Editorial Board

An Official Journal of the American Heart Association
Representing the Council for High Blood Pressure Research,
the Council on Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease, and in
cooperation with the Inter-American Society of Hypertension

Editor-in-Chief
John E. Hall

Associate Editors
Nancy J. Brown
Celso E. Gomez-Sanchez
Joey P. Granger
Friedrich C. Luft
Richard J. Roman
Ernesto L. Schiffrin
Jan A. Staessen

CME Editor
Norman M. Kaplan

Consulting Editors
Lawrence J. Appel
Gerald F. DiBona
Victor J. Dzau
Edward D. Frohlich
Toshiro Fujita
David R. Harder
Daniel W. Jones
Allyn L. Mark
Alberto Nasjletti
Suzanne Oparil
Jeff M. Sands

Illustrations Consultant
Michael P. Schenk

Editorial Office
Gerry McAlpin, Managing Editor

Editorial Board

Rajiv Agarwal, Indianapolis, IN Barbara T. Alexander, Jackson, MS Lawrence J. Appel, Baltimore, MD William J. Arendshorst, Chapel Hill, NC Alberto P. Avolio, Sydney, Australia Michael Bader, Berlin, Germany George L. Bakris, Chicago, IL John C. Barbato, Cleveland, OH Jacques D. Barth, Santa Monica, CA Matthias Barton, Zurich, Switzerland Chris Baylis, Morgantown, WV William H. Beierwaltes, Detroit, MI Jonathan N. Bella, Bronx, NY Athanose Benetos, Nancy, France Italo Biaggioni, Nashville, TN Giuseppe Bianchi, Milan, Italy George W. Booz, Jackson, MS Pierre Boutouyrie, Paris, France Ralf P. Brandes, Frankfurt, Germany Michael W. Brands, Augusta, GA Josephine P. Briggs, Bethesda, MD Virginia L. Brooks, Portland, OR K. Bridget Brosnihan, Winston-Salem, NC Nancy J. Brown, Nashville, TN Hans R. Brunner, Lausanne, Switzerland Michel Burnier, Lausanne, Switzerland Michael Bursztyn,Jerusalem, Israel Andreas Busjahn, Berlin, Germany Victoria M. Cachofeiro, Madrid, Spain David A. Calhoun, Birmingham, AL James D. Cameron, Clayton, Australia William B. Campbell, Milwaukee, WI Vito M. Campese, Los Angeles, CA Robert M. Carey, Charlottesville, VA Pamela K. Carmines, Omaha, NE Barry L. Carter, Iowa City, IA Mark W. Chapleau, Iowa City, IA Mark C. Chappell, Winston-Salem, NC John R. Cockcroft,Cardiff, UK Pierre L. Corvol, Paris, France Allen W. Cowley, Jr, Milwaukee, WI J. Thomas Cunningham, San Antonio, TX A. H. Jan Danser, Rotterdam, Netherlands Robin L. Davisson, Iowa City, IA Kevin P. Davy, Blacksburg, VA Ralf Dechend, Berlin, Germany Peter W. de Leeuw, Maastricht, Netherlands Alan Y. Deng, Montreal, Canada Christian F. Deschepper, Montreal, Canada Giovanni de Simone,Naples, Italy Sean P. Didion,Iowa City, IA Javier Diez, Pamplona, Spain Donald J. DiPette, East Lansing, MI Debra L. Diz, Winston-Salem, NC Anna F. Dominiczak, Glasgow, UK Peter A. Doris, Houston, TX Daniel Duprez, Minneapolis, MN Brent M. Egan, Charleston, SC Kensuke Egashira, Fukuoka, Japan Satoru Eguchi, Philadelphia, PA Fernando Elijovich, New York, NY Robert H. Fagard, Leuven, Belgium Bonita Falkner, Philadelphia, PA Frank M. Faraci, Iowa City, IA Gregory D. Fink, East Lansing, MI John M. Flack, Detroit, MI John S. Floras, Toronto, Canada Paul W. Franks,Umea, Sweden Flávio D. Fuchs, Porto Alegre, Brazil John W. Funder, Clayton, Australia Jeffrey L. Garvin, Detroit, MI Haralambos P. Gavras, Boston, MA Irene M. Gavras, Boston, MA Stephen P. Glasser,Birmingham, AL Elise P. Gomez-Sanchez, Jackson, MS Kristof Graf, Berlin, Germany Guido Grassi, Milan, Italy Kathy K. Griendling, Atlanta, GA Karen A. Griffin, Maywood, IL Kenneth W. Gross, Buffalo, NY L. Lee Hamm, New Orleans, LA Stephen B. Harrap, Melbourne, Australia David G. Harrison, Atlanta, GA Gregory A. Harshfield, Augusta, GA Daniel Hayoz, Lausanne, Switzerland Joseph R. Haywood, East Lansing, MI Anthony M. Heagerty, Manchester, UK Robert L. Hester,Jackson, MS Yoshitaka Hirooka, Fukuoka, Japan Masatsugu Horiuchi, Ehime, Japan Norbert Hubner, Berlin, Germany Michael H. Humphreys, San Francisco, CA Steven C. Hunt, Salt Lake City, UT John D. Imig, Augusta, GA Edward W. Inscho, Augusta, GA Edwin K. Jackson, Pittsburgh, PA Richard J. Johnson, Houston, TX Jens Jordan, Berlin, Germany Pedro A. Jose, Washington, DC Michael J. Joyner, Rochester, MN Kazuomi Kario, Tochigi, Japan

