Preliminary Program
07:00-16:00
Registration
08:00-09:00
Workshop
What the Nephrologist Needs to Know and What the Cardiologist Can Provide
Carissa Baker Smith, USA | Elaine Urbina, USA
09:00-09:15
Coffee Break, Exhibition Visit & Poster Viewing
09:15-09:30
Congress Opening and Welcome
Tomáš Seeman, Czech Republic | Mieczysław Litwin, Poland
09:30-10:30
Session I: Early Vascular Aging
(09:30-09:50) Early Vascular Aging in Hypertensive Adolescents, Personal View
Mieczysław Litwin, Poland
(09:50-10:10) Early Vascular aging consortium results
Elaine Urbina, USA
(10:10-10:30) (Pre-recorded) Early life origins of Early Vascular Aging and Cardiovascular Disease
Peter Nilsson, Sweden
10:30-11:30
Session II: Epidemiology
(10:30-10:50) Prevalence, trends: Differences around the world
Rahul Chanchlani, Canada
(10:50-11:10) New EU reference values
Elke Wühl, Germany
(11:10-11:30) New US reference values – use of EHR (Electronic Health Record)
Mark Mitsnefes, USA
11:30-12:00
Coffee Break, Exhibition Visit & Poster Viewing
12:00-13:00
Session III: Pathophysiology
(12:00-12:20) Primary – Adverse Childhood Experiences
Daniel Feig, USA
(12:20-12:40) Primary – Genomics of Hypertension – The road to precision medicine
Sandosh Padmanabhan, UK
(12:40-13:00) APOL1, hypertension and CKD – unique to the African diaspora
Brian Rayner, South Africa
13:00-14:00
Lunch Break, Exhibition Visit, Poster Viewing
(13:30-14:00) E-Poster Session 1
(13:30-13:35) Real-World Management of Pediatric Hypertension: Evidence From National Healthcare Claims Data
Jana Preclíková, Czech Republic
(13:35-13:40) Impact Of Blood Pressure And Body Mass Index On Left Ventricular Structure And Function In Adolescents
Rina Rus, Slovenia
(13:40-13:45) Sex Differences In Children And Adolescents With Hypertension
Maksymilian Sikorski, Poland (TBC)
(13:45-13:50) Etiology and Comorbidity of Hypertension in Preteen Children
Sonja Golob Jančič, Slovenia
(13:50-13:55) Monocyte-to-Neutrophil Ratio as an Immunological Marker of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Children with Primary Hypertension
Piotr Skrzypczyk, Poland
(13 :55-14:00) High blood pressure associated with Sturge-Weber syndrome
Ana Cristina Aguilar-Rodríguez, Spain (TBC)
14:00-15:00
Session IV: Measurement of BP
(14:00-14:20) (Pre-recorded) Validation of BP devices in Peds (electronic etc)
Stella Stabouli, Greece
(14:20-14:40) ABPM (Methodology)
Elke Wuhl, Germany
(14:40-15:00) HBP – Update and references
Tomas Seeman, Czech Republic
15:00-15:30
Coffee Break
(15:20-15:30) E-Poster Session 2
(15:20-15:25) Blood Pressure Variability and Low-Grade Inflammation in Pediatric Patients with Primary Hypertension
Piotr Skrzypczyk, Poland
(15:25-15:30) White Coat Hypertension in Children: A 15-Year Experience from a Single Centre
Martina Filipič, Slovenia
15:30-17:00
Session V: Primary HT
(15:30-15:50) Pathophysiology of hypertension in obesity
Mark Mitsnefes, USA
(15:50-16:10) Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome
Tammy Brady, USA
(16:10-16:38) ORAL PRESENTATIONS
(16:10-16:17) Population-Specific Oscillometric Office Blood Pressure Reference Values for Danish Children: Reducing the Risk of Misclassification
Lise Fischer Mikkelsen, Denmark
(16:17-16:24) Perceived Discomfort During Office Blood Pressure Measurement in Children and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Study
Lise Fischer Mikkelsen, Denmark
(16:24-16:31) Early Changes in Central Pulse Wave Morphology in Children with Chronic Kidney Disease
Louise Keehn, UK
(16:31-16:38) The Relationship Between Kidney Size and Blood Pressure Values in Children with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
Krzysztof Skoczynski, Poland (TBC)
(16:38-16:58) Hypertension mediated organ injury
Carissa Baker-Smith, USA
17:00-18:00
Welcome Reception
08:00-14:00
Registration
09:00-10:00
Session VI: Secondary HT
(09:00-09:20) HT in Renoparenchymal KD and Renoprotection
Tomas Seeman, Czech Republic
(09:20-09:40) Renovascular Hypertension in Children - Pediatric Perspective
Lukasz Obrycki, Poland
(09:40-10:00) Endocrine Causes of HTN
Jiri Widimsky, Czech Republic
10:00-11:00
Session VII: HT in Special Situations
(10:00-10:20) Hypertension in Pregnancy
Renata Cifkova, Czech Republic
(10:20-10:40) Cardiovascular Causes of Hypertension
Mieczysław Litwin, Poland & Adam Kolesnik, Poland (TBC)
(10:40-11:00) Hypertension in Diabetes Melllitus
Terezie Sulakova, Czech Republic
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break, Exhibition Visit & Poster Viewing
11:30-13:00
Session VIII: Treatment on Primary HT
(11:30-11:50) Diet in HT: Sugar, Salt / DASH diet "Dangerous White Powders:" Sugar and Salt
Daniel Feig, USA
(11:50-12:10) Treatment according to phenotype - sympathetic system activation in primary hypertension
Manish Sinha, UK
(12:10-12:30) Contraception in adolescents and hypertension
Brian Rayner, South Africa
