The 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting of The Japan Society of Hypertension was held at Otsu Prince Hotel, Otsu, Shiga pref. through October 1 to October 3, 2009. Assistant Professor Masahiro Kikuya at Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University was awarded Young Investor’s Award. The reason to be awarded is his presentation, “Day-by-Day Variability of Blood Pressure and Heart Rate at Home as a Novel Predictor of Prognosis: the Ohasama Study.” The research has been conducted as a cohort study of people in Ohasama, Hanamaki, Iwate pref., and shows that prognosis worsens when day-by-day variability of blood pressure and heart rate increases.

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Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University
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