European Journal of Preventive Cardiology is a fully refereed journal embracing all the scientific, clinical and public health disciplines that address the causes and prevention of cardiovascular disease, as well as cardiovascular rehabilitation and exercise physiology.
It serves the interests of complementary working groups in the European Society of Cardiology and other European professional societies, such as hypertension, atherosclerosis, diabetes, internal medicine, behavioural medicine and general practice. It provides an avenue for reports of the European Heart Network, national heart foundations, non-governmental and governmental organizations, and the European Union.
Authors submitting to the journal will be asked to select the category from the following list which best describes the focus of their paper. The paper, if accepted, will be identified by that category name in the contents list of the issue it is published in:
Blood Pressure
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Coronary Heart Disease
CVD Risk Factors
Diabetes
Drug Treatment
Lipids
Nutrition
Peripheral Heart Disease
Prevention
Smoking
Sports
Stroke
Note that the Editors are keen to receive submissions from all of the above areas of research.

Editor in Chief
Massimo Francesco Piepoli
Cardiac Unit, Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital, Piacenza, Italy
Senior Consulting Editors
Diederick E. Grobbee
University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
Hugo Saner
University Hospital Inselspital, Switzerland
David A. Wood
Imperial College, UK
Deputy Editors
Eduardo Bossone
A. Cardarelli Hospital, Italy
Aderville Cabassi
University of Parma, Italy
Giorgio Chiaranda
Azienda Unita Sanitaria Locale di Piacenza, Italy
Ugo Corra
ICS Maugeri, Veruno, Italy
Michele Emdin
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Federico Guerra
Marche Polytechnic University, Italy
Jakub Regieli
European Society of Clinical Investigation, Hartdokters centre & Alert Foundation, The Netherlands
Giovanni Villani
Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital, Italy
Social Media Editors
Silvia Castelletti
IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Italy
Paolo Emilio Adami
International Association of Athletics Federations - IAAF, Monaco; Università degli studi di Roma "Foro Italico"
Editorial Assistant
Rosemary Allpress
Editorial Assistant, Italy
Board of Editors
Piergiuseppe Agostoni
Centro Cardiologico Monzino, Via Parea, Milan, Italy
Christian Albus
University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Ragavendra R. Baliga, MD, MBA, FACP, FRCP, FACC
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, USA
Birna Bjarnason-Wehrens
Deutsche Sport-Hochschule, Germany
Hans Bjørnstad
Aleris Medical Centre, Bergen, Norway
Michiel Bots
University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
Leonardo Calo
Department of Cardiology, Policlinico Casilino, Italy
Alberico L. Catapano
University of Milan, Italy
Claudio Ceconi
Ospedale di Desenzano del Garda (BS), Italy
Dirk de Bacquer
University Hospital Ghent, Belgium
Christi Deaton
University of Cambridge, UK
Konstantinos Dimopoulos
Royal Brompton Hospital/Imperial College London, UK
Oscar H. Franco
University of Bern, Switzerland
Yoshihiro Fukumoto, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular Medicine, Kurume University
Maria Generosa Crespo-Leiro
Universidade Da Coruña, Spain
George Giannakoulas
AHEPA University General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece
Stephan Gielen
Lippe-Detmold Klinikum, Germany
Francesco Grigioni
Policlinico S Orsola, Bologna, Italy
Marco Guazzi
San Donato University Hospital, Milan, Italy
Francisco Lopez Jimenez
Mayo Clinic, USA
Paul Leeson
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford , UK
Maja-Lisa Lochen
UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
Pedro Marques-Vidal
Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland
Stephen Nicholls
Cleveland Clinic, USA
Francesco Nicolini
University of Parma, Parma, Italy
Uwe Nixdorff
European Prevention Center, Germany
Antonio Pelliccia
Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano, Roma, Italy
Diego Penela Maceda
Cardiology Department, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, Spain
Joep Perk
Linnaeus Unniversity, Kalmar, Sweden
Ileana Pina
Montefiore Medical Center, NY, USA
Raul D. Santos
Institute do Coracao HC FMUSP, Brazil
Anwar Santoso
University of Indonesia, Indonesia
Jean Paul Schmid
Clinic Barmelweid, Barmelweid, Switzerland
Aletta E Schutte
South African Medical Research Council / North-West University, South Africa
Iana Simova
Acibadem City Clinic Cardiovascular Center - University Hospital, Bulgaria
Erik Solberg
Diakonhjemmet hospital, Norway
Emeline Van Craenenbroeck
University of Antwerp, Belgium
Vassilios Vassiliou
University of East Anglia, UK
Heinz Völler
University Potsdam, Germany
Christiaan Vrints
Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium
Matthias Wilhelm
Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland