About the Authors

MyLinh Duong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

duongmy@mcmaster.ca

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Sumathy Rangarajan

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Michele Zaman

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Nafiza Mat Nasir

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sungai Buloh Campus, Selangor, Malaysia

Pamela Seron

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile

Karen Yeates

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Pamoja Tunaweza Research Centre, Moshi, Tanzania

Afzalhussein M. Yusufali

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Dubai Medical University, Hatta Hospital, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Rasha Khatib

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Advocate Aurora Research Institute, Milwaukee, IL, United States of America

Lap Ah Tse

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong

Chuangshi Wang

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research & Biometrics Center, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical, Beijing, China

Andreas Wielgosz

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Ottawa Department of Medicine, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Koon Teo

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Rajesh Kumar

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation State Health System Resource Center, Punjab, India

Alvaro Avezum

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Research Center, Hospital Alemão Oswaldo Cruz, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

Rosnah Ismail

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Community Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Burcu Tumerdem çalık

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Health Management, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey

Soumya Gopakumar

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Action by People and Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

Omar Rahman

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Katarzyna Zatońska

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Wroclaw Medical University Bujwida Wroclaw, Poland, EU

Annika Rosengren

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Johanna Otero

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto Masira, Universidad de Santander (UDES), Bucaramanga, Colombia

Roya Kelishadi

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cardiovascular Research Institute, Chamran Hospital, Isfahan, Iran

Rafael Diaz

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Estudios Clinicos Latinoamerica ECLA Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina

Thandi Puoane

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of the Western Cape, School of Public Health, Cape Town, South Africa

Salim Yusuf

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

All authors have declared that they have no competing interests.