Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 24 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 17.5 days and median APT was 43 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:
| Accornero, Federica | Kahwash, Rami |
| Amack, Jeffrey | Kelly, Robert G. |
| Anderson, Robert | Koppe, Janna G. |
| Aterini, Stefano | Kostner, Karam |
| Baczkó, István | Langdon, Simon P. |
| Barbone, Alessandro | Levin, Michael |
| Bartulos, Oscar | Lombardi, Carolina |
| Belo, José António | Lymperopoulos, Anastasios |
| Billaud, Marie | Männer, Jörg |
| Bond, Mark | Matta, Jaime |
| Boselli, Francesco | Molina, Cristina E. |
| Broderick, Tom L. | Morrow, Bernice E. |
| Buffinton, Christine | Munshi, Nikhil V. |
| Busjahn, Andreas | Münsterberg, Andrea |
| Campione, Marina | Naruszewicz, Marek |
| Carter, Wayne | Norton, Nadine |
| Ceolotto, Giulio | Nwanodi, Oroma |
| Christoffels, Vincent M | Ocorr, Karen |
| Coats, Andrew | Ostrom, Rennolds |
| Cooper, Robin | Pasquie, Jean-Luc |
| Davies, Kay | Pérez-Calvo, Juan I. |
| De Vecchis, Renato | Perez-Pomares, Jose M. |
| Demyanets, Svitlana | Piplani, Honit |
| Dessauer, Carmen | Poelmann, Robert |
| Dimova, Elitsa | Prickaerts, Jos |
| Drysdale, Thomas | Ravichandran, Ashwin |
| Efird, Jimmy | Roberts, Angharad M |
| Ferdinandy, Péter | Rocha, Sonia |
| Franco, Diego | Roubille, François |
| Gold, Matt | Shishido, Tetsuro |
| Grimes, Daniel T. | Solà Alberich, Rosa |
| Guimarães, Guilherme Veiga | Stieber, Juliane |
| Haque, Inamul | Strande, Jennifer |
| Hershberger, Ray | Strohbach, Anne |
| Hoff, Maurice | Sucosky, Philippe |
| Ishikawa, Kiyotake | Sun, Yunfu |
| Ivanov, Plamen | Tulis, David A. |
| Jay, Patrick Y. | Tyan, Yu-Chang |
| Jaźwińska, Anna | Van Lieshout, Johannes J. |
| Jeremy, Richmond | Wachten, Dagmar |
| Johnson, Erik | Wessells, Robert |
| Joseph, Jacob | Xin, Mei |
| Jovanović, Aleksandar | Yaniv, Yael |