Scientific topics will include

  • Pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease (CVD)
  • Risk factors and comorbidities: age, sex, and metabolic factors in CVD
  • Hypertension, remodeling, hypertrophy, ischemic heart disease, heart failure
  • Cardiomyopathies
  • Cardiac arrhythmias
  • Sudden cardiac death, mechanisms of cell survival and death
  • Endothelial dysfunction, vascular physiology and pathophysiology
  • Myocardial adaptation, novel targets of cardioprotection
  • Genetic aspects of CVD
  • Extracellular vesicles and non-coding RNAs in CVD and cardioprotection
  • Combination therapy, antioxidants, nutrients in management of CVD