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(Circulation. 2000;101:2.)
© 2000 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorials

Circulation’s First 50 Years

January 1950 to January 2000

James T. Willerson, MD¹

¹ For the Editors

This issue of Circulation marks its 50th birthday. The first issue of Circulation was published in January 1950. In an accompanying editorial written by H.M. Marvin, MD, then the President of the American Heart Association, he stated that Circulation was the official journal of the American Heart Association and that the publication of the first issue "represents a major step toward the realization of an ambition long cherished by the Editorial Board and by many of our members; namely, the creation of a scientific journal that shall be acknowledged as foremost in the world among those devoted to a special field of medicine."¹

The Editorial Board created for Circulation included physician/scientists representing "newer techniques and additional specialties of the time, such as roentgenology, public health and preventive medicine, anticoagulants, and catheterization of the heart." Dr Marvin intended that the membership of the Editorial Board would be maintained such that it was "constantly and truly representative of all groups interested in the circulation, both clinical and investigative." He further stated that:

Circulation is addressed to all those interested in the cardiovascular system in health and disease—the research scientist, the specialist, the practicing physician. Its intention is to include articles in the basic sciences relating to this field and papers representing the finest type of clinical research, as well as those which are mainly ‘practical’ in their application. Recent years have witnessed a remarkable widening of interest in the physiologic and biochemical aspects of the circulation. The journal would fail in one . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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