Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is a great pleasure for us to invite you to attend the 20th Scientific Meeting of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) which will take placein Oslo, Norway, June 18-21, 2010.

The scientific program will continue the tradition of the many previousESH meetings. That means that a major proportion of the program will bebased on original research with oral and poster presentations which will beselected from the large number of abstracts submitted by the participants,based on the in depth assessment by reviewers of the abstracts.The 2010 ESH meeting will also contain a broad range of clinical andexperimental research papers presented in numerous State-of-the-Artlectures, Plenary Sessions, Debates, How-To and other Teachings Sessions,Breakfast Workshops, Integrated Sessions for ESH Working Groups andSatellite Symposia. The European Society of Hypertension has in various aspects developed educational activities in cooperation with the EuropeanSociety of Cardiology, one of these being recognitions and accreditations formedical specialities. Thus, in Oslo widespread EBAC accreditation for continuousmedical education will be requested and, to follow a trend for theprevious meetings, also regarding an increasing number of the educationalsessions.

You are all cordially invited to Oslo and the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) meeting in June 2010

Prof. Sverre E. Kjeldsen