The Inter-American Society of Hypertension (IASH) is a non-profit organization devoted to the understanding, prevention, and control of hypertension and vascular diseases with emphasis on bridging basic, translational, and clinical research across the Americas.
Membership is extended to scientists, physicians, and health care providers from 20 different countries in the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Anyone interested in the field of hypertension, cardiometabolic risk factors, and cardiovascular diseases is welcome to join the society.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and the resulting coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have afflicted tens of millions of people fe and effective vaccines are needed urgently.
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The appointment of Dr. Manuel Velasco, editor-in-chief of the Caracas Medical Gazette, as governor for Venezuela of the Inter-American Hypertension Society, prompts him to take on new challenges, among others […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had very important negative health, psychological, social and economic repercussions for individuals, families, communities, countries and for humanity in general. […]
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World Hypertension Day promotes its theme Measure Your Blood Pressure, Control It, Live Longer! With the main goal of increasing accuracy of high blood pressure measurement […]
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Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), a specific high-affinity angiotensin II-hydrolytic enzyme, is the vector that facilitates cellular entry of SARS-CoV-1 and the novel SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. SARS-CoV-2, which crossed species barriers to infect humans […]
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A collective century of discoveries establishes the importance of the renin angiotensin aldosterone systemin maintaining blood pressure, fluid volume and electrolyte homeostasis via autocrine […]
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Initial exam, different courses in video format, live webinars. Courses, discussion forum, chat with IASH and with medical colleagues.
IASH will provide certifications to all doctors who successfully complete the final exams of the courses taken on the E-Learning platform.
This section was developed for people with hypertension or their relatives, to obtain information on the pathology.
We will be publishing didactic information on care, prevention and general advice regularly so that you can download it to your computer, tablet or cell phone.
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