The Hypertension Excellence Centre programme of the European Society of Hypertension - current status, activities and reshaping for the future

Thomas Weber; Michael Doumas; Christian Delles; Bojan Jelakovic; Margus Viigimaa; Krzysztof Narkiewicz; Andrzej Januszewicz; Reinhold Kreutz; Guido Grassi; Giuseppe Mancia

doi:10.1080/08037051.2023.2269431

The Hypertension Excellence Centre programme of the European Society of Hypertension - current status, activities and reshaping for the future

Blood Press. 2023 Dec;32(1):2269431. doi: 10.1080/08037051.2023.2269431. Epub 2023 Oct 14.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Cardiology Department, Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen, Wels, Austria.
² 2nd Prop Dpt of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.
³ School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.
⁴ School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, University Hospital Center Zagreb, Department of Nephrology, Hypertension, Dialysis and Transplantation, Zagreb, Croatia.
⁵ North Estonia Medical Centre, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia.
⁶ Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland.
⁷ Department of Hypertension, National Institute of Cardiology, Warsaw, Poland.
⁸ Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Berlin, Germany.
⁹ Clinica Medica, University Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
¹⁰ Università degli Studi Milano -Bicocca, Milano, Italy.

PMID: 37837345
DOI: 10.1080/08037051.2023.2269431

Abstract

Purpose: To describe the history of the Excellence Centre (EC) programme of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) since the beginning in 2006, its achievements, and its future developments.

Materials and methods: We list the number of ECs per country, the research projects performed so far, and the organisational steps needed to reshape the EC programme for the future.

Results: In August 2023, the ESH EC programme includes 118 registered ECs in 21 European and 7 non-European countries. Updates about the formal steps for application, re-application, transfer of EC and retirement of EC heads are given.

Conclusions: The EC programme of the ESH has been a success from the beginning. Further refinements will make it fit for the next decades.

Keywords: European Society of Hypertension; Excellence centre; Hypertension; Research.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Humans
Hypertension* / therapy