Hypertension in Diabetes

Call for Papers

Hypertension and diabetes are common disease in clinical practice and frequently coexist together. The association has important adverse additive effects on cardiovascular risk profile, being responsible for the elevated number of fatal and nonfatal cardiovascular complications seen in the hypertensive patients. Despite the knowledge of the above-mentioned deleterious effects, the clinical approach to diabetes-related hypertension remains largely unsatisfactory. This is the case for the diagnosis of complications and assessment of the overall cardiovascular risk. This is also the case for the therapeutic approach to the disease itself, taking into account that therapeutic targets of blood pressure and glucose values recommended by guidelines still remain largely unmet in current clinical practice.

The present issue is aimed at providing an up-to-date state of the art information on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutic aspects of the combined disease, and this will be done by discussing the most recent findings in the field and the related recommendations by international guidelines on how to diagnose and manage diabetes-related hypertension. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Pathophysiology of hypertension in diabetes
• Effects of insulin and insulin resistance on blood pressure
• Circadian blood pressure profile in diabetes
• Obesity, metabolic syndrome, and cardiometabolic risk
• Target organ damage: cardiac and vascular dysfunction
• Target organ damage: renal dysfunction
• Blood pressure and microvascular complications
• How to optimize nephroprotection in diabetes
• How to optimize cardiovascular protection in diabetes
• Clinical trials in hypertension and diabetes
• Antihypertensive treatment in diabetes and guidelines
• Why compliance to antihypertensive treatment is so low
• Which blood pressure targets can be achieved in current practice?

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/edr/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Giuseppe Mancia, Internal Medicine, University of Milano Bicocca, Ospedale S Gerardo, Monza, Italy

Guest Editors

• Guido Grassi, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Milano Bicocca, Ospedale S Gerardo, Monza, Italy
• Peter Nillson, Department of Clinical Sciences Medicine, Malmo University Hospital, Malmo, Sweden
• Joseph Redon, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain