European Journal of Preventive Cardiology and secondary cardiovascular prevention and sport cardiology. It publishes 18 issues yearly and abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the "Journal Citation Reports", its 2016 impact factor is 3.6, ranking it 43th out of 125 journals in the category "Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems". Areas of interests are Cardiovascular primary and secondary preventions, (including arterial hypertension, dyslipidaemia, diabetes, obesity, smoking cessation, healthy life style promotion), epidemiology, cardiac rehabilitation, exercise training and physiology, sport cardiology, population science intervention. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology The European Journal of Preventive Cardiology is a peer-reviewed medical journal that
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