BMC Medicine is calling for submissions to our Collection on cardiomyopathies and cardiac arrhythmias. These include unknown etiology, lifestyle factors, and inherited cardiac conditions. Understanding the clinical characteristics, risk factors, and patterns of these cardiovascular diseases is essential to facilitate prevention, early diagnosis, and improve treatment strategies.
Advancing our collective understanding of cardiomyopathies, inherited conditions, and arrhythmias is vital for several reasons. First, it informs the development of novel therapies such as pulsed-field ablation and factor XI inhibition, which hint at safer, refined interventions. Furthermore, research highlights the importance of family screening and genetic counselling, which can help mitigate the risks associated with inherited cardiac conditions. Finally, increasing atrial fibrillation prevalence means it will become a public health challenge in future decades. Continued exploration in these fields promises to elucidate underlying mechanisms and ensure effective patient management that considers future healthcare resourcing.
This Collection welcomes potential advances as research into cardiomyopathy and arrhythmias progresses. Future studies may lead to the identification of novel risk markers that predict cardiac conditions’ onset and progression. The integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning analyzing datasets to predict cardiovascular events could improve patient stratification through digital health methods.
Clinical, epidemiological, meta-, –omics and translational research are amongst the methods welcomed research on the topics below:
-Adult congenital heart disorders
-Cardiac Imaging
-Cardiomyopathy and genetic counseling
-Cardiac electrophysiology (including surgical and catheter ablation)
-Digital health wearables, remote monitoring, and AI tools
-Inherited cardiac conditions
-Implementation science and public health research
-Lifestyle factors in cardiovascular diseases
-Prescribing in comorbid/geriatric populations
-Cardiac biology explaining arrhythmogenic/cardiomyopathic mechanisms
-Sudden cardiac death/athlete screening
All manuscripts submitted to this journal, including those submitted to collections and special issues, are assessed in line with our editorial policies and the journal’s peer review process. Reviewers and editors are required to declare competing interests and can be excluded from the peer review process if a competing interest exists.
This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG: 3 (Good Health and Well-being).
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