AHA Journals -- Subject Codes

When preparing your manuscript for submission, please select from the following list those categories that most closely describe the subject area of your paper. The intention of this list is to broaden the researchers' reach but not to include peripheral or nonsubstantive subject areas. If accepted for publication, your paper will be searchable across the Highwire Press online journals Article Collections database. The list is derived primarily from the medical subjects headings (MeSH) of the National Library of Medicine and has been approved by the Scientific Publishing Committee of the American Heart Association.

Journal Subject Heads (or Subject Codes) for Article Collections Feature on Journals Web Site

Cardiology

Etiology

[3] Acute coronary syndromes

[4] Acute myocardial infarction

[5] Arrhythmias, clinical electrophysiology, drugs

[6] Cardiac development

[7] Chronic ischemic heart disease

[109] Clinical genetics

[8] Epidemiology

Heart failure

[10] Cardio-renal physiology/ pathophysiology

[110] Congestive

[11] Other heart failure

Hypertension

[13] Cerebrovascular disease/stroke

[193] Clinical studies

[14] Other hypertension

[15] Hypertrophy

[111] Infectious endocarditis

[112] Lipids

[16] Myocardial cardiomyopathy disease

[113] Obesity

[114] Pericardial disease

[17] Peripheral vascular disease

[18] Pulmonary circulation and disease

[115] Remodeling

[116] Restenosis

[19] Valvular heart disease

[20] Other etiology

Treatment

[22] Ablation/ICD/surgery

[117] Behavioral/psychosocial - treatment

[25] CPR and emergency cardiac care

[118] Cardiovascular Pharmacology

[23] Catheter-based coronary and valvular interventions: other

[24] Catheter-based coronary interventions: stents

[119] Compliance/Adherence

[26] Exercise/exercise testing/rehabilitation

[120] Pacemaker

[121] Primary prevention

[123] Restenosis

[122] Secondary prevention

[27] Other Treatment

Diagnostic Testing

[30] CT and MRI

[124] Cardiovascular imaging agents/Techniques

[29] Coronary imaging: angiography/ultrasound/Doppler/CC

[31] Echocardiography

[171] Electrocardiology

[106] Electrophysiology

[125] Exercise testing

[32] Nuclear cardiology and PET

[33] Other diagnostic testing

Cardiovascular (CV) Surgery

[126] Behavioral/psychosocial - CV surgery

[37] CV surgery: transplantation, ventricular assistance, cardiomyopathy

[35] CV surgery: aortic and vascular disease

[36] CV surgery: coronary artery disease

[38] CV surgery: valvular disease

[39] CV surgery: other

[40] Cardiovascular Nursing

[41] Pediatric and congenital heart disease, including cardiovascular surgery

Stroke

[43] Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage

[44] Acute Cerebral Infarction

[45] Acute Stroke Syndromes

[46] Behavioral Changes and Stroke

[127] Behavioral/psychosocial - stroke

[47] Brain Circulation and Metabolism

[49] Carotid Stenosis

[48] Carotid and Vertebral A. Dissection

[50] Cerebral Aneurysm, AVM, & Subarachnoid hemorrhage

[51] Cerebral Lacunes

[52] Cerebral Venous Thrombosis

[53] Embolic stroke

[54] Emergency treatment of Stroke

[55] Genetics of Stroke

Imaging of the brain and arteries

[57] Angiography

[58] Computerized tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging

[59] Doppler ultrasound, Transcranial Doppler etc.

[60] PET and SPECT

[61] Other imaging

[62] Intracerebral Hemorrhage

[63] Pathology of Stroke

[64] Primary and Secondary Stroke Prevention

[65] Rehabilitation, Stroke

[66] Risk Factors for Stroke

[67] Spinal Cord Vascular Disease

[68] Stroke in Children and the Young

Stroke Treatment - Medical

[70] Anticoagulants

[71] Antiplatelets

[72] Neuroprotectors

[73] Thrombolysis

[74] Other Stroke Treatment - Medical

Stroke Treatment - Surgical

[76] Carotid endarterectomy

[77] By-pass procedures

[78] Angioplasty and Stenting

[79] Aneurysm, AVM, hematoma

[80] Other Stroke Treatment - Surgical

[81] Transient Ischemic Attacks

[82] Vasculitis Brain Arteries

[83] Other Stroke

Basic Science Research

[128] ACE/Angiotension receptors

[129] Angiogenesis

[130] Animal models of human disease

[131] Apoptosis

[132] Arrythmias-basic studies

Atherosclerosis

[134] Pathophysiology

[135] Risk Factors

[144] Other arteriosclerosis

[85] Autonomic, reflex, and neurohumoral control of circulation

[136] Calcium cycling/excitation-contraction coupling

[137] Cell biology/structural biology

[138] Cell signalling/signal transduction

[87] Coronary circulation

[139] Developmental biology

[140] Energy metabolism

[141] Functional genomics

[142] Gene expression

[143] Gene regulation

[88] Gene therapy

[145] Genetically altered mice

[89] Genetics of cardiovascular disease

[146] Genomics

[147] Growth factors/cytokines

[148] Heart failure - basic studies

[149] Hypertension - basic studies

[150] Imaging

[153] Information technology

[152] Ion channels/membrane transport

[151] Ischemic biology - basic studies

[90] Lipid and lipoprotein metabolism

Myocardial biology

[104] Structure

[105] Contractile function

[107] Biochemistry and metabolism

[108] Other myocardial biology

[154] Myogenesis

[101] Nutrition

[91] Oxidant stress

[155] Physiological and pathological control of gene expression

[156] Pulmonary biology and circulation

[157] Quantitative modeling

[93] Receptor pharmacology

[163] Resource utilization

Thrombosis

[172] Arterial thrombosis

[173] Deep vein thrombosis

[92] Platelets

[174] Coagulation

[86] Coagulation and fibrinolysis

[160] Fibrinolysis

[175] Fibrinogen/fibrin

[176] Thrombin

Platelet adhesion

[177] Secretion

[178] Aggregation

[179] Morphology

[180] Metabolism

[181] Signal transduction

[182] Coagulation inhibitors

Anticoagulants

[183] Heparin

[184] Coumarins

[185] Other anticoagulants

[159] Anticoagulant mechanisms

[186] Platelet function inhibitors

[187] Thrombophilia

[188] Thrombosis risk factors

[161] Transplantation

Vascular biology

[95] Endothelium/vascular type/nitric oxide

[96] Mechanism of atherosclerosis/growth factors

[162] Smooth muscle proliferation and differentiation

[97] Other Vascular biology

[98] Other Research

Ethics and Policy

[100] Health policy and outcome research

[102] Other Ethics and Policy

Diabetes

[189] Type 1 diabetes

[190] Type 2 diabetes

[191] Other diabetes

[192] Glucose intolerance