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Open Heart

is an open access journal by BMJ and BCS, publishing original research in cardiovascular medicine.

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Open Heart is dedicated to publishing high quality, peer reviewed medical research in all disciplines and therapeutic areas of cardiovascular medicine. Research is published across all study phases and designs, from protocols to phase I trials to meta-analyses, including small or specialist studies. Opinionated discussions on controversial topics are welcomed.

Open Heart is the open access companion to Heart and is an official journal of the British Cardiovascular Society.

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Editor-in-Chief: Professor Ganesan Karthikeyan, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, India
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Open Heart considers submissions of a variety of article types, including original research articles, study protocols and occasional review articles. Responses to published work are also welcomed.

Information is also provided on editorial policies and open access.

This is an open access journal that levies an Article Publishing Charge (APC). Discounts and waivers are available; details are provided in the Author Information section.

All manuscripts should be submitted online.

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Latest Articles

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies:

Hyperuricaemia elevates risk of short-term readmission and mortality in patients with heart failure

31 October 2024

Coronary artery disease:

Predicting troponin biomarker elevation from electrocardiograms using a deep neural network

30 October 2024

Arrhythmias and sudden death:

Cardiac remodelling in patients with atrial fibrillation and obstructive sleep apnoea

30 October 2024

Valvular heart disease:

Mitral-specific cardiac damage score (m-CDS) predicts risk of death in functional mitral regurgitation: a study from the National Echo Database of Australia

27 October 2024

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies:

Prognostic value of multimodality imaging in the contemporary management of cardiac sarcoidosis

27 October 2024

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Association between espresso coffee and serum total cholesterol: the Tromsø Study 2015–2016
10 May 2022

Relationships between hyperinsulinaemia, magnesium, vitamin D, thrombosis and COVID-19: rationale for clinical management
16 September 2020

Hiding unhealthy heart outcomes in a low-fat diet trial: the Women’s Health Initiative Randomized Controlled Dietary Modification Trial finds that postmenopausal women with established coronary heart disease were at increased risk of an adverse outcome if they consumed a low-fat ‘heart-healthy’ diet
21 July 2021

Anti-inflammatory activity of ivermectin in late-stage COVID-19 may reflect activation of systemic glycine receptors
19 April 2021

Nationwide prevalence and characteristics of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy in Sweden
13 October 2021

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