Science News from Council on Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2015
September 16 – 19, 2015
Washington, D.C.
The Council on Hypertension Scientific Sessions 2015 Conference takes place in Washington, D.C. from September 16-19, 2015.
SCIENCE NEWS coverage includes video interviews with council and program chairs, awards finalists and winners, and keynote lecturers as well as selected science and statistics related to the topics presented each day of the meeting.
Top Videos
Mark Creager, MD, president of the American Heart Association, interviews Joey Granger, PhD, program chair of Hypertension 2015, about the science that will be presented during the meeting.
Mark Creager, MD, president of the American Heart Association, interviews Gary Gibbons, director, NHLBI/NIH, about his keynote lecture, "Building on the NHLBI Legacy of Hypertension Research: Charting Our Future Together."
Wednesday's Selected Science
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Keynote Lecture - Building on the NHLBI Legacy of Hypertension Research: Charting Our Future Together
Gary H Gibbons | NHLBI, Bethesda, MD
Environmental Epigenetics: A Role in Cardiovascular Disease?
Andrea Baccarelli | Boston, MA
Resistant and Refractory Hypertension: Antihypertensive Treatment Resistance versus Treatment Failure
David A Calhoun | Birmingham, AL
Women & Cardiovascular Disease: Is there a Sex Difference?
Martha Gulati | Columbus, OH
Thursday's Selected Science
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025 - Evidence for a Link between Gut Microbiota and Hypertension in the Dahl Rat Model
Blair Mell | University of Toledo, Toledo, OH
027 - Intestinal Permeability and Dysbiosis are Linked to Hypertension
Monica M Santisteban | University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
038 - Placental Growth Factor Supplementation Abolishes Placental Ischemia-induced Hypertension
Frank T Spradley | University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
Friday's Selected Science
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Environmental Epigenetics: A Role in Cardiovascular Disease?
Andrea Baccarelli | Boston, MA
105 - High Salt Activates Immune Cells to Promote Hypertension
Annet Kirabo | Vanderbilt University College of Medicine, Nashville, TN
087 - Human Stomach Cell Gastrin Inhibits Renal NHE3 and NaKATPase in Concert With the Renal D1R
John J Gildea | University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Excellence Award in Hypertension Research 2015 Finalist: Hypertensive cerebral microangiopathy and Alzheimer’s disease: small vessels, big tolls
Costantino Iadecola, New York, NY
Excellence Award in Hypertension Research 2015 Finalist: Gastro-renal communication: role in hypertension
Pedro Jose, Baltimore, MD
Saturday's Selected Science
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Autoimmunity in the Pathogenesis of Hypertension
Bernardo Rodriguez-Iturbe | Maracaibo, Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela
114 - K+ Rich Diet During Angiotensin II Hypertension Reduces Renal Na-Cl Cotransporter and Phosphorylation, but Not Blood Pressure
Luciana C Veiras | University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
132 - Leptin-mediated Aldosterone Secretion Causes Hypertension in Obese Females
Eric J Belin de Chantemèle | Georgia Regents University, Augusta, GA
127 - Agonistic Autoantibodies to Angiotensin II Type I Receptor Contributes Partly to Placental Ischemia-induced Cerebrovascular Abnormalities
Junie P Warrington | University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS