Ethnic Diversities, Hypertension and Global Cardiovascular Risk

I Ethnicity in the european context.- 1. Multi-ethnic populations in Europe; terminology and classifications.- 2. Migration, communicable and non-communicable diseases. Are we witnessing a paradigm shift?.- 3. Inequalities and health policies in the European countries.- II Ethnic disparities in cardiovascular disease.- 4. Ethnic disparities in stroke.- 5. Intracranial atherosclerosis in Asian populations.- 6. Coronary heart disease among non-Western immigrants.- 7. Hypertension and the Heart in Africa.- 8. Ethnicity and hypertension-related target organ damage.- 9. Chronic kidney disease: global dimension and perspectives for Africa.- 10. Ethnicity and atrial fibrillation: a counterintuitive phenomenon.- III Drivers predisposing ethnic minorities to cardiovascular disease.- 11. Disparities in Hypertension in the ethnic minority groups; beneficial aspects of minority ethnic group cultures.- 12. Type 2 diabetes in ethnic minority groups in Europe.- 13. Health needs and global cardiovascular risk of Chinese migrants in Europe: which peculiarities?.- 14. Overweight and obesity in ethnic minorities. Ethnic specific cut-off values of obesity indices.- IV Ethnic specific issues for prevention and treatment of hypertension and global cv risk.- 15. New notions on Salt Sensitivity .- 16. Body Image perception in ethnic minorities: implications for prevention.- 17. Risk assessment of future type 2 diabetes and prevention strategies.- 18. Screening strategies for type 2 diabetes and risk stratification in minority groups.- 19. Cardiovascular risk assessment models and ethnicity: implications for hypertension guidelines.- 20. Antihypertensive drug therapy in patients of African and South Asian ethnicity.- 21. Cardiovascular risk factors in migrants: beyond the first generation.- 22. Hypertension in pregnancy and related health outcomes in European ethnic minorities.- 23. Ethnic differences in left ventricular remodelling in athletes: implications for pre-participation visit.

Pietro Amedeo Modesti received his degree in medicine from the University of Florence, where he also trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, prior to completing his studies abroad. He has been an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine since 2000, and is currently responsible for the Internal Medicine courses at the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Engineering at the University of Florence, as well as in several resident schools, and coordinator of a Master course on "Immigration management". Further, he serves on the editorial boards of several prestigious international journals. His clinical and research activities largely focuses on internal medicine, especially the pathophysiology, clinical aspects and prevention of cardiovascular diseases as well as the determinants of cardiovascular risk factors among ethnic groups, and in low- and middle income countries. He coordinated interventions in Yemen (HYDY, on behalf of the Ministero Affari Esteri), Libya (on behalf ofthe National Research Council of Libya), and Eritrea (founder of the College of Health Sciences in Asmara). He is the author of several works published in the most renowned international journals (Lancet, Circulation, American Journal of Physiology, and Hypertension).

Francesco Cappuccio is a cardiovascular physician, clinical epidemiologist and public health expert. After completing his medical degree in Naples, he moved to London, where he trained at Charing Cross Hospital, St. George's Hospital Medical School and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In 2000 he became a Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & Primary Care at St George's Hospital Medical School. He moved to Warwick in July 2005 to take up the newly established Cephalon Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine & Epidemiology. He is also Consultant Physician at the University Hospitals in Coventry where he heads the European Society of Hypertension Center of Excellence.  He is Fellow of