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Editorial
Editors’ page Magdi H. Yacoub1, *, Robert Bonow2 , Iacopo Olivotto3 1 Harefield
Heart Science Center, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK 2 Division
of Cardiology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, US 3 Careggi
University Hospital, Florence,
Italy * Email:
[email protected]
This issue of the journal marks the change of the its name from Aswan Heart Centre: Science and Practice Series to Global Cardiology Science and Practice. This change is designed to more accurately describe the original mission of the journal, which is to present to our readership the latest in the three areas of science, practice and global cardiology in almost equal proportions. Until recently, global cardiology has been relatively neglected [1–6]. This is changing rapidly with the increasing realization that the current situation in untenable and thus requires concerted efforts from clinicians, scientists and other stakeholders [4–6]. We remain fully committed to the mission of the journal and invite submissions in all three areas as well as comments on how we can improve our methods of achieving the declared objectives. References [1] Yacoub S, Kotit S, Mocumbi AO and Yacoub MH. Neglected diseases in cardiology: a call for urgent action. Nature Reviews Cardiology. 2008;5:176–177. [2] Yusuf S, Reddy S, Ounpuu S and Anand S. Global burden of cardiovascular diseases: part I: general considerations, the epidemiologic transition, risk factors, and impact of urbanization. Circulation. 2001;104:22, 2746–2753. [3] Ntusi NB and Mayosi BM. Epidemiology of heart failure in sub-Saharan Africa. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2009;7:169–180. [4] Ntsekhe M and Mayosi BM. Cardiac manifestations of HIV infection: an African perspective. Nature Reviews Cardiology. 2009;6:120–127. [5] Yacoub MH. Establishing pediatric cardiovascular services in the developing world: a wake-up call. Circulation. 2007;116:1876–1878. [6] Yacoub S, Kotit S and Yacoub MH. Disease appearance and evolution against a background of climate change and reduced resources. Phil Trans R Soc A. 2011;369:1719–1729.
http://dx.doi.org/ 10.5339/gcsp.2012.1 Published: 3 July 2012 c 2012 Yacoub et al., licensee
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license CC BY-NC 3.0 which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cite this article as: Yacoub MH, Bonow R, Olivotto I. Editors’ page, Global Cardiology Science and Practice 2012:1 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/gcsp.2012.1
Editorial
Editors’ page Magdi H. Yacoub1, *, Robert Bonow2 , Iacopo Olivotto3 1 Harefield
Heart Science Center, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK 2 Division
of Cardiology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, US 3 Careggi
University Hospital, Florence,
Italy * Email:
[email protected]
This issue of the journal marks the change of the its name from Aswan Heart Centre: Science and Practice Series to Global Cardiology Science and Practice. This change is designed to more accurately describe the original mission of the journal, which is to present to our readership the latest in the three areas of science, practice and global cardiology in almost equal proportions. Until recently, global cardiology has been relatively neglected [1–6]. This is changing rapidly with the increasing realization that the current situation in untenable and thus requires concerted efforts from clinicians, scientists and other stakeholders [4–6]. We remain fully committed to the mission of the journal and invite submissions in all three areas as well as comments on how we can improve our methods of achieving the declared objectives. References [1] Yacoub S, Kotit S, Mocumbi AO and Yacoub MH. Neglected diseases in cardiology: a call for urgent action. Nature Reviews Cardiology. 2008;5:176–177. [2] Yusuf S, Reddy S, Ounpuu S and Anand S. Global burden of cardiovascular diseases: part I: general considerations, the epidemiologic transition, risk factors, and impact of urbanization. Circulation. 2001;104:22, 2746–2753. [3] Ntusi NB and Mayosi BM. Epidemiology of heart failure in sub-Saharan Africa. Expert Rev Cardiovasc Ther. 2009;7:169–180. [4] Ntsekhe M and Mayosi BM. Cardiac manifestations of HIV infection: an African perspective. Nature Reviews Cardiology. 2009;6:120–127. [5] Yacoub MH. Establishing pediatric cardiovascular services in the developing world: a wake-up call. Circulation. 2007;116:1876–1878. [6] Yacoub S, Kotit S and Yacoub MH. Disease appearance and evolution against a background of climate change and reduced resources. Phil Trans R Soc A. 2011;369:1719–1729.
http://dx.doi.org/ 10.5339/gcsp.2012.1 Published: 3 July 2012 c 2012 Yacoub et al., licensee
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license CC BY-NC 3.0 which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Cite this article as: Yacoub MH, Bonow R, Olivotto I. Editors’ page, Global Cardiology Science and Practice 2012:1 http://dx.doi.org/10.5339/gcsp.2012.1
