International Meeting of the French Society of Hypertension 2010

The 30th Journées de l'Hypertension Artérielle (4th International Meeting) will confirm our will of having an international meeting, that registered in 2009 a significant number of specialists coming from several European countries. A series of events (among them, inaugural conferences by Prof A. Zanchetti and Prof D. Ganten, final conference by Prof M Fink) will celebrate the 30th birthday of our annual congress.

As last year, the scientific programme in 2010 has been built in direct collaboration with the Belgian and Swiss Societies of Hypertension. Partnership with other Scientific Societies has also been strengthened through the organisation of workshops and update sessions with the French Society of Nephrology, the New French Society of Atherosclerosis, the Society on Biomechanics, the French Group of Cardiovascular Research and the National College of French Cardiologists.

This year again, a workshop will be especially dedicated to General Practitioners, the first actors in diagnosis and care of hypertension. Also, a special session will be dealing with the specific epidemiological aspects of Hypertension in the francophone countries. If we consider the symposia organized by the pharmaceutical industry, the scientific programme appears to be rich, dense, and varied. The idea of “paths”, now traditional, has been maintained.

We are now looking forward to receiving your contributions, in the form of oral communications and posters, and we hope they will be as numerous as in the past and even more.

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