Global Call to Action to Control High Blood Pressure
The Global Call to Action to Control High Blood Pressure will urge governments, funders and the private sector to commit to four actions to increase the global hypertension control rate to 50% by 2030. Please add your name as a signatory today via the link above.
Thank you for celebrating the 20th Anniversary of World Hypertension Day!
World Hypertension Day and May Measurement Month
World Hypertension Day (WHD) will be marked on Saturday 17 May 2025, with May Measurement Month (MMM), established in 2017 by the ISH, running from 1 May to 31 July every year.
Both initiatives aim to highlight the importance of better prevention, detection and treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension).
The theme of World Hypertension Day, which was initiated by the World Hypertension League, is: Measure your Blood Pressure Accurately, Control It, Live Longer.
In addition, Salt Awareness week runs from 12 to 18 May 2025. Reducing the amount of salt in our diet is a quick and easy way to reduce our blood pressure and improve our health.
Further useful links on this subject and other important information are available on ISH website below:
https://ish-world.com/world-hypertension-day-2025
https://ish-world.com/global-hypertension-practice-guidelines
Iraqi Hypertension Society Celebrate World Hypertension Day
The Iraqi Hypertension Society is pleased to announce its full support to the World Hypertension League in its celebration on World Hypertension Day on May 17, 2025. This year the IqHS will hold some social activities and awareness campaigns in addition to having a Marathon run on May 15, 2025. More information will be released later this month. Stay in touch and don’t miss this important event.
IqHS 2025 Elections Just Ended
In a friendly and cordial atmosphere, the Iraqi Hypertension Society has completed the elections of its Board Members by the members of the General Assembly on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, in one of the halls of the Medical City. The final results resulted in the following members winning membership in the Society for the next three years. Continue Reading..
Advances in Cardiovascular Therapy: Exploring
The Iraqi Hypertension Society held a scientific meeting under the heading ” Advances in Cardiovascular Therapy: Exploring ” in the Baron Hotel, Karbala, 11. April 2025 presented by two Interventional cardiologists Dr Ahmed Qassim Alhaidari and Dr Mohammed Wehody Shuailah and moderated by Prof. Ghazi Haji and Prof. Abdulkareem Albafiyi. Continue Reading..
From Local Expertise to Global Solutions: Iraqi Hypertension Society at ESH Congress
As being part of ESH community, we are pleased to announce that the IqHS will hold its first scientific session at ESH Congress, May 23-26, 2025, Milan.
Our Society will present a scientific proposal over 45 min that will be presented by four distinguished speakers in addition to the president of the Society prof Ghazi Haji. The session will give an overview of hypertension in Iraq, including IqHS’s vision and role in controlling hypertension, as well as some of its achievements. We wish all success in this milestone step.
Uniting Discipline: A Focus on the Cardiorenal Metabolic Nexus 2025
With remarkable success, the city of Basra hosted the “Uniting Disciplines: A Focus on the Cardiorenal Metabolic Nexus” one-day forum organized by the Iraqi Hypertension Society and Iraqi Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation together with a distinguished group of local physicians and experts under one scientific platform in Grand Millennium Hotel on 17th of January 2025. The forum highlighted the vital connection between cardiology, nephrology, and metabolism, emphasizing their collective role in advancing healthcare quality and addressing the need for unifying the efforts between different specialties of cardiology, nephrology, and endocrinology to offer the best possible care for these complicated common cases that need different specialists’ opinions. Continue Reading..
Aprovasc Launch Evening Forum
With the patronage of Sanofi Pharmaceutical Company and through Shubbar bureau, the Iraqi hypertension Society with the collaboration of Iraqis Cardio thoracic Society and Iraqi Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation held a scientific forum at Dijla Village in Baghdad on the 10th of January 2025. The forum entitled Aprovasc Launch Evening. Three eminent speakers covered the agenda of the forum, Professor Gazi Haji the president of IqHS, and Dr Hussein Naser, Dr Safa Al Mukhtar, and Dr Gelal Altae who covered the subject of hypertension, its challenges, the last 2024 ESC guidelines and also the role of Irbisartan and Amlodipine combination in renal and cardiac protection. Continue reading..
Invitation Letter To: Heart Health Summit
The Iraqi Cardiothoracic Society and the Iraqi Hypertension Society held a scientific summit entitled “Invitation letter to: Heart Health” in Coral Village on Friday, December 27, 2024, under the auspices of the Al-Hayat Scientific Office. Three lectures were presented during this meeting, the first of which was given by Dr. Raed Sabry, Interventional Cardiologist, entitled “Heart Rate & Heart Failure ”, in which he discussed the relationship between heart rate and HF outcome in terms of morbidity and mortality in addition to numbers of hospitalizations with special attention to the favorable role of ivabradine in this regard. Continue Reading..
