Proceedings of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research, 1996

This issue of Hypertension contains selected manuscripts based on presentations made at the 50th Annual Fall Conference and Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association Council for High Blood Pressure Research The meeting was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Chicago, III, from September 17 through 20, 1996 The conference was preceded by a workshop on the Molecular Genetic Analysis of Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease that was organized by Richard P Lifton, Diane E Handy, and Theodore A Kotchen The program for the conference included 82 slide presentations and 175 posters that were selected from the 534 submitted abstracts These presentations, which …