Dear colleagues, dear ESH friends!
The ESH Scientific Council has now started its work and is going about it with full strength and joy with the support of our new Secretary, Andrzej Januszewicz (Warsaw, Poland) and new Treasurer, Prof. Jorge Polonia (Porto, Portugal). We welcome Prof. Guido Grassi (Milan, Italy), Thomas Weber (Wels, Austria) as regular new members and Prof. Maria Dorobantu (Bucharest, Romania) as Ex-Officio Member representing the Presidents of ESH Affiliated Societies.

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.

The STRIDE BP is an international scientific non-profit organization founded by hypertension experts with the mission to improve the accuracy of blood pressure measurement and hypertension diagnosis globally.
It is officially supported by the European Society of Hypertension, the International Society of Hypertension, and the World Hypertension League.

The STRIDE BP website (www.stridebp.org) provides lists of accurate devices for Office, Home and Ambulatory blood pressure measurement

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.