IqHS workshop during the 20th International Scientific Conference of College of Medicine, Baghdad University
he Iraqi Hypertension Society participated in the 20th International Scientific Conference of the College of Medicine, Baghdad University on the first of December 2024 in a workshop about Hypertension and blood pressure measurements presented by Prof. Ghazi Haji, IqHS president and Dr. Samer Yousaf, IqHS member. Prof Ghazi gave a short overview of hypertension and its management while Dr. Yousaf explored blood pressure and gave tips and tricks for its measurement and the pitfalls that may be encountered he also explored the different types of blood pressure devices available. The workshop was attended by many medical students and some senior doctors, and it was an interesting workshop, as admitted by the attendees.
Know your BP at Al-Qishla Headquarters
The IqHS also held a distinguished community activity at the headquarters of the former royal government in Al-Qishla on the 29th on November 2024 with the collaboration of a group of dedicated and motivated pharmacists especially the Dr Rajaa Muhammed who participated actively with prof Ghazi Haji in giving an introductory lecture about hypertension, its causes, and ways to control it for the visitors of this well-known cultural place in Baghdad. The workshop was attended and welcomed by many benefited visitors. More Photos..
Hypertension in Focus: A Multidisciplinary Approach To Care
The Iraqi Hypertension Society in collaboration with CheplaPharma held a scientific symposium on Friday, 15th November 2024 at Babylon Rotana Hotel where three distinguished speakers discussed the interplay between hypertension, diabetes, and neurological complications. Those hot subject were presented by Dr. Hussein Nasser, an Interventional Cardiologist, Dr Haider Ali, a consultant neurologist and Prof Abbas Mahdi, a consultant endocrinologist, and diabetologist. The symposium was moderated by Prof Ghazi Haji, the IqHS president.. Photo Gallery
The 7th IqHS Inernational Confence is just ended
Several days ago, the sessions of the Seventh International Scientific Conference of the Iraqi Hypertension Society ended successfully with wide participation by doctors from all over the Iraqand some Arabic countries during which various topics and updates related to hypertension were discussed, as well as some clinical cases related to the disease. The conference for this year was characterized by different topics, which included hypertension disease in children, women and the elderly, and a discussion of cases and complications that are associated with or caused by hypertension on all body systems. Continue reading
You can download the conference lectures from here.
Cardio-Renal Metabolic Forum
The Iraqi Hypertension Society with the collaboration of Boehringer Ingelheim pharmaceutical company held a scientific symposium at Oyoon Baghdad Restaurant on this Friday, 19 of July 2024 entitled ” Cardio-Renal Metabolic Forum” in which it discussed the spectrum of cardiorenal metabolic continuum in diabetes and the role of SGLT-2 Inhibitors in improving the outcome in such patients and their significant beneficial role in reducing the cardiovascular complications and in also reducing the progression of chronic renal disease. Continue Reading..
The Cardiac Triad: Understanding AF, Stroke and Heart Failure
The IqHS conjoint symposium with the Iraqi League for Bone and Joint health, 27-28 June 2024
In line with the Iraqi Hypertension Society vision on the importance of CVD complications in multiple disease specialties and their belief that the patient must be the core of every medical interventions or multidisciplinary approaches beside the importance of the growing evidence of shared pathogenesis of a lot of CVD with other systemic diseases including many rheumatological ones, the IqHS held a conjoint symposium with the Iraqi League for Bone and Joint health, ILBJH at Ramada hotel, Erbil city, Kurdistan Iraq on 27-28 of June this year under the theme ” The Crossroad of Heart and Musculoskeletal Diseases”..
The Iraqi Hypertension Society IqHS and RCP London Network in Iraq Conjoint Scientific Meeting
The Iraqi Hypertension Society IqHS and RCP London Network in Iraq in collaboration with Acino Pharmaceutical Company held a scientific meeting at Babylon Hotel on Friday -7 June in which the head of the RCP network in Iraq Prof. Hilal Alsaffar gave a short and yet detailed overview of hypertension control from diagnosis to management discussing the current different international guidelines in addition to focusing on the current position of beta blockers in its management. The session was interactive where he asked the audience many questions through an organized poll. It was a beneficial meeting as expressed by the attendees’ satisfaction. The session was moderated by the head of IqHS, prof Ghazi Haji.
Hypertension in Childhood: Underappreciated Issue
Based on the vision of the Iraqi Hypertension Society of the necessity of cooperation and joint work with the rest of the scientific societies with which it shares, and among its goals is to control hypertension, the Society held a joint scientific symposium with the Iraqi Society of Pediatrics in Alhikma Hall at Oyoon Baghdad Restaurant on 10/5/2024, under the title “Hypertension in Childhood: Underappreciated Issue”
During which the speakers presented an overview of the problem of hypertension in Pediatric population, which has begun to increase recently and unfortunately. Read more..
