List of Contributors

Enrico Agabiti-Rosei,     Clinica Medica, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Tine de Backer

Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Cardiovascular Center, University Hospital Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

Luc van Bortel,     Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Pierre Boutouyrie

Department of Pharmacology, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou – Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale—INSERM U970, Paris, France

Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France

Michel Burnier,     Service of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Mark Caulfield,     William Harvey Research Institute, NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Cardiovascular Disease at Barts Queen Mary University of London, UK

Pascal Challande,     Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CNRS—UMR 7190, Paris, France

Pedro G. Cunha

Center for the Research and Treatment of Arterial Hypertension and Cardiovascular Risk, Internal Medicine Department, Guimarães—Centro Hospitalar do Alto Ave/Minho University, Guimarães, Portugal

Life and Health Science Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Science, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

ICVS/3B’s—PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

Stephanie Debette

Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Bordeaux, and Center for Epidemiology and Public Health—INSERM U897, University of Bordeaux, France

Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

Andreas Edsfeldt

Experimental Cardiovascular Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Skåne, Malmö/Lund, Sweden

Isabel Ferreira

Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Technology Assessment, and CARIM School for Cardiovascular Diseases, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

School of Public Health, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Stanley S. Franklin,     Heart Disease Prevention Program, Division of Cardiology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Frej Fyhrquist,     Minerva Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Panagiotis I. Georgianos,     Section of Nephrology and Hypertension, 1st Department of Medicine, AHEPA Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Isabel Gonçalves

Experimental Cardiovascular Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Skåne, Malmö/Lund, Sweden

Dagmara Hering,     Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Jens Jordan,     Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, Medical School Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Vasilios Kotsis,     Hypertension Centre of Excellence, 3rd Department of Internal Medicine, Papageorgiou Hospital, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Michaela Kozakova,     Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Roel J. van de Laar,     Department of Internal Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Patrick Lacolley

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale—INSERM U116

Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

Jérémy Lagrange

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale—INSERM U116

Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

Edward G. Lakatta,     Laboratory of Cardiovascular Science, Intramural Research Program, Biomedical Research Center, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Baltimore, MD, USA

Irene Lambrinoudaki,     Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Stéphane Laurent

Department of Pharmacology, Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou – Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale—INSERM U970, Paris, France

Yimin Lu,     Service of Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland

Carmel M. McEniery,     Department Experimental Medicine and Immunotherapeutics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Krzysztof Narkiewicz,     Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

Jan Nilsson,     Experimental Cardiovascular Research Unit, Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden

Peter M. Nilsson,     Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden

Juan E. Ochoa,     Department of Cardiovascular Neural and Metabolic Sciences, S. Luca Hospital, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

Michael H. Olsen

Cardiovascular and Metabolic Preventive Clinic, Department of Endocrinology, Center for Individualized Medicine in Arterial Diseases, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark

Hypertension in Africa Research Team, School for Physiology, Nutrition and Consumer Sciences, North-West University,Potchefstroom, South Africa

Carl J. Östgren,     Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

Carlo Palombo,     Department of Surgical, Medical, Molecular and Critical Area Pathology, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Gianfranco Parati

Department of Health Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Department of Cardiovascular Neural and Metabolic Sciences, S. Luca Hospital, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

Veronique Regnault

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale—INSERM U116

Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France

Meixia Ren,     William Harvey Research Institute, Centre for Clinical Pharmacology, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Ernst Rietzschel

Departments of Cardiovascular Diseases & Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

Department of Cardiology, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium

Damiano Rizzoni,     Clinica Medica, Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy

Paolo Salvi,     Department of Cardiovascular Neural and Metabolic Sciences, S. Luca Hospital, IRCCS Istituto Auxologico Italiano, Milan, Italy

Pantelis A. Sarafidis,     Department of Nephrology, Hippokration Hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

Giuseppe Schillaci

Department of Medicine, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy

Unit of Internal Medicine, Terni University Hospital, Terni, Italy

Arno Schmidt-Truksäss,     Department of Sport, Exercise and Health, Sport and Exercise Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Angelo Scuteri,     Hospital San Raffaele Pisana, Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS), Rome, Italy

Patrick Segers,     IBiTech-bioMMeda, iMinds Medical IT, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium

Thomas Sehestedt,     Department of Cardiology, Herlev...