Dear Friends and Colleagues

The strong connection between Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension is well recognized by the medical community yet their treatments were for many years been unrelated. With all three conditions having reached epidemic proportions worldwide, their treatment as one field is now rapidly expanding.

Controversies in Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension (CODHy) is an exclusive forum in which world eminent experts convene to share and compare their experiences with the goal of optimizing treatment for patients suffering from more than one of these common disorders. Over the years, the areas of Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension have experienced an enormous expansion in clinical and basic data as well as tremendous growth in related technologies. Such growth has fueled a greater need to debate the many controversial issues and crystallize them into clinical conclusions.

CODHy Congress provides a forum to discuss and debate unresolved controversies, by allowing leading speakers ample time to present conflicts and their effects on patients, and the participating audience sufficient time to discuss and propose informed views.

The Congress' goal is to provide answers to difficult controversial questions, allowing clinician to return to his practice with reliable, up-to-date scientific answers, based on the best existing evidence and expert opinion.

We invite you to take part of the First Congress on Controversies in Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension (CODHy).

The Organizing Committee