The Mission of KSH
Hypertension control and prevention of hypertension related diseases through research, education, communication and leadership
Scientific Activities
The Korean Society of Hypertension has continued to expand its scientific capability and has set up several working
groups in strategic research domains. Each working group has a separate budget plan under the support of KSH and its
own yearly scientific program including international activities. For academic congresses, the working groups manage
the scientific programs of their specific interest during sessions assigned to each working group. The working groups will
also undoubtedly meet your expectations for ISH 2016. Our working groups are as follows
- Working group on basic hypertension research
- Working group on epidemiology
- Working group on pediatric hypertension
- Working group on metabolic syndrome
- Working group on blood pressure monitoring
- Working group on hypertension Complication
- Working group on resistant hypertension
- Working group on hypertensive cerebrovascular diseases
Academic and Educational Activities
Today, KSH has become the center of not only clinical research but also basic research, epidemiology, and preventive
medicine. Since the inaugural conference of the Korean Society of Hypertension in November 1994, conferences and
research training and lecture sessions have been held twice a year, with a total of 16 conferences and 12 lectures leading
up to the Spring Meeting in May 2007. The members also realized that it was very important to motivate primary care
physicians for hypertension control. As a result, KSH set up a continued medical education program dedicated to
hypertension control, which comprises tours to cities all over the nation by devoted members of KSH. As a result, from
2001 to 2007, 3,550 practitioners received training through the Society's 41 educational sessions.
Publications
- Clinical Hypertension is the official journal of the Korean Society of Hypertension. The journal, formerly entitled Journal
of the Korean Society of Hypertension was founded in 1995 and re-launched as an open-access publication in 2014.
- It covers a wide range of original research related to hypertension as well as reviews. KSH also published the Guideline
for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertension in Korean in 2000 and 2004, which conforms with the ISH and JNC
guidelines on the one hand and reflects Korean societal particularities on the other. In 2007, the working group on blood
pressure monitoring published a Guideline for Blood Pressure Monitoring to meet the increasing needs of both
practitioners and patients.
- In the end of 2014, the Korean Society of Hypertension published Guidelines of Hypertension Treatment for Koreans.
Public Activities
In addition to their professional roles, key members of the Society reached a consensus that drawing public attention on
hypertension couldn't be emphasized enough in order to improve public health. As a hypertension campaign for the new
millennium, the KSH declared the first week of December as "Hypertension Awareness Week" in 2001.
Since then, KSH has been contributing to promoting the Korean people's health through diverse programs aiming to
educate the general public on hypertension. Free consultations and open lectures in association with university hospitals
are offered nationwide, celebrities are chosen as spokespersons to promote the campaign, and related information, from
caring for the disease to daily rules and tips, are provided to the general public through its website
(www.koreanhypertension.org).
KSH's efforts to prevent hypertension and related diseases and to raise the awareness of the general public on the
disease are not limited to the annual Hypertension Awareness Week campaign. Its on-going public health activities
comprise lectures and consultations, including a health guideline which was disseminated to the general public with
information on various treatments for hypertension and easy measures that can be taken to prevent hypertension and
related diseases