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About the Authors
- Kazem Rahimi
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* E-mail: kazem.rahimi@cardiov.ox.ac.uk
Affiliations Deep Medicine, Big Data Insitute, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Paulus Kirchhof
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Affiliations Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, Department of Cardiology, University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, SWBH and UHB NHS Trusts, Birmingham, United Kingdom, AFNET, Münster, Germany
Competing Interests
PK receives research support for basic, translational, and clinical research projects from European Union, British Heart Foundation, Leducq Foundation, Medical Research Council (UK), and German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, from several drug and device companies active in atrial fibrillation, and has received honoraria from several such companies in the past, but not in the last three years. PK is listed as inventor on two patents held by University of Birmingham (Atrial Fibrillation Therapy WO 2015140571, Markers for Atrial Fibrillation WO 2016012783). KR receives personal fees from (i) PLOS Medicine, as Speciality Consulting Editor, and (ii) BMJ Heart, as Associate Editor.