OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Heart Journal-Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Ambulance drive-thru troponin, ready to go?	79
Letter to the editor in response to Kobo et al. 2022	61
Implementing rapid algorithms for high-sensitivity troponin—economic benefits and caveat emptor	60
Evolving perspectives in personalized cardiovascular care	58
Impact of residual angina on long-term clinical outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass graft for complex coronary artery disease	51
Association of lipoprotein(a) level and major adverse cardiovascular events in adult cancer survivors with atherosclerotic disease	35
Radial first for STEMI and cardiogenic shock: Jumping in the water with your wrists tied	35
Secundum atrial septal defect closure in adults in the UK	32
Alcoholic cardiomyopathy-attributed mortality in Europe, 2012–20	31
Long-term aspirin adherence following myocardial infarction and risk of cardiovascular events	30
Applicability of guideline-informing lipid-lowering clinical trials to contemporary real-world patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease	29
Heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines and recommendations	28
Beyond biomarkers: the relevance of supporting evidence in the diagnosis of periprocedural myocardial infarction	28
Predictive value of post-percutaneous coronary intervention fractional flow reserve: a systematic review and meta-analysis	26
Beyond the SMuRF-less paradox: disaggregation may restore clinical meaning	25
Key priorities for the implementation of the 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiomyopathies in low-resource settings	22
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy management: a systematic review of the clinical practice guidelines and recommendations	21
Beyond weight loss in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: metabolic therapy and the evolving treatment paradigm	21
Intracoronary imaging for percutaneous coronary intervention: worth the cost?	21
Fifteen-year secular changes in the care and outcomes of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Japan: a nationwide, population-based study	20
Key priorities for the implementation of the 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in low-resource settings	20
Mitral valve prolapse: incidence and prognosis related to serum levels of sex hormone-binding globulin	20
The cost-effectiveness of semaglutide in reducing cardiovascular risk among people with overweight and obesity and existing cardiovascular disease, but without diabetes	20
Mental disorders, mortality following myocardial infarction, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in England: a cohort study	19
Correction to: Trends in risk factors among young patients with acute myocardial infarction: a nationwide cohort study	19

Correction to: Optimizing patient triage on the waiting list for transcatheter aortic valve replacement: the clinical utility of the cardiac damage staging system	19
Mapping the modern heart failure epidemic: growing burden, root causes, and widening inequalities	19
Cost-effectiveness of population screening for aortic stenosis	19
Association between delayed statin initiation after high LDL-cholesterol detection and cardiovascular risk in general health screening examinees	18
Economic burden of cardiovascular disease in the United Kingdom	18
Erratum to: Economic burden of patients living with heart disease in the last years of life in Australia: a retrospective analysis using linked data	17
The rising burden of enterococcal endocarditis: insights from contemporary European data	17
Influence of multiple risk factor control level on cardiovascular outcomes in hypertensive patients	17
Letter to the editor in response to Sengupta et al. (2022)	16
Cohort profile: Evaluation of the Methods and Management of Acute Coronary Events (EMMACE) longitudinal cohort	16
Prognostic impact of anaemia in patients undergoing aortic valve replacement: a nationwide study	16
Machine learning for prediction of all-cause mortality after transcatheter aortic valve implantation	16
Cost-effectiveness of atrial fibrillation screening programmes across European nations	15
LDL-cholesterol lowering, the earlier the better: lessons from the real world	15
Standardized and hierarchically classified heart failure and complementary disease monitoring outcome measures: European Unified Registries for Heart Care Evaluation and Randomised Trials (EuroHeart)	15
The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms: counting heart failure hospitalizations	15
Rapid Assessment and Treatment In Decompensated Aortic Stenosis (ASTRID-AS study)- A pilot study	15
Estimated annual healthcare costs after acute pulmonary embolism: results from a prospective multicentre cohort study	15
Contemporary trends in incident ischaemic stroke, intracranial haemorrhage, and mortality in individuals with atrial fibrillation	14
Post-discharge pharmacotherapy in people with atrial fibrillation hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction: an Australian cohort study 2018–22	14
Association of cumulative health status with subsequent mortality in patients with acute heart failure	14
Impact of low physical activity on cardiovascular disease across regions and demographic groups: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study	14
Sex-based differences in heart failure development during STEMI hospitalization	14
Risk-standardized mortality metric to monitor hospital performance for chest pain presentations	14
Greenness exposure and mortality risk in a cardio-oncologic population	13
