23 Jul 2025: Yan Li, ISH Council member and Chair of the ISH Women in Hypertension Research Committee, reports back on the Pulse of Asia Conference 2025, which ISH representatives were part of. Yan led the organising committee for the POA conference.

The Pulse of Asia (POA) 2025 has been successfully held in Shanghai jointly with the meeting of the 11th China Scientific Meeting on Blood Pressure Monitoring under the theme, ‘Precision Vascular Haemodynamics: AI, Big Data, and Imaging Shaping the Future of Vascular Medicine.’

Attended by Asian and global leaders in hypertension and vascular research, the conference featured 6 scientific sessions, 32 presentations, and cutting-edge discussions on cardiovascular innovation.

The meeting programme covered cutting-edge topics on vascular research and blood pressure monitoring. In the plenary session, IsH President Prof George Stergiou emphasised the potential of wearable cuffless BP devices to improve hypertension screening, diagnosis, and control.

ESH President Prof Thomas Weber pointed out that pulsatile hemodynamics was closely associated with cardiovascular diseases and might also represent a therapeutic target. Antihypertensive agents are used not only to normalise blood pressure, but also to slow down the increase of pulse wave velocity over time.

President of the Chinese Hypertension League, Prof Jiguang Wang, talked about the role of arterial stiffness in guiding antihypertensive treatment.

Prof Jeong Bae Park, President of POA, delivered a speech titled ‘Asia-inspired, globally engaged: A vision for the future of vascular science through POA and PULSE.’

In parallel sessions, invited speakers from Korea, Japan, Australia, Pakistan, and China gave keynote lectures and presentations and had insightful discussions on blood pressure measurement, vascular hemodynamics, new technologies, digital health and translational research.

Thanks to the support of the ISH, there was a special joint session of POA/ISH New investigator and Women Committees. Dr Audrey Adji, who had been awarded with the ISH Mid-career Women Award, shared her research journey on arterial function.

Two young scholars, Dr Ning Song from St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia and Dr Jun Han from Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Shanghai, China won the best oral presentation award after competitive presentations.

The POA 2025 advanced a unified vision for precision vascular medicine, highlighting AI-driven diagnostics, wearable technology, and equitable implementation frameworks. The conference established arterial stiffness and digital health as pillars for future hypertension management.

11th Scientific Meeting on Blood Pressure Monitoring held

The 11th Scientific Meeting on Blood Pressure Monitoring, jointly convened by the Chinese Hypertension League and Shanghai Institute of Hypertension on 28-29 June 2025 in Shanghai, assembled over 300 experts, scholars, researchers, and colleagues in the fields of blood pressure monitoring and hypertension management.

Under the theme ‘Monitoring Blood Pressure, Control Blood Pressure’, the programme featured state-of-the-art advances in office, home, 24h-ABPM blood pressure monitoring, hypertension management, primary aldosteronism diagnosis and treatment, and witnessed the inaugural release of the Chinese Expert Consensus on Wearable Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring. The congress concluded with a commitment to sustained academic collaboration and nationwide initiatives to increase the awareness, treatment and control rates of hypertension.

Thanks to Prof Jiguang Wang’s team for the report on the 11th China Scientific Meeting on Blood Pressure Monitoring.