(Hypertension. 1997;29:144.)
© 1997 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Proceedings of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, 1996
Guest Editor
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This issue of Hypertension contains selected manuscripts based on presentations made at the 50th Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research The meeting was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, III, from September 17 through 20, 1996 The conference was preceded by a workshop on the Molecular Genetic Analysis of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease that was organized by Richard P Lifton, Diane E Handy, and Theodore A Kotchen The program for the conference included 82 slide presentations and 175 posters that were selected from the 534 submitted abstracts These presentations, which were judged the best hypertension research, covered a variety of topics from genetics, molecular biology, receptors, vascular biology, and signal transduction to clinical hypertension and obesity All presenters were encouraged to submit a manuscript for consideration for publication in this proceedings issue of Hypertension There was no page limitation on the submitted manuscripts There were 115 manuscripts submitted and 62 were accepted for publication Manuscripts were reviewed by two referees and a section Editor Only the manuscripts that required no or minor revisions were accepted for publication in this issue Section Editors were members of the Publications Committee of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research and included Kenneth M Baker, Gary H Gibbons, Joey Granger, Joseph L Izzo, Theodore Kurtz, Thomas E Lohmeier, Mariana Morris, John W Osborn, Nancy J Rusch, William C Sessa, and James R Sowers
I am grateful to these committee members for the