The annual European Hypertension Meetings offer the highest quality scientific programs related to research in Basic and Clinic areas in Hypertension with State-of-the-Art Lectures, Satellite Symposia, Teaching Sessions and credits for qualifying as Hypertension Specialists of the European Society of Hypertension.

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Record Number of Abstracts Submitted!

The Scientific Committee is pleased to announce that a record number of 1800 abstracts have been submitted for the 22nd European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Prevention.

Thank you to all the authors for their contributions!

ESH Presidents invitation

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to attend the 22nd Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) which will take place in London, UK, from April 26 to 29, 2012.

The scientific program will continue the tradition of many previous ESH meetings. This means that a major portion of the program will be concentrate on original research with oral and poster presentations which will be selected from the large number of abstracts submitted by the participants, based on in-depth assessment by reviewers of the abstracts.

The 2012 ESH meeting will also contain a broad range of clinical and experimental research papers presented in numerous state-of-the-art lectures, Plenary Sessions, Debates, How-To and other Teaching Sessions, Breakfast Workshops, Integrated Sessions for ESH Working Groups and Satellite Symposia. The European Society of Hypertension has in various aspects developed educational activities in cooperation with the European Society of Cardiology, one of these being recognitions and accreditations of medical specialities. Thus, in London widespread EBAC accreditation for continuous medical education will be requested.

The ESH meetings attract not only investigators, researchers, clinicians and others from all European countries but also many people with interests in hypertension from the Americas, Japan and Asia, the Middle-East and the rest of the World. The scientific agenda contains the most updated researches, controversies and consensuses in the field of clinical and experimental hypertension. Over the years the ESH meetings have been steadily growing and several thousands of people are expected in London at ESH 2012 as well.

Hypertension creates an interest over a broad range of medical specialities, from family medicine and general practise to the specialist fields of cardiology, nephrology, endocrinology and further on to physiology and pharmacology. Hypertension is closely related to various cardiovascular,endocrine and renal diseases both as a cause and a consequence. Hypertension is central in not only the so-called metabolic syndrome, diabetes and in obesity, but also in stress medicine, physiology and in epidemiology. There is an armament of drugs available for treatment of hypertension and new ones are reaching the market, increasingly in combination.

Besides all this, there is a rapid development of modern equipment and technical set-up for up-to-date ambulatory diagnostic work and non-invasive research on various aspects of the pathophysiology of hypertension, its hemodynamic profile, related conditions including obesity,diabetes and the metabolic syndrome as indicated above, and experimental research.

The ESH meeting in London will be held in the new and large ICC London, located in the heart of the Docklands area. The Congress venue is well-connected to down-town London, thanks to train and underground networks.

You are all cordially invited to London and the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) meeting in April 2012!

Yours Sincerely,

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