About the Authors

Alawi A. Alsheikh-Ali

Contributed equally to this work with: Alawi A. Alsheikh-Ali, Waqas Qureshi

Affiliations Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Department of Medicine, Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Waqas Qureshi

Contributed equally to this work with: Alawi A. Alsheikh-Ali, Waqas Qureshi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Mouaz H. Al-Mallah

Affiliations King Abdul-Aziz Cardiac Center, National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

John P. A. Ioannidis

jioannid@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Stanford Prevention Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, University of Ioannina School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece, Biomedical Research Institute, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas, Ioannina, Greece, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JI AA-A. Performed the experiments: AA-A WQ MA-M JI. Analyzed the data: AA-A WQ. Wrote the paper: AA-A WQ MA-M JI.