Abstract:The morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases are increasing globally. Pathological car-diac remodeling plays an important role in the development of cardiovascular diseases. More and more investiga-tions focus on the alterations of cardiac metabolism in pathological cardiac remodeling. Cardiac substrate metabo-lism is severely impaired during cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure, a shift from fatty acid metabolism to glu-cose metabolism, resulting in aggravated cardiac dysfunction. This review analyzes the relationship among the me-tabolism of different substrates in pathological cardiac remodeling. Based on these metabolic changes, we summa-rize the pharmacological agents, and raise new drug development strategies from the perspective of metabolic reg-ulation, leading to an improved prognosis and treatment of patients with cardiac remodeling diseases.