Introduction to the American Heart Association's Hypertension Strategically Focused Research Network

Paul Muntner¹, Richard C Becker², David Calhoun²+22

• ¹From the Department of Epidemiology (P.M., S.J.T.), and Divisions of Preventive Medicine (M.M.S.), Nephrology (D.C., J.S.P.), and Cardiology (D.C.), Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Department of Physiology (M.L., A.W.C., D.L.M., Y.L.), and Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine (T.K., S.K.), Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Departments of Pharmacology (C.D.S., J.L.G., A.N.), Health and Human Physiology (G.L.P.), and Obstetrics and Gynecology (K.K.L., M.K.S.), University of Iowa, Iowa City; Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital, OH (E.U., M.M., B.M.); Department of Medicine, University of Cincinnati, OH (R.C.B.); Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Seattle Children's Hospital, WA (J.T.F.); American Heart Association, Dallas, TX (A.L.); and Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (D.T.L.). pmuntner@uab.edu.+1