S. Ananth Karumanchi, Boston, MA Henry L. Keen, Iowa City, IA Mark A. Knepper, Bethesda, MD Hans Knoblauch, Berlin, Germany Theodore A. Kotchen, Milwaukee, WI Lawrence R. Krakoff, Englewood, NJ Armin Kurtz, Regensburg, Germany Theodore W. Kurtz, San Francisco, CA Daniel T. Lackland, Charleston, SC Margot C. LaPointe, Detroit, MI Stephane Laurent, Paris, France Bernard I. Levy, Paris, France Yan Li, Shanghai, China Gregory Y.H. Lip, Birmingham, England Thomas E. Lohmeier, Jackson, MS Pamela Lucchesi, New Orleans, LA Dewan S. Majid, New Orleans, LA Giuseppe Mancia, Milan, Italy R. Davis Manning, Jr., Jackson, MS Christine Maric, Jackson, MS Barry J. Materson, Miami, FL David L. Mattson, Milwaukee, WI Jay L. Mehta, Little Rock, AR Gary F. Mitchell, Waltham, MA Ryuichi Morishita, Osaka, Japan Brian J. Morris, Sydney, Australia Dominik N. Muller, Berlin, Germany Michael J. Mulvany, Aarhus, Denmark Thomas Munzel, Hamburg, Germany L. Gabriel Navar, New Orleans, LA Georg Nickenig, Hamburg, Germany Eoin T. O’Brien,Dublin, Republic of Ireland Toshio Ogihara, Osaka, Japan Michael F. O'Rourke, Sydney, Australia J. Michael Overton, Tallahassee, FL Sandosh Padmanabhan, Glasgow, UK Paolo Palatini,Padova, Italy Julio A. Panza,Washington,DC Gianfranco Parati,Milan, Italy Paul M. Pilowsky, Sydney, Australia Bertram Pitt, Ann Arbor, MI David M. Pollock, Augusta, GA Jennifer S. Pollock, Augusta, GA J. Howard Pratt, Indianapolis, IN Russell L. Prewitt, Norfolk, VA Kamal Rahmouni,Iowa City, IA Leopoldo Raij, Miami, FL Mohan K. Raizada, Gainesville, FL Richard N. Re, New Orleans, LA Jane F. Reckelhoff, Jackson, MS Josep Redon, Valencia, Spain Timothy L. Reudelhuber, Montreal, Canada Eberhard Ritz, Heidelberg, Germany Damiano Rizzoni, Brescia, Italy James M. Roberts, Pittsburgh, PA J. Carlos Romero, Rochester, MN Clive Rosendorff, Bronx, NY Israel Rubinstein, Chicago, IL Luis M. Ruilope, Madrid, Spain Michael J. Ryan, Jackson, MS Michel Safar, Paris, France F. Javier Salazar, Murcia, Spain Kathryn Sandberg, Washington, DC Paul W. Sanders, Birmingham, AL Urs Scherrer, Lausanne, Switzerland Giuseppe Schillaci,Perugia, Italy Gary L. Schwartz, Rochester, MN Jeanne L. Seagard, Milwaukee, WI Howard D. Sesso, Boston, MA Domenic A. Sica, Richmond, VA Curt D. Sigmund, Iowa City, IA Alain Simon, Paris, France James R. Sowers, Brooklyn, NY J. David Spence, London, Canada David E. Stec, Jackson, MS Coen D. A. Stehouwer, Maastricht, Netherlands David W. Stepp,Augusta, GA William B. Strawn, Winston-Salem, NC Zhongjie Sun, Oklahoma City, OK Alan F. Sved, Pittsburgh, PA Randall L. Tackett,Athens, GA Stefano Taddei, Pisa, Italy William T. Talman, Iowa City, IA Hirofumi Tomiyama,Tokyo, Japan Rhian M. Touyz, Montreal, Canada Paolo Verdecchia, Perugia, Italy Donna H. Wang, East Lansing, MI Stephanie W. Watts, East Lansing, MI David J. Webb, Edinburgh, UK R. Clinton Webb, Augusta, GA Myron H. Weinberger, Indianapolis, IN Matthew R. Weir, Baltimore, MD William J. Welch, Washington, DC William B. White, Farmington, CT Judith A. Whitworth,Canberra, Australia Christopher S. Wilcox, Washington, DC Ian B. Wilkinson, Cambridge, UK Gunter Wolf, Jena, Germany J. Michael Wyss, Birmingham, AL Yoram Yagil, Ashkelon, Israel Irving H. Zucker, Omaha, NE

Scientific Publishing Committee
David Gutterman, Chair Milwaukee, WI
Diane Scott-Lichter, Vice Chair Philadelphia, PA
Donna K. Arnett, Birmingham, AL
John M. Canty, Jr.,Buffalo, NY
Michael T. Clarke, Chicago, IL
Kevin C. Dellsperger, Columbia, MO
Alan M. Fogelman, Los Angeles, CA
Norman Frankel, Skokie, IL
Christopher B. Granger, Durham, NC
Debra W. Lockwood, Baton Rouge, LA
Catherine Otto, Seattle, Washington
Barbara J. Riegel, Philadelphia, PA
Linda S. Williams, Indianapolis, IN