We are very pleased to announce that our recent ESH 2019 Summer School with 65 participants in Vravrona (Greece) held from September 15 to 19, was a great success.

Once again, the ESH Summer School reached its main goal to be a networking, educative and innovative experience. Insightful presentations, interactive discussions and clinical take-home messages for the young participants was a must.

Study of the European Society of Hypertension on Blood Pressure Control in ESH Excellence Centres, dedicated to Professor Alberto Zanchetti.
The most important task of the European Society of Hypertension is to improve blood pressure treatment and increase blood pressure control, thus decreasing cardiovascular risk, premature cardiovascular and renal morbidity and mortality, with in addition a reduction of health-care costs.

Summary on WG Ongoing Projects and Call for Members

The Working Group on «Hypertension and the Kidney» consists of a group of scientists from 21 European and non-European countries interested in clinical and research aspects in the broad field of Hypertension and the Kidney, such as hypertension in patients with CKD (including dialysis and transplantation), renovascular hypertension (atherosclerotic disease and fibromuscular dysplasia), renoparenchymal hypertension, nephroprotective actions of antihypertensive agents, diabetic nephropathy and others.

The new “2018 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and European Society of Hypertension (ESH) Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension” are available for you here.
The development of the guidelines was led by Prof. Bryan Williams (ESC Chairperson), London UK, and Prof. Giuseppe Mancia (ESH Chairperson), Milan Italy, as lead authors.