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Ejection Fraction

Ejection fraction (EF) is a measurement of how effectively the heart pumps blood, expressed as the percentage of blood that is ejected from a ventricle, usually the left ventricle, with each contraction. Because the left ventricle delivers oxygen-rich blood to the body, left ventricular ejection fraction is a key in…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 22× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2329-9487 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Ejection fraction (EF) is a measurement of how effectively the heart pumps blood, expressed as the percentage of blood that is ejected from a ventricle, usually the left ventricle, with each contraction. Because the left ventricle delivers oxygen-rich blood to the body, left ventricular ejection fraction is a key indicator of cardiac function and is central to diagnosing and classifying conditions such as heart failure, including the distinction between heart failure with reduced and with preserved ejection fraction. It is commonly assessed using echocardiography and other cardiac imaging methods, and it guides treatment decisions and prognosis in patients with hypertension, coronary artery disease, and other cardiovascular disorders. Research in the Journal of Hypertension and Cardiology and related OpenAccessPub journals addresses the assessment of cardiac function relevant to ejection fraction, including a speckle-strain imaging study of cardiac mechanics in patients with systemic hypertension who have normal ejection fraction, an assessment of cardiac function and sleep-disordered breathing using acoustic cardiography, and work on cardiorenal signaling pathways in heart failure. These studies reflect the clinical focus on evaluating how the heart pumps in the context of hypertension and heart failure. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to ejection fraction and the assessment of cardiac function.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2020

Heart Failure in Family Medicine

Franjić SinišaCorresponding author
Exact topic International Journal of Global Health Cited by 3 doi:10.14302/issn.2693-1176.ijgh-20-3411

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 22 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Hypertension and Cardiology (ISSN 2329-9487).

Journal editorial board
Hatori Nobuo · Japan Gregor Leibundgut · Switzerland Yuejin Li · United States

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