(Hypertension. 1998;32:155.)
© 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.
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Third Workshop on Structure and Function of Large Arteries: Part I |
Editorial Commentary
Correspondence to Edward D. Frohlich, MD, Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, 1516 Jefferson Highway, BH-514, New Orleans, LA 70121.
The articles that
follow in this issue of Hypertension represent part
of the proceedings of a special symposium, the "Third Workshop on
Structure and Function of Large Arteries," a program organized by
Professor Michel Safar on January 23 and 24, 1998. This workshop was
organized in the context of a special Biomed Program of the European
Community with a special educational grant-in-aid from Servier
Laboratories.
Each of the papers submitted for publication have been subjected to the
same peer review process that applies to all manuscripts submitted to
Hypertension. This peer review process involved a prior
selection of journal-approved reviewers with the intent that the
accepted manuscripts would be included in regular issues of the journal
rather than in a special journal supplement. Professor Safar agreed to
serve as Guest Editor and to work closely with the Editor-in-Chief at
each step to ensure that no breach occurred with our agreed procedure.
Moreover, he and the grantor agreed to discuss with the American Heart
Association, in advance and independent of journal editors, all
financial arrangements with each of the foregoing administrative and
editorial stipulations.
Professor Safar organized an Associate Editorial team including Hans
Brunner, MD, Lausanne, Switzerland; Giuseppe Mancia, MD,
Milan, Italy; Gérard London, MD, Paris, France; and Michael
O'Rourke, MD, Darlinghurst, Australia. As in the previous workshop,
the Associate Guest Editors then selected, well in advance of the
meeting and with prior agreement by the Editors, all potential
reviewers. The workshop participants/authors all came to the meeting
with their manuscripts, which were immediately sent to the reviewers.
Those papers that passed the proscribed review process were forwarded
to the editorial office for publication in the July, August, and
September issues of Hypertension.
The workshop was organized according to the following topics:
mechanotransduction and the arterial wall;
arterial remodeling and wall thickness; advances in
methodology and technology with subsequent therapeutic applications;
endothelium and mechanical factors; pulsatile
arterial hemodynamics; and the impact of
each of these areas on cardiovascular genetics and
epidemiology. A great attempt was made to
relate arterial changes in hypertension to the new aspects
of molecular biology. We hope our readers will be as impressed and
challenged as the journal's Editor and Guest Editors were by the
increasing diversity of the techniques and expertise of this maturing
investigative field of large artery involvement and function in
hypertension research.
Edward D. Frohlich
Editor-in-Chief
Michel E. Safar
Guest Editor
Hans Brunner Giuseppe Mancia Gérard
London Michael O'Rourke
Associate Guest Editors
