About the Authors

Sarka Lisonkova

slisonkova@cfri.ca

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia and Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jayson Potts

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia and BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Giulia M. Muraca

Affiliation School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Neda Razaz

Affiliation Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Yasser Sabr

Affiliation College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Wee-Shian Chan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia and BC Women’s Hospital and Health Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Michael S. Kramer

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: WSC received an honorarium as a speaker from USB in the last five years and received a Meeting Grant from the Canadian Hypertension Society. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SL JP GM NR YS WSC MK. Data curation: SL. Formal analysis: SL. Funding acquisition: SL. Methodology: SL JP MK GM YS WSC NR. Resources: SL. Software: SL. Supervision: SL WSC MK. Validation: SL MK. Visualization: SL WSC MK JP YS GM NR. Writing – original draft: SL. Writing – review & editing: SL WSC MK JP YS GM NR.