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(Hypertension. 2001;37:341.)
© 2001 American Heart Association, Inc.

Preface

Proceedings of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, 2000

Donald J. DiPette, MD, Guest Editor

	Introduction

 
This issue of Hypertension contains selected manuscripts based on presentations made at the 54th Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research. The meeting was held in Washington, DC, October 24 through 27, 2000. The conference was preceded by the Workshop on Growth and Death of Cardiovascular Cells: Mechanisms and Implications for Cardiovascular Remodeling and Injury, which was organized by Dr Alberto Nasjletti. The program for the conference included 79 oral presentations and 206 posters that were selected from the 468 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 133 manuscripts submitted, and 81 were accepted for publication. Manuscripts were reviewed by two referees and a section editor. Only the manuscripts that were highly meritorious and that required minor or no revision were accepted. Section editors were members of the Publications Committee of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research and included Abraham Aviv, Toshio Fujita, Kenneth Jamerson, Jose Eduardo Krieger, Daniel Levy, Thomas Lohmeier, L. Gabriel Navar, Leopoldo Raij, Mohan Raizada, Richard Roman, Donna Wang, Stephanie Watts, and R. Clinton Webb.

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