Editor-in-Chief

Tsvetoslav Georgiev
Medical University – Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1652-4648

Editor-in-Chief Emeritus

Rumen Stoilov
Medical University – Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6340-9650

Zlatimir Kolarov
Medical University – Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5819-0842

Deputy Editors-in-Chief

Anastas Batalov
Medical University – Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8857-0574

Mariana Ivanova
Medical University – Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0441-3043

Mariela Geneva-Popova
Medical University – Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7655-3846

Editorial Advisor

Armen Yuri Gasparyan
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8749-6018

Statistical Editor

Todor Kundurdzhiev
Medical University – Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria

Publishing Coordinator

Stoimen Dimitrov
Medical University – Varna, Varna, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0009-0007-0559-8506

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Editorial Board Members

(in alphabetical order)

Alexandre Sepriano
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1954-0229

Antoaneta Toncheva
National Transport Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria

Dimitrios Bogdanos
University of Thessaly, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9697-7902

Dora Zlatareva
Medical University – Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5298-2278

Irena Manolova
Medical University – Stara Zagora, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4905-6537

Krasimir Kraev
Medical University – Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1155-117X

Ljubinka Damjanovska
University Rheumatology Clinic, Skopje, North Macedonia
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0837-212X

Mariya Panchovska
Medical University – Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5271-2902

Nemanja Damjanov
University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6249-7428

Nikolay Stoilov
University Hospital “St. Ivan Rilski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
Medical University – Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7183-086X

Olena Zimba
Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4188-8486

Plamen Todorov
Medical University – Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9887-6064

Rositsa Karalilova
Medical University – Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8030-0529

Simeon Monov
Medical University – Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8074-3768

Stefka Neycheva
Military Medical Academy, Sofia, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7976-705X

Stefka Radenska-Lopovok
I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4669-260X
Scopus Author ID: 6603930750

Tsvetanka Petranova
Medical University – Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5089-4925

Velichka Popova
Medical University – Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5733-5520

Vladimira Boyadzhieva
Medical University – Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6780-5810

Zlatimir Kolarov
Medical University – Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5819-0842

Xenofon Baraliakos
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9475-9362