Call for papers - Cardiovascular aging

Guest Editors

Sherin Saheera, PhD, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA
Huiliang Zhang, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA

Submission Status: Open | Submission Deadline: 20 May 2025

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders is calling for submissions to our Collection on Cardiovascular aging. Aging leads to a progressive decline in cardiovascular structure and function. Understanding the mechanisms driving cardiovascular aging is crucial for developing effective preventive strategies and interventions to promote healthy aging and reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in older adults. BMC Cardiovascular Disorders is looking for submissions focusing on age-related changes in cardiac structure and function, vascular aging and arterial stiffness, aging and atherosclerosis, and age-related cardiovascular diseases. Related topics are also welcome and encouraged.

New Content Item This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing.

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Meet the Guest Editors

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Sherin Saheera, PhD, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA

Dr Sherin Saheera completed her PhD from India in 2017 and went to the USA to pursue her postdoctoral studies. After a year of training at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, she has been working as Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School since January 2019. She has over 18 publications in peer reviewed high impact journals and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member and reviewer for reputed journals. She presented papers in several national and international conferences.

Huiliang Zhang, PhD, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, USA

Dr Huiliang Zhang is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Dr Zhang’s research focuses on cardiac dysfunction in the aging heart with an emphasis on the pathogenic role of elevated proton leak from mitochondria. He explores the strategies of restoring mitochondrial function and stem cell therapies to reverse cardiac dysfunction in preclinical models of aging. Dr Zhang is the principal investigator of grants from NIH, the American Heart Association (AHA), and the American Federation of Aging Research. Dr Zhang served as a reviewer multiple times for the NIA and AHA Career Development Award. He has about 40 original publications and has won several national trainee and junior faculty awards.

About the Collection

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders is calling for submissions to our Collection on Cardiovascular aging. Cardiovascular aging represents a complex interplay of physiological, cellular, and molecular changes that significantly impact the structure and function of the heart and vasculature. As individuals age, they become increasingly susceptible to various clinical complications affecting the cardiovascular system. Such complications include, angina, arrithymias, anemia, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, aortic stenosis, congestive heart failure, hypertension/orthostatic hypotension, transient ischemic attacks, stroke, blood clots, deep vein thrombosis, peripheral vascular disease, varicose veins and aneurysms.

With aging populations experiencing a growing burden of cardiovascular disease, there is an urgent need to elucidate the fundamental processes driving cardiovascular aging, identify novel therapeutic targets, and develop innovative strategies to promote healthy aging and mitigate age-related cardiovascular risk factors.

In support of SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing, this Collection seeks contributions that address a spectrum of topics, including but not limited to:
• Age-related changes in cardiac structure and function
• Vascular aging and arterial stiffness
• Aging and atherosclerosis
• Age-related cardiovascular diseases
• Biomarkers of cardiovascular aging
• Cellular senescence in age-related cardiovascular disease
• Oxidative stress, inflammation and the immune system in age-related cardiovascular dysfunction
• Epigenetic mechanisms underlying age-related cardiovascular dysfunction
• Interventions to promote healthy aging

There are currently no articles in this collection.

Submission Guidelines

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This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Cardiovascular aging" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.