IqHS symposium in Ashur University
In continuation with the approach of the Iraqi Hypertension Society in spreading health education among the Iraqi population, especially the youth group, the Society, in cooperation with Ashur University, held an interactive scientific symposium on hypertension and smoking on Tuesday 27/2/2024 in one of the lecture halls on the university campus in which Dr. Raghdaa Sadiq, a member of the Society, reviewed the most important main points about hypertension and ways to prevent it, Continue reading..
IqHS Activity in Al-Aamal University College
As part of the Iraqi Hypertension Society’s constant keenness to spread health awareness about hypertension and its related risk factors, the Society held a scientific symposium on last Tuesday, 13 February 2024, at Al-Aamal University College, in cooperation with the Deanship of the College, in which the lecturers gave, through three lectures. The first lecture was an introductory overview of hypertension and some of the challenges and misconceptions about the disease among the people which was delivered by Dr. Ghazi Al-Haji, President of the Society.. Read more..
Deep Sight on Gray Zone of Systemic Hypertension
The Iraqi Hypertension Society held last Friday 10 of February a scientific meeting in Al Karam Palace Restaurant Hall with the collaboration of Awamedica Pharmaceutical Company about Hypertension and sexual function and also about the prevalence of hypertension in Iraq in addition to discussion about the recent 2023 ESC guidelines about the stepwise drug therapy in hypertension and the beneficial effect of single Pill combination SPC in its management with special talk about the efficacy of Valsartan/ Amlodipine combination with or without Hydrochlorothiazide diuretic in a heterogenous hypertension population Read more..
Cardio-mental Health Improvement
In accordance with the Iraqi Hypertension Society IqHS new trends of involving other societies in its scientific programs and opening new horizons in cooperation with the rest of other specialities with common visions on the subject of hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases, the IqHS and in cooperation with the Iraqi Psychiatric Association (IPA), held a joint scientific symposium last Friday, January 12, this year on Qasr Al-Karam Res. Hall entitled ” Cardio-mental Health Improvement” which was sponsored by Kawkab Scientific Bureau and moderated by Prof. Ghazi Haji, the President of IqHS, and presented by two eminent speakers Dr. Nesif Al-Hemairy, a consultant psychiatrist, and Dr. Saeed Majeed, a consultant Interventional cardiologist. Continue Reading..
IqHS Non- Smoking Campaign in Madeenat Al-ilim College
As part of the Non-smoking campaign led by the Iraqi Hypertension Society IqHS, the Society, in cooperation with the Deanship of the University College of Madeenat Al-ilim, held a scientific symposium on the dangers of smoking and the ways to prevent it in one of the college halls on Monday, December 4, 2023. It was attended by a group of college students and professors, in addition to the college dean. Dr. Ghazi Al-Hajji, President of the IqHS, as well as Dr. Samir Majeed, a Board Member, gave two lectures in this field in which they reviewed the history of smoking, its harmful effects on health, means of controlling it, and the applicable laws issued by the Iraqi Ministry of Health.
Awareness Campaign to Combat High Blood Pressure
As part of the awareness campaigns carried out by the Iraqi Hypertension Society, the IqHS held on Friday, October 20, 2023, an awareness campaign on Culture and Arts Street, Al-Mutanabbi Street, in cooperation with the sixth stage students at the College of Medicine, Baghdad University, with the participation of the Dean of the College, Dr. Amin Al-Alwani, as well as the President of the Iraqi Society for Hypertension, Professor Ghazi Haji. Read more..
Makeen, Arab Anti-Smoking Award
On the occasion of the launch of the Anti-Smoking Award Makeen, which is presented by the Council of Arab Economic Unity (Training Center) as well as the Arab Union for Humanities and Development The Iraqi Hypertension Society IqHS, is pleased to announce the participation of its President Professor Ghazi Haji, as one of Arbitration committee Members in this competition and would like also to announce the participation of the Society in the efforts made to reduce smoking in Iraq in cooperation with the Supreme Committee for Combating Smoking of the Iraqi Ministry of Health in addition to other scientific societies and NGOs. For further reading click here..
Download Conference Agenda here
Guidelines in hypertension: in conversation with the ISH and ESH
ISH President Professor Bryan Williams and Chair of the ESH 2023 Guidelines Committee Professor Giuseppe Mancia discuss the role, development, and impact of guidelines in hypertension in this conversation from July 2023. They were interviewed by ISH Communications Committee Chair Dr Anastasia Mihailidou, and Communications Committee Member Dr Swapnil Hiremath, following the publication of the 2023 ESH guidelines. The Iraqi Hypertension Society is pleased to share this important interview with you.
IqHS Scientific Session in Popular Medical Clinics Headquarter, Baghdad
