| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Cardiovascular disease risk profiles | American Heart Journal | 1991 | 1,900 |
| 2 | Maximal oxygen intake and nomographic assessment of functional aerobic impairment in cardiovascular disease | American Heart Journal | 1973 | 1,813 |
| 3 | Characteristics and outcomes of patients hospitalized for heart failure in the United States: Rationale, design, and preliminary observations from the first 100,000 cases in the Acute Decompensated Heart Failure National Registry (ADHERE) | American Heart Journal | 2005 | 1,811 |
| 4 | Hydraulic formula for calculation of the area of the stenotic mitral valve, other cardiac valves, and central circulatory shunts. I | American Heart Journal | 1951 | 1,767 |
| 5 | The ventricular complex in left ventricular hypertrophy as obtained by unipolar precordial and limb leads | American Heart Journal | 1949 | 1,735 |
| 6 | Apical ballooning syndrome (Tako-Tsubo or stress cardiomyopathy): A mimic of acute myocardial infarction | American Heart Journal | 2008 | 1,561 |
| 7 | Patterns of coronary heart disease morbidity and mortality in the sexes: A 26-year follow-up of the Framingham population | American Heart Journal | 1986 | 1,531 |
| 8 | Congenital deaf-mutism, functional heart disease with prolongation of the Q-T interval, and sudden death | American Heart Journal | 1957 | 1,492 |
| 9 | The use of biplane angiocardiography for the measurement of left ventricular volume in man | American Heart Journal | 1960 | 1,320 |
| 10 | A computer model of atrial fibrillation | American Heart Journal | 1964 | 1,245 |
| 11 | Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease | American Heart Journal | 1999 | 1,229 |
| 12 | Heart rate and cardiovascular mortality: The Framingham study | American Heart Journal | 1987 | 1,170 |
| 13 | The hibernating myocardium | American Heart Journal | 1989 | 1,170 |
| 14 | The use of single plane angiocardiograms for the calculation of left ventricular volume in man | American Heart Journal | 1968 | 1,108 |
| 15 | Takayasu's arteritis. Clinical study of 107 cases | American Heart Journal | 1977 | 948 |
| 16 | Schizophrenia and increased risks of cardiovascular disease | American Heart Journal | 2005 | 935 |
| 17 | Radial versus femoral access for coronary angiography or intervention and the impact on major bleeding and ischemic events: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials | American Heart Journal | 2009 | 920 |
| 18 | The long Q-T syndrome | American Heart Journal | 1975 | 911 |
| 19 | Ambulatory sudden cardiac death: Mechanisms of production of fatal arrhythmia on the basis of data from 157 cases | American Heart Journal | 1989 | 903 |
| 20 | Clinical classification schemes for predicting hemorrhage: Results from the National Registry of Atrial Fibrillation (NRAF) | American Heart Journal | 2006 | 890 |
| 21 | Assessment of right ventricular function using two-dimensional echocardiography | American Heart Journal | 1984 | 886 |
| 22 | Early phase acute myocardial infarct size quantification: Validation of the triphenyl tetrazolium chloride tissue enzyme staining technique | American Heart Journal | 1981 | 864 |
| 23 | Assessment of patient outcome with the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure questionnaire: Reliability and validity during a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of pimobendan | American Heart Journal | 1992 | 852 |
| 24 | Human epicardial adipose tissue: A review | American Heart Journal | 2007 | 825 |
| 25 | Bundle-branch block with short P-R interval in healthy young people prone to paroxysmal tachycardia | American Heart Journal | 1930 | 820 |
| 26 | A point-score system for the ECG diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy | American Heart Journal | 1968 | 815 |
| 27 | Tako-tsubo-like left ventricular dysfunction with ST-segment elevation: A novel cardiac syndrome mimicking acute myocardial infarction | American Heart Journal | 2002 | 797 |
| 28 | Atrial fibrillation as a self-sustaining arrhythmia independent of focal discharge | American Heart Journal | 1959 | 775 |
| 29 | Cardiovascular sequelae of preeclampsia/eclampsia: A systematic review and meta-analyses | American Heart Journal | 2008 | 767 |
| 30 | Epidemiology of heart failure | American Heart Journal | 1991 | 760 |
| 31 | Magnesium: Nature's physiologic calcium blocker | American Heart Journal | 1984 | 746 |
| 32 | The speed of healing of myocardial infarction | American Heart Journal | 1939 | 742 |
| 33 | Interleukin-1β inhibition and the prevention of recurrent cardiovascular events: Rationale and Design of the Canakinumab Anti-inflammatory Thrombosis Outcomes Study (CANTOS) | American Heart Journal | 2011 | 728 |
| 34 | Body mass index and mortality in heart failure: A meta-analysis | American Heart Journal | 2008 | 724 |
| 35 | Prevalence of congenital heart disease | American Heart Journal | 2004 | 723 |
| 36 | Plasma brain natriuretic peptide as a biochemical marker of high left ventricular end-diastolic pressure in patients with symptomatic left ventricular dysfunction | American Heart Journal | 1998 | 690 |
| 37 | Assessment of peripheral vascular endothelial function with finger arterial pulse wave amplitude | American Heart Journal | 2003 | 690 |
| 38 | Interstudy reproducibility of right ventricular volumes, function, and mass with cardiovascular magnetic resonance | American Heart Journal | 2004 | 686 |
| 39 | Left bundle-branch block is associated with increased 1-year sudden and total mortality rate in 5517 outpatients with congestive heart failure: A report from the Italian network on congestive heart failure | American Heart Journal | 2002 | 681 |
| 40 | Left ventricular volume and mass from single-plane cineangiocardiogram. A comparison of anteroposterior and right anterior oblique methods | American Heart Journal | 1970 | 672 |
| 41 | Cardiac papillary fibroelastoma: a comprehensive analysis of 725 cases | American Heart Journal | 2003 | 669 |
| 42 | The triglyceride issue: A view from Framingham | American Heart Journal | 1986 | 658 |
| 43 | A randomized controlled trial of epoprostenol therapy for severe congestive heart failure: The Flolan International Randomized Survival Trial (FIRST) | American Heart Journal | 1997 | 648 |
| 44 | Prognostic implications of left ventricular hypertrophy | American Heart Journal | 2001 | 613 |
| 45 | Intracoronary thrombolysis in evolving myocardial infarction | American Heart Journal | 1981 | 606 |
| 46 | Idiopathic long QT syndrome: Progress and questions | American Heart Journal | 1985 | 605 |
| 47 | Lipids, diabetes, and coronary heart disease: Insights from the Framingham Study | American Heart Journal | 1985 | 597 |
| 48 | Simple electrocardiographic markers for the prediction of paroxysmal idiopathic atrial fibrillation | American Heart Journal | 1998 | 596 |
| 49 | Heart rate variability: A measure of cardiac autonomic tone | American Heart Journal | 1994 | 584 |
| 50 | Influence of heart rate on mortality among persons with hypertension: The Framingham Study | American Heart Journal | 1993 | 570 |
