ESC Heart Failure

Open-access research on all aspects of heart failure and its comorbidities: advancing knowledge about heart failure worldwide

ESC Heart Failure is the open access journal of the Heart Failure Association.

The journal improves the understanding, prevention, investigation and treatment of heart failure. Molecular and cellular biology, pathology, physiology, electrophysiology, pharmacology, as well as the clinical, social and population sciences all form part of the discipline that is heart failure.

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Interim Editor-in-Chief: Professor Magnus Bäck and interim Co-Editor in Chief: Professor Massimo Piepoli
Current volume: 10 (year 2023)
Issues per volume: 6
Impact Factor 2022 : 3.8

Editor-in-Chief History

Name	Start Date	End Date
Professor Stefan D. Anker	01/01/2014	31/08/2022
Professor Magnus Bäck (Interim Editor-in-Chief)	01/09/2022

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The ESC seeks highly engaged and motivated candidates for the position of ESC Heart Failure Editor-in-Chief (EiC).

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Most recent articles from ESC HF

29 Nov 2023

Sodium‐glucose co‐transporter 2 inhibitors in acute heart failure: real‐world prescription trends and outcomes analysis

Author(s): Saki Mizobuchi, Yuki Saito, Daisuke Kitano, Kazuto Toyama, Masatsugu Miyagawa, Yutaka Koyama, Hidesato Fujito, Keisuke Kojima, Nobuhiro Murata, Daisuke Fukamachi, Yasuo Okumura

28 Nov 2023

Impact of adherence to guideline‐directed therapy on risk of death in HF patients across an ejection fraction spectrum

Author(s): Xiaojing Chen, Yu Kang, Ulf Dahlström, Michael Fu