About CurrentCardio
What’s included
CurrentCardio covers newly published cardiovascular research in humans, from a fixed set of leading journals. These are the rules that decide what becomes a Brief.
Coverage
Journals
CurrentCardio monitors 35 cardiovascular and general medical journals. The list is reviewed each year.
The archive holds research published Apr 2023 – Dec 2026 and Jan–Mar 2020. The archive reaches back to April 2023 today and grows backwards, one quarter at a time, towards October 2016.
Study types
What becomes a Brief
Studies in humans that have an abstract. A Brief is made even when the abstract leaves details out; those are marked as not reported.
Included
- Randomised controlled trials
- Observational studies
- Meta-analyses
- Diagnostic and prognostic studies
- Secondary analyses of trials
- Mechanistic or translational studies with a cardiovascular question
- Society statementsScientific statements, consensus documents and position papers: their own type, summarised without a results section
Not included
- Editorials
- Letters
- Case reports
Scope
Cardiovascular relevance
Every study in a cardiovascular journal counts as cardiovascular. Elsewhere the line is drawn as follows.
- General medical journals
- Included when the population is defined by a cardiovascular condition, or the primary outcome is cardiovascular. Not when a cardiovascular outcome is only one of several primary outcomes in another population.
- Stroke
- Included for cardiac questions — atrial fibrillation, patent foramen ovale, cardioembolic stroke — and cardiovascular prevention after stroke. Acute stroke treatment, such as thrombectomy and thrombolysis, belongs to neurology and is not included.
- Venous disease
- Pulmonary embolism and venous thromboembolism are included, under their own topic. Chronic venous disease is included from cardiovascular journals, not from general journals.
Organisation
Topics and updates
Every Brief is placed in one of 12 topics, and the journals are monitored continuously for new research.