Editors’ page for Sept 2021 issue

Dear Preventive Cardiology Colleagues and Friends:

We hope all of you, our dedicated prevention colleagues, have had a wonderful summer and able to take some vacation time to rest, recharge, and enjoy the company of your friends and family. Work-life harmony is very important for mental well-being. One cannot continue to pour from an empty cup, so it is important to take time to re-fill your cups.

Over the summer, we received some good news for the journal. We are pleased to inform you that the American Journal of Preventive Cardiology (AJPC) has been accepted for indexing in PubMed Central, which is a testament to the high caliber of articles that have been submitted to our new journal over the past year. This news means, in upcoming months, all previously published articles going back to the beginning of the journal in 2020 and all newly published articles will be uploaded and searchable within PubMed. We understand that PubMed indexing is very important to our authors (and to us), and this is an important milestone for the journal.

We especially wanted to thank our highly valued associate editors and editorial board members for all their hard work with handling and reviewing manuscripts to ensure the high quality of material that has been published in the journal, which was a major factor in the PubMed Central acceptance. Thank you to all of our authors who have submitted their great work to our journal and we appreciate your on-going support. Please continue to send to us your best work within the prevention scope. Finally, we are forever grateful to the efforts of Liz Rajesh and Koos Admiral from Elsevier, our American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC) leadership and staff, and our founding editor Dr. Sergio Fazio for all their efforts in the development and promotion of the journal.

Additionally, this summer, we also held our 2021 ASPC Virtual Summit on CVD prevention on July 23-25 and hoped that you all had a chance to attend. Dr. Michos would like to extend a special, huge congratulation to her co-Editor in Chief Dr. Nathan Wong for receiving the 2021 ASPC Joseph Stokes, III, MD Award. Dr. Wong gave the Stokes’ lectureship at the ASPC Virtual Congress with an outstanding talk on the “Evolution of Preventive Cardiology: Framingham and Beyond”.

We would like to thank the hard work of our ASPC staff and our faculty for putting together another outstanding virtual meeting in the background of the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. Once again, the caliber of the talks was very high and featured many luminaries in the prevention field. We very much hope to see you all in person for our 2022 annual ASPC Scientific Sessions in Louisville, KY (Jul 29-31, 2022). Before then, we hope many of you will also attend the ASPC 2021 Preventive Cardiology Experts Course live in-person at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV on October 1-2.

The September 2021 issue is our 7^th volume for the journal and again is a packed issue. There are too many great articles in this issue to list them all here, but they range in topics from South Asian Health, new strategies to optimize risk prediction for high risk and special populations, adverse childhood experience, mental health, social determinants of health, shared decision making, periodontal disease, mental health, intensive endurance exercise, utility of lipid parameters such as apo B and TG/HDL-C ratio, and many more. We hope you get a chance to read them and take away messages from them that can help your practice of preventive cardiology. As always, our articles are freely available to download without any firewall barriers, made possible by our Open Access publishing strategy.

As we finish out our summer, we will end with the note that our country has made great progress with vaccinations but we are still not out of the woods yet with the Delta variant of SARS-COV-2 taking hold of the US. Thurs, we appreciate your continued help in advocacy for encouraging our patients and communities to receive their vaccinations if they have not done so already. Vaccination still remains the best protection against Delta. Prevention strategies for infectious diseases are always the best intervention - just like prevention strategies are for cardiovascular diseases. We remain optimistic for the fall and hope to see many of you in person at conferences later this year. We hope you all will remain healthy and safe.