(12:30-13:00) ORAL PRESENTATIONS TBC
(12:30-12:37) Experience with Home-Based vs. Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring Among Teens and Guardians
Goutham Rao, USA
(12:37-12:43) Microrna-16 As a Potential Indicator of Cardiac Strain Abnormalities in Children with Primary Hypertension
Michal Szyszka, Poland (TBC)
(12:43-12:50) Cardiac Remodelling as Assessed by MRI in Hypertensive Adolescents and Young Adults: a Single Centre Cross Sectional Study
Emily Haseler, UK
(12:50-12:57) Markers of endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis in hypertensive pediatric patients
Anna Wasilewska, Poland (TBC)
13:00-14:00
Lunch Break, Exhibition Visit & Poster Viewing
(13:30-14:00) E-Poster Session 3
(13:30-13:35) Arterial Hypertension Treatment Peculiarities for Children and Adolescents in Lithuania
Kamilė Čeponytė, Lithuania
(13:35-13:40) Home (HBPM) versus 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) for diagnosis of hypertension in African American adolescents
Goutham Rao, United States
(13:40-13:45) Fibromuscular Dysplasia In Children – A Single-Center Experience
Michal Szyszka, Poland (TBC)
(13:45-13:50) A complex case of renal artery stenosis in a 3-year-old patient with neurofibromatosis type 1 and secondary hypertension
Jakub Pytlos, Poland (TBC)
(13:50-13:55) Arterial Hypertension In The Czech Register Of Renal Biopsies In Children Between 1994 And 2024
Alexander Kolský, Czech Republic (TBC)
(13:55-14:00) Underestimated Hypertension in 2-years Old Girl with Adrenal Cushing Syndrome
Khrystyna Slivinska-Kurchak, Ukraine
14:00-15:00
Session IX: Public Health
(14:00-14:20) Social Determinants of Hypertension and its Control
Carissa Baker-Smith, USA
(14:20-14:40) Effects of New Adult Guidelines EU and USA on Public Health
Joseph Flynn, USA
(14:40-15:01) ORAL PRESENTATIONS
(14:40-14:47) Feasibility of Community Pharmacy–Based Blood Pressure Screening for Adolescents: A Canadian Pilot Study
Stephanie Gysel (TBC)
(14:47-14:54) Global research priority-setting exercise on the measurement, diagnosis and management of hypertension in adolescence
Prerna Banati (TBC)
(14:54-15:01) ALERT-BP: Machine Learning for Early Detection of Pediatric Hypertension Across Canadian Cohorts
Rahul Chanchlani, Canada
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee Break, Exhibition Visit & Poster Viewing
15:30-16:24
Session X: Transition
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
(15:30-15:37) Cardiovascular Determinants of Blood Pressure at Age 10 years: a Generation R Study
Emily Haseler, UK (TBC)
(15:37-15:44) Childhood Hypertension and Risk of Long-Term Morbidity and Mortality: A Nationwide Danish Cohort Study
Lise Fischer Mikkelsen, Denmark
(15:44-16:04) Transition (Pediatric - Title tbc)
Arvind Nagra, UK
(16:04-16:24) Transition (Adult - title tbc)
Paul Harden, UK
16:24-16:54
E-Poster Session 4
(16:24-16:29) Pseudo - resistant hypertension in a 17-year-old female patient with Munchausen syndrome
Anna Maria Wabik, Poland (TBC)
(16 29-16:34) Subclinical inflammation and arterial damage in children with primary hypertension and white coat hypertension –
Adam Bujanowicz, Poland (TBC)
(16:34-16:39) Hyponatremic-hypertensive syndrome as a rare manifestation of renovascular hypertension - a case series
Adam Bujanowicz, Poland (TBC)
(16:39-16:44) Distribution of 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure in South Asian Children Living in Canada: Preliminary Findings from the ASHA Study
Shlok Panchal, Canada (TBC)
(16:44-16:49) Development of a Co-Delivery System for an Angiotensin II Blocker and Antioxidant in Hypertension
Priyadarshini Banerjee, India (TBC)
(16:49-16:54) Correlation between essential hypertension in children and Intima media thickness measurement in
Bianca Elena Popovici, Romania (TBC)
16:55
End of Day 2
08:00-11:45
Registration
09:00-10:00
Session XI: Research in HT
(09:00-09:30) What’s new in hypertension research over past 12-24 months
Joseph Flynn, USA
(09:30-10:00) New Hypertension Research Projects
Ruan Kruger, South Africa
10:00-10:30
Coffee Break. Exhibition Visit & E-Poster Viewing
10:30-11:30
Session: XII: Complex Cases
(10:30-10:35) Severe Reno-Vascular Hypertension with Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in an Infant with a Smad3 Mutation
Jan Koziej, Poland (TBC)
(10:35-10:45) Discussion
(10:45-10:50) Beyond the OAice: Home Blood Pressure Monitoring Identified Severe Renovascular Hypertension in a Two-Year-Old Boy
Jana Preclíková, Czech Republic
(10:50-11:00) Discussion
(11:00-11:05) Surgical and Endovascular Management of renal artery stenosis in a solitary functioning kidney in Alagille Syndrome
Sajini Herath, UK
(11:05-11:15) Discussion
(11:15-11:20) An Interesting Case of Hypertension in a Young Adolescent
Cheentan Singh, UK (TBC)
(11:20-11:30) Discussion
11:30-11:45
Congress Closing Remarks
Tomáš Seeman, Czech Republic | Mieczysław Litwin, Poland