Advanced maternal age at first delivery as a risk factor for long-term cardiovascular disease	13
Predictive and prognostic value of different cardiac troponin assays: a nationwide register-based cohort study	13
Cancer and the risk of perioperative arterial ischaemic events	13
Periprocedural myocardial infarction after coronary artery bypass grafting: defining what matters	13
Clinical Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients with Cancer and New versus Preexistent Atrial Fibrillation	13
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction management: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines and recommendations	13
The semaglutide paradox in non-overweight diabetes: a benefit without explanation	13
Transcatheter vs. surgical mitral valve interventions in patients with prior coronary artery bypass grafting	12
Cohort profile: the ESC EURObservational Research Programme Non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infraction (NSTEMI) Registry	12
Hospital admissions in the last year of life of patients with heart failure	12
Patterns of comorbidities, clinical course, and impact of the ABC Pathway for Integrated Care in patients with atrial fibrillation: a report from the prospective Optimal Thromboprophylaxis in Elderly	12
Ultrasound evaluation of placental volume and placental vascular indices in women developing hypertensive disorders in pregnancy compared to controls: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Large-scale AI analysis reveals missed opportunities in albuminuria testing and disease-modifying therapy implementation	11
National health expenditure per capita is associated with CRT implantation practice: findings from the ESC CRT Survey II with 11 088 patients	11
First clinical experience with the Transthyretin Amyloidosis-Quality of Life questionnaire (ATTR-QoL): associations with clinical characteristics and established patient-reported outcomes	11
Current prevalence and remaining challenges of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors in patients with heart failure	11
A decade of follow-up: atrial fibrillation, pulmonary pressure, and the progression of tricuspid regurgitation	11
Multi-domain biomarkers for holistic care of cancer survivors	11
Association between Early Oral β-Blocker Therapy and Risk for In-Hospital Major Bleeding after Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Coronary Syndrome: Findings from CCC-ACS Project	11
Cost-effectiveness of the ABCStroke pathway in ischaemic stroke care: a UK pilot analysis	10
Validating National Registry Data for Randomised Trials: Comparison of registry-derived cardiovascular events with and without adjudication in the BETAMI-DANBLOCK trial	10
Addressing the impact of social determinants of health in congenital heart disease	10
Integrating cardiac biomarkers into the AHA PREVENT equations: impact on atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease risk stratification	10
RNA-targeted therapeutics in arterial hypertension	10
Quality of life and societal costs in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy	10

Suspected Non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome meeting rapid rule-out criteria: resource utilization, diagnostic yield, and clinical outcomes of hospital admission	10
Bacteraemia and infective endocarditis following left-sided heart valve surgery	10
Utility of patient-reported perception of symptom change in patients with acute decompensated heart failure in predicting post-discharge clinical outcomes: insights from KCHF registry	10
Treating the patient, not just the valve: can we predict which transcatheter aortic valve implantation patients truly benefit?	10
Clinical outcomes following invasive cardiovascular interventions in frail populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Predicted clinical and economic burden associated with reduction in access to acute coronary interventional care during the COVID-19 lockdown in two European countries	10
Trends and projections of heart failure among adolescents and young adults: an in-depth analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021	10
POAF after CABG: early risk, landmark bias, and the case for selective anticoagulation	10
Association of baseline and changes in health-related quality of life with mortality following myocardial infarction: multicentre longitudinal linked cohort study	9
Corrigendum to: Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors in patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials	9
The less lonely and the more satisfied you are, the merrier is … the heart!	9
Global, regional, and national burden of atrial fibrillation/flutter related to metabolic risks over three decades: estimates from the global burden of disease study 2019	9
Elementary school performance of children with congenital heart disease: a Danish nationwide cohort study	9
Has the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic reversed the trends in CV mortality between 1999 and 2019 in the United States?	9
Editorial: impact of catheter-directed thrombolysis on the socioeconomic burden of pulmonary embolism in Germany a cost-effectiveness analysis: who dares wins	8
Evaluation of a combined symptom-based questionnaire and capillary natriuretic peptides testing for early detection of heart failure: a Heart Failure Awareness Days nationwide screening study (DEPIC F	8
Severe LVOT obstruction in HCM: effects on exercise capacity and outcomes from cardiopulmonary exercise testing combined with stress echocardiography	8
Current epidemiology and management of acute heart failure: the multicenter prospective OFICA2 cohort	8
