About the Authors

Ana-Catarina Pinho-Gomes

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Luis Azevedo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Information and Health Decision Sciences, Centre for Health Technology and Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Emma Copland

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Deep Medicine, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Dexter Canoy

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Deep Medicine, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

Milad Nazarzadeh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Deep Medicine, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Rema Ramakrishnan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Deep Medicine, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Eivind Berge

† Deceased.

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway, Institute for Clinical Medicine, University of Tromsø, Norway

Johan Sundström

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden

Dipak Kotecha

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

Mark Woodward

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, The George Institute for Global Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Koon Teo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Barry R. Davis

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The University of Texas School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, United States of America

John Chalmers

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The George Institute for Global Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Carl J. Pepine

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Kazem Rahimi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

kazem.rahimi@wrh.ox.ac.uk

Affiliations Deep Medicine, Nuffield Department of Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, National Institute for Health Research Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust, Oxford, United Kingdom

on behalf of the Blood Pressure Lowering Treatment Trialists’ Collaboration

Writing group, steering committee, and collaborators are listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: KR is an academic editor on PLOS Medicine’s editorial board and has in the past received personal fees as Speciality Consulting Editor for PLOS Medicine. KR is also in receipt of personal fees as Associate Editor for BMJ Heart.MW reports personal fees from Amgen, Kyowa Kirin, and Freeline outside the submitted work; JS reports ownership in companies providing services to Itrim, Amgen, Janssen, Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly, Boehringer, Bayer, Pfizer and AstraZeneca, outside the submitted work. Group authors listed in the acknowledgements have no known competing interests.