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(Hypertension. 1998;31:151.)
© 1998 American Heart Association, Inc.

Preface

Proceedings of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, 1997

William B. Campbell, PhD

Guest Editor

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This issue of Hypertension contains selected manuscripts based on presentations made at the 51st Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research. The meeting was held at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC, from September 16 through 19, 1997. The conference was preceded by the Workshop on Vascular Biology and Hypertension: From Molecules to Humans, which was organized by Drs John E. Hall. R. Clinton Webb, and Willa Hsueh. The program for the conference included 80 oral presentations and 196 posters that were selected from the 525 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 were 129 manuscripts submitted and 66 were accepted for publication. Manuscripts were reviewed by two referees and a Section Editor. Only the manuscripts that required minor or no 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, George Bakris, Gary H. Gibbons, David R. Harder, Joseph R. Haywood, Joseph L. Izzo. Howard Jacob, Margot LaPointe, Thomas E. Lohmeier, and James R. Sowers.

I am grateful to these committee members for the time and diligent efforts that they devoted to the evaluation of the submitted . . . [Full Text of this Article]