2011 ASH Program Book - American Society of Hypertension
2011 ASH Program Book - American Society of Hypertension
2011 ASH Program Book - American Society of Hypertension
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MAY 24<br />
Sessions<br />
Tuesday Morning<br />
8:15 AM – 9:30 AM • West Ballroom • Third Floor<br />
Late-Breaking Clinical Trials<br />
Co-Chairs: George L. Bakris, MD, F<strong>ASH</strong>, Chicago, IL and<br />
William B. White, MD, F<strong>ASH</strong>, Farmington, CT<br />
8:15 AM LB-OR-01: Evaluation <strong>of</strong> Cardiovascular Effects in<br />
Three Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Clinical<br />
Trials with Controlled-Release Phentermine/<br />
Topiramate<br />
Suzanne Oparil†, 1 Wesley Day, 2 Charles Bowden. 2<br />
1 University <strong>of</strong> Alabama, Birmingham, AL, US; 2 Vivus,<br />
Mountain View, CA, US.<br />
8:30 AM LB-OR-02: Longterm (3 – 5 Months) Spaceflight<br />
Promotes a Sustained Decrease in Blood Pressure<br />
and Systemic Vascular Resistance in Astronauts<br />
Peter Norsk, 1 Ali Asmar, 1 Niels Juel Christensen. 2<br />
1 University <strong>of</strong> Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK; 2 Herlev<br />
University Hospital, Herlev, DK.<br />
8:45 AM LB-OR-03: Azilsartan Medoxomil Plus<br />
Chlorthalidone Reduces BP More Effectively<br />
Than Olmesartan Plus HCTZ in Stage 2 Systolic<br />
<strong>Hypertension</strong><br />
William C. Cushman†, 1 George Bakris, 2 William B.<br />
White, 3 Michael Weber, 4 Domenic Sica, 5 Andrew<br />
Roberts, 6 Eric Lloyd, 6 Stuart Kupfer. 6 1 University <strong>of</strong><br />
TN College <strong>of</strong> Medicine, US; 2 U <strong>of</strong> Chicago Pritzker<br />
School <strong>of</strong> Medicine, US; 3 U <strong>of</strong> CT School <strong>of</strong> Medicine,<br />
US; 4 New York, NY, US; 5 VA Commonwealth U Health<br />
System, US; 6 Takeda Global Research & Development,<br />
US.<br />
9:00 AM LB-OR-04: Common Blood Pressure Genetic<br />
Variants and Their Relations to <strong>Hypertension</strong>,<br />
Target-Organ Damage, and Cardiovascular Disease<br />
Risk: The International Collaboration for Blood<br />
Pressure Genome-Wide Association Studies (ICBP)<br />
Georg Ehret, 1 Patricia Munroe, 4 Christopher Newton-<br />
Cheh, 5 Kenneth Rice, 3 Cornelia van Duin, 6 Aravinda<br />
Chakravarti, 1 Daniel Levy, 2 Mark Caulfield, 4 Toby<br />
Johnson. 4 1 Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, US;<br />
2 NHLBI, Framingham, MA, US; 3 University <strong>of</strong><br />
Washington, Seattle, WA, US; 4 London School <strong>of</strong><br />
Medicine, London, GB; 5 Broad Institute, Cambridge,<br />
MA, US; 6 The Rotterdam Study, Rotterdam, NL.<br />
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