The first version of the national guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure was developed in 2010, and updated in 2013.

In 2021, as in the previous years, training activities related to World Heart Day were held for a week under the title of Isfahan World Heart Week.

The focus of World Heart Week was the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination and continued prevention efforts, its complications, and effects on cardiovascular disease, familial hypercholesterolemia, and awareness of lifestyle modification to prevent and control cardiovascular disease and hypertension.

The first meeting of the Acute Coronary Syndrome Guideline (ACS) preparation group was held virtually on Wednesday, July 2, 2021, and the first phase of the project officially began. The main purpose of this guideline is to optimize the patients' care with the acute coronary syndrome.

It is pleasure to announce that Arya Atherosclerosis journal has scored 0.19 in the new JCI (Journal citation indicator) rating . This index is provided by Clarivate is a single measurement of the field-normalized citation impact of journals in the Web of Science Core Collection across disciplines. 

World Hypertension Day with the slogan "Measure your blood pressure, control it, live longer" was held on May 17, 2022 by  Hypertension Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute.  On this day, the blood pressure of all staffs of the Cardiovascular Research Institute, the patients referred to the blood pressure clinic and heart clinic were measured.