Report of the International Society of Hypertension Teaching Seminar organized by the International Society of Hypertension Africa Regional Advisory Group: Maputo, Mozambique, 2016.

Basden Onwubere Antonio Coca Albertino Damasceno Solomon Kadiri Ruan Kruger Daniel Lemogoum Jene-Rene M'Buyamba-Kabangu Ikechi Okpechi Neil Poulter Brian Rayner Yakoob K Seedat Aletta E Schutte Rhian M Touyz

J Hypertens

aDepartment of Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria bHead of the Hypertension & Vascular Risk Unit, Hospital Clinic. University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain cFaculty of Medicine, Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique dDivision of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria eHypertension in Africa Research Team, Department of Physiology, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa fService de Cardiologie, CHU Erasme808, Brussels, Belgium gHypertension Unit, Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kinshasa Hospital, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo hDivision of Nephrology and Hypertension and Department of Medicine, Groote Schuur Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa iInternational Centre for Circulatory Health, Imperial College, London, UK jDivision of Hypertension and Nephrology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa kNelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Kwa Zulu Natal Congella, Durban, South Africa lFaculty of Health Sciences: Hypertension in Africa Research Team, North-West University (NWU) Potchefstroom, South Africa mInstitute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.

Published: October 2016

The International Society of Hypertension (ISH), in fulfilment of its mission of promoting hypertension control and prevention and also of advancing knowledge globally, organizes hypertension teaching seminars or 'summer schools' worldwide through the ISH Regional Advisory Groups. In Africa, seven of such seminars have been organized. This is a report of the eighth seminar held in Maputo, Mozambique, April, 2016. The seminar was attended by over 65 participants from 11 African countries. The Faculty consisted of 11 international hypertension experts. The eighth African hypertension seminar was a great success as confirmed by a pre- and post-test questionnaire.

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