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(Hypertension. 1999;33:607-608.)
© 1999 American Heart Association, Inc.

Editorial

Hypertension

The First Five Years

Edward D. Frohlich, MD, Editor-in-Chief; L. Gabriel Navar, PhD; Richard N. Ré, MD, Associate Editors

As we indicated in last month's editorial, 1999 marks the 20th Anniversary of Hypertension. The editors, desirous of celebrating this milestone, thought long and hard about how we might emphasize its importance for our readers without inordinately depriving our authors of valuable page space. To do this, we first elected to cite the important individuals who brought their influence to bear in establishing Hypertension as one of the American Heart Association's scientific publications. Last month we honored Dr Louis Tobian, who was the Chairman of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, for bringing his forceful message loud and clear to the American Heart Association and its Scientific Publications Committee.

This month we are pleased to feature the first editor of the journal, Dr Harriet P. Dustan, who was also most important for her influence in creating our journal. As she indicates in her recollections in this month's issue, she accepted editorship for a five-year period perhaps out of forfeiture; but this was indeed a fortunate selection for the readers of the journal and the members of the Council. Assisted by Drs Suzanne Oparil and Henry Overbeck as Associate Editors, she was able to bring Hypertension from a journal published every other month (including the proceedings issue of the Fall scientific conference of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research) to a journal that would be published monthly (with the Council's Fall proceedings as a 13th issue) in the hands of the next editorial team, to be honored next month, . . . [Full Text of this Article]