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ESC Heart Failure

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

Heart Failure Association of the ESC

 

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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  • Editor-in-Chief: Professor Piotr Ponikowski (PL)
  • Current volume: 11 (year 2025)
  • Issues per volume: 6
  • Impact Factor 2023 : 3.2

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 31/03/2024
Professor Piotr Ponikowski  01/04/2024  

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Digital implementation strategy to increase SGLT2 inhibitor uptake in heart failure: Study design of EMAIL‐HF
Author(s): Mariam Elmegaard, Lars Køber, Mads Kristian Ersbøll, Theis Lange, Christian Ditlev Tuxen, Mette Rauhe Mouridsen, Trine Kiilerich Lauridsen, Jens Jakob Thune, Peter Godsk Jørgensen, Morten Lamberts, Nadia Paarup Dridi, Peter Bonfils, Morten Petersen, Nis Ottesen Stride, Anders Barasa, Jesper Jensen, Caroline Garred, Emil Fosbøl, Emil Wolsk, John McMurray, Mark Petrie, Morten Schou
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Cardioimmunologic response patterns after an acute heart failure event: Design and first results of AHF‐ImmunoCS
Author(s): Niklas Beyersdorf, Boshra Afshar, Dora Pelin, Maximilian Bauser, Elisa Kaiser, Janna Lamers, Jannika Pätkau, Mairin Heil, Dennis Göpfert, Hanna Hepp, Wafaa Al Hassan, Thomas Kerkau, Fabian Kerwagen, Roland Jahns, Valerie Boivin‐Jahns, Stefan Frantz, Gustavo Ramos, Ulrich Hofmann, Stefan Störk, Caroline Morbach
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Re‐PERFUSE: Phase 1b study of AZD3427, a novel relaxin receptor agonist, on renal perfusion in HFrEF patients
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