Atrial fibrillation ablation in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: are we there yet?	8
Method validation of cardiopulmonary exercise testing: intra- and inter-device comparisons across four metabolic carts	8
Incidence, predictors, and prognostic impact of rehospitalization after transcatheter aortic valve implantation	8
Risk charts are not neutral: reconsidering threshold effects in SCORE2-based treatment eligibility	8
Optimizing anticoagulant therapy: is pharmacist-led intervention the best	8
Trends and risk factors analysis of aortic aneurysm mortality in China over thirty years: based on the global burden of disease 2019 data	8
Implantable cardioverter defibrillators in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction after myocardial infarction: the need for contemporary evidence	8
Non-invasive physiological assessment of intermediate coronary stenoses from plain angiography through artificial intelligence: the STARFLOW system	8
Ischaemic cerebrovascular events post-atrial fibrillation catheter ablation: a descriptive report on the ITHACA database	8
Predictive factors of surgical repair technique in infants with coarctation of the aorta	8
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the incidence and prevalence of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome	8
Quality of care and long-term survival after ST-elevation myocardial infarction in adults with cancer	7
Heart failure in an ageing world: closing the evidence-equity gap	7
Measuring what matters in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest care	7
Diagnostic accuracy, clinical characteristics, and prognostic differences of patients with acute myocarditis according to inclusion criteria	7
Tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair for tricuspid valve regurgitation: a sex-based real-world analysis from the TRI-SPA registry	7
Trends in atrial fibrillation-related mortality in Europe, 2008–2019	7
Current management of transition and multidisciplinary care of patients with inherited and rare cardiomyopathies in Europe: results of the European Reference Network for rare and low prevalence comple	7
Temporal trends in loss of expected lifetime associated with cardiovascular complications following newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation: a Danish nationwide cohort study from 2000 to 2022	7
Reperfusion strategies on the clinical outcomes of ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients over 80 years old in China	7
Mind the missed-fibrinolysis gap	7
Cohort profile: the prospective cohort study on the incidence of metabolic diseases and risk factors in Shunde, China (Speed-Shunde cohort)	7
Disparities in ST-elevation myocardial infarction diagnosis and management among patients with mental health conditions	7
Seasonal influenza vaccine uptake among patients with cardiovascular disease in Denmark, 2017–2019	7
Comprehensive risk factor management for hypertensive patients	7
Renin–angiotensin system inhibition and in-hospital mortality in acute coronary syndrome patients with advanced renal dysfunction: findings from CCC-ACS project and a nationwide electronic health reco	7
Which frailty tool best predicts morbidity and mortality in ambulatory patients with heart failure? A prospective study	6
Real-world evidence and quality improvement in heart failure and cardiomyopathies	6
Remnant cholesterol and risk of premature mortality: an analysis from a nationwide prospective cohort study	6
Regional disparities in heart transplant mortality in the USA	6
The patient journey in chronic coronary syndromes with/without obstructive coronary arteries	6
Unravelling the gaps in diagnosis and management of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy	6
The burden of atrial fibrillation related to metabolic risks: different countries and territories, yet the same challenges	6
Comment on ‘association of menopausal hormone therapy with incident cardiovascular disease in women veterans’	6
Key priorities for the implementation of the 2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes in low-resource settings	6
First systematic screening of cardiac amyloidosis in the elderly: findings and cost-effectiveness profile	6
Adapting predictive risk models and preventive strategies across different socio-economic regions to reduce global cardiovascular burden	6
Population-based screening for conditions associated with juvenile sudden cardiac death: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Assessing the health impact of low seafood omega-3 intake on ischaemic heart disease: trends, demographic disparities, and forecasts	6
Inequality across the cardiac rehabilitation trajectory in Denmark: investigating key sociodemographic and health-related drivers	6
One year healthcare consumption prior to sudden cardiac death	6
Association of atrial fibrillation with survival in patients with low-flow low-gradient aortic stenosis with preserved ejection fraction undergoing TAVI	6
Rigour of development of European Society of Cardiology, American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association guidelines over a 12-year period (2013–2024): a systematic review of guidelines	6
Cost-effectiveness of catheter-based radiofrequency renal denervation for the treatment of uncontrolled hypertension: an analysis for the UK based on recent clinical evidence	6
Existing health disparities in congenital heart disease: the path forward to achieving health equity—A scientific statement of the European Association of Preventive Cardiology of the ESC	6
Relationship between hospital mortality and readmission rates after transcatheter aortic valve replacement	6