About the Authors

Dimitrios Sagris

Affiliations Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece

Stephanie L. Harrison

Affiliations Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Gregory Y. H. Lip

gregory.lip@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliations Liverpool Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Liverpool and Liverpool Heart & Chest Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine, Institute of Life Course and Medical Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: DS: has declared that no competing interests exist SLH: Received a grant from Bristol Myers Squibb, outside of the submitted work. GYHL: Consultant and speaker for BMS/Pfizer, Medtronic Boehringer Ingelheim and Daiichi-Sankyo. No fees are directly received personally.