Congress Reports (1997)

Welcome to the American Heart Association Congress Reports page.The 70th Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association included 4298 abstracts and posters in addition to the many plenary lectures, clinical councils in cardiology and 'how-to' sessions. Therefore, of necessity, this report represents a selection taken from the vast amount of material presented at the meeting.The reports from the sessions are complemented by commentary 'from the delegates perspective', p

28 May 1997 at The Hyatt Regency at Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, California, USA The symposium was sponsored by the American Society of Hypertension and supported by an educational grant from Zeneca Pharmaceuticals

Welcome to the European Society of Cardiology Congress Reports page containing reports on key issues and current developments in cardiovascular medicine. The reports are complemented by reports from the delegates perspective, provided by Professor Carl Pepine and Dr John Cleland.

8th European Meeting on Hypertension Milan, June 1997

The 16th Triennial Congress of the International Diabetes Federation received nearly 3000 abstracts from more that 93 countries. The meeting highlighted the global interest in diabetes and in cardiovascular complications associated with the disease. This report highlights key sessions discussing cardiovascular complications in patients with both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.

This symposium on hypertension and diabetes was attended by experts from many disciplines. The programme for the meeting was designed to integrate basic and clinical science and provided an avenue for discussion of good clinical practice based on current knowledge. The highlights presented below focus on the treatment of hypertension and other complications in patients with both insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM) and non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM).

Organisers: M Burnier (Switzerland), G Boner (Israel), H Brunner (Switzerland), D van Dijk (Israel), A Donker (The Netherlands), CE Mogensen (Denmark) This meeting had originally been planned as a satellite of the European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association Congress in Israel, but was hastily reorganised when this Congress was moved to Geneva. In the event the Symposium did not suffer from these rearrangements, and was well attended by mos