TY - JOUR T1 - <em>Heart Asia</em>: a new beginning JF - Heart Asia SP - 6 LP - 6 DO - 10.1136/heartasia-2015-010662 VL - 7 IS - 2 AU - Ganesan Karthikeyan Y1 - 2015/07/01 UR - http://heartasia.bmj.com/content/7/2/6.abstract N2 - Two rather obvious questions loom large in the minds of editors of fledgling journals such as Heart Asia. First, why should anyone choose to read my journal over a hundred others that are already well established? And second, why should anyone want their research published in a relatively new journal? Over the next few years, the new editorial team at Heart Asia will strive to answer these questions to the satisfaction of readers and researchers, and win their patronage. Our goal is an ambitious one: we wish to be the pre-eminent voice of practitioners of cardiology in the developing world (not just in the Asia-Pacific region). Towards this end, we are making several changes to the scope and content of the journal which readers will begin to appreciate in the months to come.The practice of cardiology in the developing world is different from that in low and middle income countries (LMICs). Our concerns and constraints as practitioners are very different. We continue to … ER -