Editor-in-Chief:

Prof. Kazuomi Kario
Jichi Medical University School of Medicine
Japan

Editorial Advisory Board:

L. Alcocer (University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico)
C.E. Alpers (Univ. Washington, Med. Ctr. Dept. Pathology, Seattle, WA, USA)
E. Ambrosioni (Univ. Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
L.F. Arnolda (Royal Perth Hosp., Perth, Australia)
A. Aviv (Univ. Med. & Dent. New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA)
A. Avolio (Univ. New S Wales, Sydney, Australia)
G.L. Bakris (Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes Med. Ctr., Chicago, IL, USA)
M. Barton (Univ. Zurich Hosp., Zurich, Switzerland)
K.E. Bernstein (Emory Univ., Atlanta, GA, USA)
H.R. Black (Rush Univ., Chicago, IL, USA)
M.D. Blaufox (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA)
K.B. Brosnihan (Wake Forest Univ., Winston Salem, NC, USA)
M. Burnier (CHU Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland)
L.M. Burrell (The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
V.M. Campese (Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
R.M. Carey (Univ. Virginia Hlth. Ctr., Charlottesville, VA, USA)
M.H. Carvalho (University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
M.W. Chapleau (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA)
A. Coca (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
M.E. Cooper (Baker Heart Res. Inst., Melbourne, Australia)
P. Corvol (College de France, Paris, France)
D. Cusi (Univ. Milan, Milan, Italy)
B. Dahlof (Sahlgrenska Univ. Hosp. Ostra, Gothenburg, Sweden)
A.Y. Deng (University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada)
D.I. Diz (Wake Forest Univ., Winston Salem, NC, USA)
A.F. Dominiczak (Gardiner Institute, Glasgow, UK)
P.A. Doris (Univ. Texas, Houston, TX, USA)
B.M. Egan (Med. Univ. S. Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA)
A.U. Ferrari (Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy)
J.M. Flack (Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI, USA)
S.S. Franklin (Univ. Calif. Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA)
T. Fujita (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan)
H. Gavras (Boston University, Boston, MA, USA)
P. Gohlke (University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany)
J.P. Granger (Univ. Mississippi, Jackson, MS, USA)
G. Grassi (Univ. Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy)
K.W. Gross (Roswell Pk. Canc. Inst., Buffalo, NY, USA)
W.G. Haynes (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA)
A.M. Heagerty (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK)
M.H. Humphreys (Univ. of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA)
J.D. Imig (Med. Coll. Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA)
E.W. Inscho (Med. Coll. Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA)
G.D. James (Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, USA)
J. Jordan (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
P.A. Jose (Georgetown Univ., Washington, DC, USA)
Y. Kawano (National Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Japan)
A. Kurtz (Univ. Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany)
D.T. Lackland (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA)
V. Lahera (Univ. Complutense, Madrid, Spain)
P. Lijnen (University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
R.D. Manning (Univ. Mississippi, Jackson, MS, USA)
W.E. Mitch (Univ. Texas, Galveston, TX, USA)
R. Morishita (Osaka Univ., Suita, Osaka, Japan)
B.J. Morris (Univ. Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
L.G. Navar (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA)
M.G. Nicholls (UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates)
J. Nussberger (Univ. Lausanne Hosp., Lausanne, Switzerland)
S. Oparil (Univ. Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA)
P.L. Padfield (Lothian University, Edinburgh, UK)
P. Palatini (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
T.L. Pallone (Univ. Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA)
J.H. Pratt (Indiana Univ., Indianapolis, IN, USA)
M.P. Printz (Univ. Calif., La Jolla, CA, USA)
G. Remuzzi (Mario Negri Inst., Bergamo, Italy)
L.C. Rump (Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany)
T. Saruta (Keio Univ., Tokyo, Japan)
R.E. Schmieder (Dpt. Nephrology and Hypertension, University Hospital, Erlangen, Germany)
D.A. Sica (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA)
C.D. Sigmund (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA)
A. Simon (Hospital Broussais, Paris, France)
H.M. Siragy (Univ. Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA)
J.A. Staessen (Univ. Louvain, Louvain, Belgium)
D.E. Stec (Univ. Mississippi, Jackson, MS, USA)
A. Stella (Univ. Studi Milano Bicocca, Monza, Italy)
C.T. Stier (New York Med. Coll., Valhalla, NY, USA)
A.F. Sved (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
S. Taddei (University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
J. Tremblay (University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada)
M. Volpe (Univ. Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
B. Waeber (Univ. Lausanne Hosp., Lausanne, Switzerland)
D.H. Wang (Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA)
S.W. Watts (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA)
R.C. Webb (Med. Coll. Georgia, Augusta, GA, USA)
A. Zanchetti (Osped Maggiore Ctr., Milan, Italy)
I.H. Zucker (Univ. Nebraska, Omaha, NE, USA)