Exercise, Sports and Hypertension

1 Hemodynamics of exercise testing and sports activities.- 2 Veronique Cornelissen: effect of physical activity on BP and prevention of hypertension.- 3 Effect of regular exercise on autonomic nervous system activity.- 4 Effect of physical activity on endothelial function.- 5 Exercise and microcirdulation in hypertension.- 6 Effect of regular physical activity on Arterial Distensibility.- 7 Physiological versus pathological LVH in the hypertensive athlete.- 8 Atrial fibrillation and Sport; A challenging problem?.- 9 The Metabolic Syndrome: effect of physical activity on arterial elasticity.- 10 Effect of exercise training on clinical outcomes in patients with diabetes.- 11 Effects of exercise in hypertension of youth.- 12 The beneficial role of exercise training in the elderly with hypertension.- 13 Exercise for systemic and pulmonary hypertension: killing two birds with one stone.- 14 High altitude and blood pressure: clinical implications.- 15 Treatment of the hypertensive athlete.

 

Professor Palatini received his medical education at the University of Padua, Italy. He worked for 5 years in the Laboratory of Professor Stevo Julius at the University of Michigan (USA), where he received the local Honour. In 2009, he was appointed as Lecturer of the year  by the Belgian Hypertension Society;  in the same year, he was appointed as a lecturer by the Indian Society of Cardiology and delivered lectures in six Indian towns. He received the Alberto Zanchetti Award of the ESH in 2021.Coordinator of several international and national studies of hypertension and of clinical pharmacology, he serves on  the Editorial Board of several International Journals, including Hypertension and the Journal of Hypertension. Prof. Palatini published over 500 original articles and reviews in international journals for a global IF>2600.



 Enrico Agabiti-Rosei  is Professor Emeritus at Universityof 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