About the Authors
- Kazem Rahimi
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft
* E-mail: kazem.rahimi@georgeinstitute.ox.ac.uk
Affiliations The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Hamid Mohseni
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Catherine M. Otto
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Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Nathalie Conrad
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Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Jenny Tran
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Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Milad Nazarzadeh
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations The Collaboration Center of Meta-analysis Research, Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, Sabzevar, Iran, Torbat Heydariyeh University of Medical Sciences, Torbat Heydariyeh, Iran
- Mark Woodward
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Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Terence Dwyer
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Stephen MacMahon
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Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations The George Institute for Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, The George Institute for Global Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Competing Interests
KR receives a stipend as a specialty consulting editor for PLOS Medicine and serves on the journal's editorial board. MW is a consultant to Amgen on analyses of routinely collected US health data. JT has received funding from Rhodes scholarship for DPhil study at The University of Oxford. The Rhodes scholarship has no role in the study design or related decisions; JT is director of CHASE (non-government not-for-proft organisation) and previous Director of Libromat (non-government not-for-proft organisation) and secretariat of the Academy of Medical Sciences working group for multimorbidity. NC is supported by a grant from the British Heart Foundation. All the other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.