About the Authors

Mar Pujades-Rodriguez

Contributed equally to this work with: Mar Pujades-Rodriguez, Jianhua Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

M.D.M.PujadesRodriguez@leeds.ac.uk

Affiliation Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Ann W. Morgan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Chapel Allerton Hospital, Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Richard M. Cubbon

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Jianhua Wu

Contributed equally to this work with: Mar Pujades-Rodriguez, Jianhua Wu

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Dr. AWM reports grants from Medical Research Council, grants from National Institute for Health Research, during the conduct of the study; grants and personal fees from Roche/ Chugai, personal fees from Sanofi, personal fees from GlaxoSmithKline, personal fees from Regeneron, outside the submitted work. Dr. MPR is currently employed by IQVIA (start of contract >1 year after completing and submitting this work). It is not possible to spell out IQVIA because there is no long form for it: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-full-form-of-IQVIA