About the Authors

Navkaranbir S. Bajaj

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine and Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Muthiah Vaduganathan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors share first authorship on this work.

Affiliation Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Arman Qamar

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kartik Gupta

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine and Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

Ankur Gupta

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, UTSW Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Harsh Golwala

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Javed Butler

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi, United States of America

Samuel Z. Goldhaber

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mandeep R. Mehra

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

mmehra@bwh.harvard.edu

Affiliation Brigham and Women’s Hospital Heart and Vascular Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

We have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: NSB is supported by American College of Cardiology Presidential Career Development Award and NIH/NCATS Award UL1TR001417. MV is supported by the KL2/Catalyst Medical Research Investigator Training award from Harvard Catalyst (NIH/NCATS Award UL 1TR002541) and serves on advisory boards for Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer AG, and Baxter Healthcare. AQ is supported by the NHLBI T32 postdoctoral training grant (T32HL007604) and the American Heart Association Strategically Focused Research Network in Vascular Disease grant (18SFRN3390085). JB has received research support from the NIH and European Union and has been a consultant for Amgen, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, CVRx, Janssen, Luitpold Pharmaceuticals, Medtronic, Merck, Novartis, Relypsa, Vifor Pharma, and ZS Pharma. SZG receives honoraria for consulting activities from Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, BMS, Daiichi Sankyo, Janssen, Portola, Agile, eXlthera, and Soleno and receives research support from BiO2 Medical; Boehringer Ingelheim; BMS; BTG EKOS; Daiichi; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health; Janssen; and the Thrombosis Research Institute. MRM is a consultant to Portola, Bayer, Janssen, Abbott, Medtronic, NupulseCV and Fineheart. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.