens in new tab/window

• Journal of Nuclear Cardiology Laboratory considerations on the use of F-18 myocardial perfusion imaging radiotracers: An Information Statement from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiologyopens in new tab/window

• Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography Prevalence of Diastolic and Systolic Mitral Annular Disjunction in Patients With Mitral Valve Prolapseopens in new tab/window

• Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions SCAI Expert Consensus Statement on the Management of Calcified Coronary Lesionsopens in new tab/window

• Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases Mediterranean diet: Why a new pyramid? An updated representation of the traditional Mediterranean diet by the Italian Society of Human Nutrition (SINU)opens in new tab/window

• Pregnancy Hypertension The unintended consequences of modernity: Pollution and its effect on reproductive, maternal and fetal healthopens in new tab/window

• Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases Anti-consumption agents: Tirzepatide and semaglutide for treating obesity-related diseases and addictions, and improving life expectancyopens in new tab/window

• Progress in Pediatric Cardiology Heart murmurs in pediatric practiceopens in new tab/window

• Structural Heart Bicuspid Aortic Valve Disease: Classifications, Treatments, and Emerging Transcatheter Paradigmsopens in new tab/window

• Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine The role of finerenone in heart failureopens in new tab/window