*Dear members of the Finnish Atherosclerosis Society, *

Welcome to the *4^th Annual Meeting of the Finnish Atherosclerosis Society*, to be held in Biomedicum, Helsinki, March 12-13, 2010.

The meeting will begin on Friday the 12^th of March at 12:00 (registration 12:00-12:30, presentations 12:30-about 18:00, dinner at Biomedicum) and the meeting will be closed on Saturday the 13^th of March (presentations about 8:30-12:30 and lunch 12:30-13:30). The detailed program will be sent later.

Please e-mail your *registration* with or without abstract (Your name, degree e.g. graduate student, medical student, PhD student, MD PhD student, post-doctoral fellow etc., Department/Institute, E-mail address) to petri.kovanen@wri.fi mailto:petri.kovanen@wri.fi *by 15.2.2010*.

We would like to encourage ALL of you to submit abstracts to the meeting.

Please E-mail your *abstract* to petri.kovanen@wri.fi mailto:petri.kovanen@wri.fi by *15.2.2010*.

The abstracts should be prepared in English using Microsoft Word® and arranged as follows:

The title of the abstract

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Authors (presenting author underlined)

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The Department/Institute of the authors

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Abstract text

We would like to ask you to limit the length of the abstract to one A4 page, using single-spaced Times New Roman, size 12 font, or Arial 11 font (Word Document).

The program and the abstract book will be printed in English and also all the presentations and the discussions will be held in English.

The final program compiled from submitted abstracts will be e-mailed to you later.

Please forward this message to anyone who might be interested.

For those not yet members but interested in joining the Finnish Atherosclerosis Society, the membership application form is attached.

Welcome to Helsinki to the 4^th Annual Meeting of the Finnish Atherosclerosis Society!

Petri Kovanen

President of the Finnish Atherosclerosis Society

Matti Jauhiainen

Vice-president of the Finnish Atherosclerosis Society

Minna Hannuksela

Secretary of the Finnish Atherosclerosis Society