Exercise, Sports and Hypertension / Updates in Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection (PDF)

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Enrico Agabiti-Rosei is Professor Emeritus at University of Brescia, Italy, where he was the Director of the Medical Clinic, and Chairman of both the Hospital Clinical Department of Medicine, and the University Department of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, until the end of 2017. He has been also the Director of the post-graduate School of Internal Medicine. He specialized in Cardiology and Internal Medicine at the University of Pisa and spent few years abroad in prestigious international research centers as Research Fellow or visiting Professor: in Glasgow, GB, at the BP Unit, in Basel, Switzerland, at Kantonsspital, in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Cleveland Clinic. He has received the Peter Sleight Award of the ESH in 2011. Among others, he was Member of the Task Force appointed to write the 2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for Hypertension. Prof. Agabiti Rosei was Chairman of the WG on Hypertension and the Heart of the ESC and of the ESH, and was also President of the Italian Society of Hypertension (2005-2007) and of the European Society of Hypertension (2015-2017).



Giuseppe Mancia is Emeritus Professor of the University of Milano-Bicocca. He served as Full Professor of Medicine and Director of the Department of Medicine at the San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy. He is President of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) Foundation and Chairman of the ESH Educational Committee. He has been President of ESH, the International Society of Hypertension, the Italian Society of Hypertension and the European Society of Clinical Investigation. He has received numerous international Awards and Degrees Honoris Causa for his research on hypertension and cardiovascular diseases and has chaired the Task Force of the European Hypertension Guidelines since 2003. He is an highly cited investigator.