23rd Annual Scientific Meeting and Exposition of the American Society of Hypertension 2008
News articles from this congress period.(Not all news articles may relate to the specific congress).
The 2008 annual meeting of the American Society of Hypertension took place during 14–17 May in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Society’s president Professor Suzanne Oparil said that the aim of the meeting was to shift the focus toward hypertensive patients and the primary care physicians who are their first-line healthcare providers.
Here, we report on issues crucial to primary care providers, including how to manage patients with prehypertension and nocturnal hypertension, as well as the pick of the posters, debates, and late-breaking trials.