Athanasios J. Manolis, Krzysztof Narkiewicz, Sverre E. Kjeldsen, Renata Cifková, and Giuseppe Mancia for the ESH Council                                  

The aim of the ESH is threefold:

1. To disseminate the latest information regarding optimal approaches for diagnosis and management of hypertension
2. To provide a forum for presentation of research by investigators
3. To provide training and credentialing of hypertensive specialists

The ESH wishes to cooperate at various levels with the National and International Hypertension Societies that share its goals, and endorse international meetings related to hypertension and cardiovascular prevention and therapy with a balanced scientific content. 

The ESH will endorse meetings according to the following criteria:

Endorsement will be given by the ESH to International Meetings or Symposia with international participation, if they meet the following criteria:

1. The application should be submitted in advance, in order to give the ESH Council member(s) sufficient time to discuss the issue.
2. The application needs to be accompanied by the scientific program of the meeting and the roster of the speakers. It also needs to be accompanied by a short history of the meeting(s) and the scientific program(s) of the previous meeting(s).
3. An especially-assigned ESH Council member, who is not directly involved in the meeting activity, will handle the application. An early assessment will be given to meeting organisers, i.e. if the scientific meeting fulfils the above criteria the organisers will soon receive from the ESH Council member a preliminary endorsement before the Council meeting, and then the assessment will be submitted to the next ESH Council meeting for formal approval.
4. Pre- or Post-Congress Satellite Symposia of the ESH meetings and ESH Teaching Faculty Symposia will be automatically endorsed.

ESH website:

All meetings endorsed by the ESH will be displayed on the Society's website, so people from different countries may be informed in advance and decide whether they would like to participate.

The following meetings were endorsed by the European Society of Hypertension:

2007

1. Prevalence, diagnosis and treatment of primary aldosteronism. Satellite Symposium of the ESH meeting. Padua, June, 2007.
2. 1st International Portuguese Hypertension Meeting Villamoura, Algarve, Portugal, February 8-11,2007
3. XIth World Congress of Echocardiography and Cardiovascular Ultrasound and 1st International Congress on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Prevention Rhodes, Greece, June 29-July 1st, 2007.

2006

1. Satellite Symposium of the ESH meeting. 'New insights in the pathophysiology and treatment of hypertension' Pisa, Italy, May 24, 2006, Prof A. Salvetti.
2. Satellite Symposium of the ESH meeting 'Treating hypertensive patients with multiple risk factors' Myconos, Greece, July 1, 2006, Prof. A. J. Manolis.
3. XIV International Symposium on Atherosclerosis. Rome, Italy, June 18-22, 2006.
4. Joint Symposium of the Czech Society of Hypertension and the Belgian Society of Hypertension. Marianske Lazne, Czech Republic, October 7, 2006.
5. XXII World Congress of the International Union of Angiology. Lisbon, Portugal, June 24-26, 2006. Prof. Novo, Prof. Fernandes.
6. Role of ACE-inhibitors in Cardiovascular Prevention. Istanbul, Turkey, July, 6-7, 2006. Prof. S. Erdine, Prof. C. Borghi.
7. 3rd Mediterranean Meeting on Hypertension and Atherosclerosis. Antalya, Turkey, 2006. Prof. S. Erdine.
8. 2nd International Meeting on the Renin-Angiotensin System. Riga, Latvia, May 25-26, 2006
9. 6th Artery Meeting. Athens, Greece, September 22-23, 2006.

2005

1. 1st International Summit on Intra-Abdominal Adiposity and Related Comorbidities. Madrid, Spain, July 1-3, 2006.
2. The Failing Heart Under Stress. Amsterdam, Holland, November, 20-22,2006.
3. 2nd Mediterranean Meeting on Hypertension and Atherosclerosis. Antalya, Turkey, April 2006. Prof. S. Erdine

2004

1. 1st Mediterranean Meeting on Hypertension and Atherosclerosis. Antalya, Turkey, April 2004. Prof. S. Erdine