ABC | Volume 114, Nº3, March 2020

Review Article The Top 10 Original Articles Published in the Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia and in the Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia in 2019 Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveir a , 1 ,2 Ricardo Fontes-Carvalho, 3,4 Lino Gonçalves, 5,6 Nuno Cardim, 7,8 Carlos Eduardo Rochitte 9,10 Faculdade de Medicina – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 1 Rio de Janeiro, RJ – Brazil Instituto do Coração Edson Saad – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2 Rio de Janeiro, RJ – Brazil Departamento de Cardiologia – Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia, 3 Vila Nova de Gaia – Portugal Departamento de Cirurgia e Fisiologia – Faculdade de Medicina – Universidade do Porto, 4 Porto – Portugal Departamento de Cardiologia – Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, 5 Coimbra – Portugal Faculdade de Medicina – Universidade de Coimbra, 6 Coimbra – Portugal Departamento de Cardiologia do Hospital da Luz, 7 Lisboa - Portugal Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 8 Lisboa - Portugal Instituto do Coração (InCor) – Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, 9 São Paulo, SP – Brazil Hospital do Coração (HCOR), 10 São Paulo, SP – Brazil Introduction For centuries, Portugal and Brazil have shared a tradition of cooperation, which applies to medicine. In cardiology, for example, their national scientific societies – the Brazilian Society of Cardiology and the Portuguese Society of Cardiology – have a long history of collaboration, which extends to their journals. The Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia ( Arq Bras Cardiol ), the official scientific publication of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology, with an impact factor of 1.679 in 2018 (JCR), is the most influential cardiology journal in Brazil and Latin America. This can be exemplified by the increasing number of submissions to the Arq Bras Cardiol (650 in 2017, 771 in 2018, and 734 in 2019), and by its h5 index of 31 and h5 median of 39, with acceptance rate lower than 20%. The Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia ( Rev Port Cardiol ) is the official journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology, an institutional member of the European Society of Cardiology. It has been continuously published since 1982, has global impact, being indexed in PubMed, Elsevier, ScienceDirect and SCOPUS, with an impact factor of 0.79 in 2018. In that year, for the first time, both journals got together to issue a review of the most relevant original papers published in both journals in 2018. 1 Because of the great success of that initiative, the editorial bodies of those two journals decided to cooperate again to select their best 2019 publications. The articles of the Arq Bras Cardiol listed here were those selected for the Brazilian Society of Cardiology Publication Award. It is worth noting that Nuno Cardim, author of the best article published in the Rev Port Cardiol in 2019, attended the award ceremony of the 74 th Brazilian Congress of Cardiology, in the city of Porto Alegre, in 2019. We aim to strengthen the cultural ties of the major cardiology journals published in Portuguese, which represent the best publications directed to a growing population of around 250 million people worldwide. Given the overall high quality of the articles published, this selection was a hard, possibly imperfect task, which allowed us to highlight several relevant papers in cardiology. Tables 1 and 2 list the top ten articles published in each journal in 2019. Cardiovascular prevention Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of mortality worldwide. Although several strategies to treat CVD are currently available, the control of cardiovascular risk (CVR) factors remains below the desired degree. The DISGEN- LIPID 2 study, an observational study conducted in 24 centers in Portugal, has aimed at assessing the degree of control of dyslipidemia, one of the major CVR factors for the development of coronary artery disease (CAD). That study has shown that, although most patients were at high or very high CVR, more than 50% of those on lipid-lowering therapy did not achieve the recommended target levels for LDL-C, a large proportion being on low-intensity statins or low-dose therapy. Another study, assessing data from the DISGEN-LIPID study, has shown a significant disparity between genders, with lipid profile values significantly higher in women than in men. 3 That relevant study evidences the need for public health policies that can overcome both the current obstacles to implementing the guidelines in clinical practice and the problems of low statin dose, therapeutic inertia and lack of patient’s adherence to treatment. In 2019, the Rev Port Cardiol published the PRECISE study 4 to help understand the control of CVR factors in the Portuguese population. That epidemiological, cross-sectional study has assessed the prevalence of several CVR factors in 2848 hypertensive patients followed up in primary health care centers. The study has shown that only 56% of those patients had good blood pressure control and more than 80% Keywords Cardiovascular Diseases; Periodicals as Topic; Portals for Scientific Journals; Journal Impact Factor; Periodical; System for Evaluation of Publications; Scientific and Technical Publications; Periodical; System for Evaluation of Publications. Mailing Address: Gláucia Maria Moraes de Oliveira • Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – R. Prof. Rodolpho P. Rocco, 255 – 8°. Andar – Sala 6, UFRJ. Postal Code 21941-913, Cidade Universitária, RJ – Brazil E-mail: glauciam@cardiol.br , glauciamoraesoliveira@gmail.com Manuscript received March 03, 2020, revised manuscript March 09, 2020, accepted March 09, 2020 DOI: https://doi.org/10.36660/abc.20200176 564