Cardiovascular diseases are still one of the diseases that lead to high mortality.Currently,drugs for preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases can significantly improve symptoms,but there are still shortcomings in re-ducing mortality rates.Therefore,new drugs that can improve symptoms and reduce mortality are needed.As a kind of hydroxylase inhibitor,roxadustat can effectively improve the symptoms of hypoxia by regulating the expression of hypoxia in-ducible factor(HIF).HIF is involved in almost all developmental,pathological or physiological processes in the body,including erythropoietin production,iron uptake,and metablism,cellular differentiation,energy metablism,inflammation and immune regulation.At present,the drug has a good prospect in the treatment of renal anemia,but it is rarely used in cardiovascular diseases.In this paper,the effects of roxadustat on cardiovascular diseases were systematically and com-prehensively discussed,and some help was provided for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.