About the Authors

Frederick K. Ho

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Frederick.Ho@glasgow.ac.uk (FKH); Naveed.Sattar@glasgow.ac.uk (NS)

‡ FKH and CD share first authorship on this work. RS and NS are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Caroline Dale

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ FKH and CD share first authorship on this work. RS and NS are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Mehrdad A. Mizani

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre, Health Data Research UK, London, United Kingdom

Thomas Bolton

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre, Health Data Research UK, London, United Kingdom

Ewan R. Pearson

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre, Health Data Research UK, London, United Kingdom, Division of Population Health & Genomics, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

Jonathan Valabhji

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

Christian Delles

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Paul Welsh

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Shinya Nakada

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Daniel Mackay

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Jill P. Pell

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Chris Tomlinson

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, United Kingdom

Steffen E. Petersen

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations British Heart Foundation Data Science Centre, Health Data Research UK, London, United Kingdom, The William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Benjamin Bray

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Population Health and Environmental Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Mark Ashworth

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population Health Sciences, King’s College London, London, United Kingdom

Kazem Rahimi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Women’s & Reproductive Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Mamas Mamas

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Medicine, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

Julian Halcox

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Swansea University Medical School, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom

Cathie Sudlow

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Population Health & Genomics, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

Reecha Sofat

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

‡ FKH and CD share first authorship on this work. RS and NS are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Division of Population Health & Genomics, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom

Naveed Sattar

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Frederick.Ho@glasgow.ac.uk (FKH); Naveed.Sattar@glasgow.ac.uk (NS)

‡ FKH and CD share first authorship on this work. RS and NS are joint senior authors on this work.

Affiliation Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, United Kingdom

CVD-COVID-UK/COVID-IMPACT Consortium

Membership of CVD-COVID-UK/COVID-IMPACT Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgements.

Competing Interests

NS has consulted for and/or received speaker honoraria from Abbott Laboratories, Amgen, AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Eli Lilly, Hanmi Pharmaceuticals, Janssen, Merck Sharp & Dohme, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Roche Diagnostics, and Sanofi; and received grant support paid to his University from AstraZeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, and Roche Diagnostics outside the submitted work. JV was National Clinical Director for Diabetes and Obesity at NHS England from 2013 to September 2023. JH received research grants from Amgen, British Heart Foundation, Health and Care Research Wales, and speaker honorarium from Amgen. CD is the Treasurer of European Council for Cardiovascular Research, Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland, Council Member of the European Society of Hypertension, and the Vice President of Scottish Heart & Arterial disease Risk Prevention (SHARP). All other authors declared no potential conflicts of interests.