2011 ASH Program Book - American Society of Hypertension

MAY 22
Posters
Sunday Morning
PO-202: Can High Dose of Valsartan Improve Ventricular-
Vascular Coupling in Heart Failure
Wook‐Jin Chung†, 1 Hye‐Sun Seo, 2 Sung‐Hee Shin, 3
Young‐Sup Byun, 4 Sung‐Kee Ryu, 5 Wook‐Bum Pyun, 6
Se‐Joong Rim. 7 1 Gachon University Gil Hospital,
Gachon University School of Medicine, Incheon,
KR; 2 Inha University Hospital, KR; 3 Soonchunhyang
University School of Medicine, KR; 4 Sanggye Paik
Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, KR;
5 Eulji General Hospital, Eulji University School of
Medicine, KR; 6 Ewha Womans University, School of
Medicine, KR; 7 Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei
University College of Medicine, KR.
PO-203: Can N-Terminal pro-B Type Natriuretic Peptide
Predict LV Diastolic Dysfunction in Hypertensive
Heart Disease
Wook‐Jin Chung, 1 Sung‐Hee Shin, 2 Hye‐Sun Seo, 3
Young‐Sup Byun, 4 Sung‐Kee Ryu, 5 Wook‐Bum
Pyun, 6 Se‐Joong Rim. 7 1 Gachon University Gil
Hospital, Gachon University School of Medicine,
Incheon, KR; 2 Inha University Hospital, Incheon,
KR; 3 Soonchunhyang University School of Medicine,
Bucheon, KR; 4 Sanggye Paik Hospital, Inje University
College of Medicine, KR; 5 Eulji General Hospital, Eulji
University School of Medicine, KR; 6 Ewha Womans
University, School of Medicine, KR; 7 Gangnam
Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of
Medicine, KR.
PO-204: PPARg Agonist Inhibits, and PPARg Antagonist
Exacerbates, Pressure Overload-Induced Cardiac
Fibrosis and Dysfunction
Kaizheng Gong, Yiu‐Fai Chen, Peng Li, Wei Zhang,
Fadi Hage, Namasivayam Ambalavanan, Suzanne
Oparil, Dongqi Xing. University of Alabama at
Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, US.
PO-205: Left Ventricular Mass Index is Associated with
Cognitive Impairment Independently of Blood
Pressure in the Elderly
Manabu Hayakawa, 1,2 Yuichiro Yano, 2,3 Kazuo
Kuroki, 1 Kazuyuki Shimada, 3 Kazuomi Kario. 3
1 Kushima Shimin Hospital, Miyazaki, JP; 2 University
of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, JP; 3 Jichi Medical University
School of Medicine, Tochigi, JP.
PO-206: Heart Failure Hospitalization in Tennessee (2006-
2008): Race, Age, and Gender Analyses
Baqar Husaini†, 1 Van Cain, 1 Pamela Hull, 1 Zahid
Samad, 1 H. Okafor, 2 Robert Levine, 2 U. Sampson. 3
1 Tennessee State University, US; 2 Meharry Medical
College, Nashville, TN, US; 3 Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN, US.
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