ESH Winter School 2010 - Advanced Course on Hypertension
March 7-12 - St. Moritz, Switzerland

Course Directors:
Renata Cifkova, Prague, Czech Republic
Giuseppe Mancia, Milan, Italy

 

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Large clinical trials in hypertension: past, presence and future - State-of-the-art lecture - Audio Podcast (slides not available)
Giuseppe Mancia, Milan, Italy

Hypertensive emergencies
Csaba Farsang, Budapest, Hungary

A reappraisal of the European guidelines on hypertension management - Audio Podcast (slides not available)
Giuseppe Mancia, Milan, Italy

Hypertension and heart failure
Athanasios Manolis, Athens, Greece

Hypertension and atrial fibrillation
Wolfgang Kiowski, Zurich, Switzerland


Monday, March 8, 2010

Microalbuminuria an renal function in hypertension
Josep Redon, Valencia, Spain

Antihypertensive treatment in nehropatich patientes
Antonio Salvetti, Pisa, Italy
Genomics and cardiovascular disease - Ingenious HyperCare project
Anna Dominiczak, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Early vascular aging
Peter Nilsson, Malmö, Sweden

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The brain and hypertension
Antonio Coca, Barcelona, Spain

Insulin resistance and blood pressure
Sverre E. Kjeldsen, Oslo, Norway

Hypertension and diabetes
Peter Nilsson, Malmo, Sweden

“How to” design and carry out a clinical trial
Sverre E. Kjeldsen, Oslo, Norway

Resistant hypertension
Serap Erdine, Istanbul, Turkey

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Blood pressure and exercise - Non-pharmacologic measures in the treatment of hypertension
Sverre E. Kjeldsen, Oslo, Norway

Hypertension in the elderly
Sverre E. Kjeldsen, Oslo, Norway

Arterial stiffness in hypertension
Stéphane Laurent, Paris, France

“How” to read papers critically: weaknesses of some published clinical trials and meta-analyses
Peter Sleight, Oxford, United Kingdom

“How to” assess sympathetic nervous activity
Krzysztof Narkiewicz, Gdansk, Poland

Global burden and epidemiology of hypertension
Renata Cifkova, Prague, Czech Republic


Thursday, March 11, 2010

Use and Interpretation of office, home and ambulatory blood pressure monitoring
Gianfranco Parati, Milan, Italy

White-coat and masked hypertension
Jean-Michel Mallion, Grenoble, France

New methods for measuring renin in human plasma
Alberto Morganti, Milan, Italy

Renal Artery Stenosis
Alberto Morganti, Milan, Italy

“How to” assess an echocardiogram and how to perform a carotid ultrasound examination
Enrico Agabiti-Rosei, Brescia, Italy

Microcirculation in hypertension
Enrico Agabiti-Rosei, Brescia, Italy

Friday, March 12, 2010

Hypertension in pregnancy
Renata Cifkova, Prague, Czech Republic

Endocrine hypertension: classification, prevalence and pathophysiology
Gian Paolo Rossi, Padova, Italy

Endocrine hypertension: diagnosis, treatment and research perspectives
Gian Paolo Rossi, Padova, Italy

Endothelial function
Stefano Taddei, Pisa, Italy