About the Authors
- Andrea Kuenzli
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Affiliation Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Heiner C. Bucher
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Affiliation Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Inder Anand
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Affiliation Cardiovascular Division, University of Minnesota Medical School, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
- Gregory Arutiunov
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Affiliation Russian State Medical University, Moscow, Russian Federation
- Leo C. Kum
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Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China
- Robert McKelvie
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Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences - General Site and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Rizwan Afzal
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Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences - General Site and McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- Michel White
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Affiliations Research Center, Montreal Heart Institute, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Alain J. Nordmann
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* E-mail: nordmanna@uhbs.ch
Affiliation Institute for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Competing Interests
AstraZeneca supported the research with an unrestricted grant, but the funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. None of the authors are employed by AstraZeneca. The authors did not receive consultant's fees from AstraZeneca. They do not have patents or products in development related to the content of this paper. The unrestricted grant from AstraZeneca does not alter their adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in our guide for authors http://www.plosone.org/static/policies.action#sharing.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: HCB IA GA LCK RM RA MW AJN. Analyzed the data: AK IA GA LCK RM RA MW AJN. Wrote the paper: AK HCB AJN.