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Proceedings of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, 1998
This issue of Hypertension contains selected manuscripts based on presentations made at the 52nd Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association, Council for High Blood Pressure Research. The meeting was held at the Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel, Philadelphia, Pa, September 15–18, 1998. The conference was preceded by the Workshop on Mechanisms of Target Organ Injury in Hypertension, which was organized by Drs John E. Hall, Russell L. Prewitt, and Ernesto L. Schiffrin. The program for the conference included 74 oral presentations and 179 posters, which were selected from the 480 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 123 manuscripts submitted, and 72 were accepted for publication. Manuscripts were reviewed by 2 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 L. Bakris, Donald J. DiPette, Anna Dominiczak, Gary H. Gibbons, Joey P. Granger, David R. Harder, Joseph R. Haywood, Joseph L. Izzo, Margot LaPointe, Thomas E. Lohmeier, and Leopoldo Raij.
I am grateful to these committee members for the time and diligent
efforts that they devoted to the