About the Authors
- Victor Nauffal
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Yiyi Zhang
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Affiliation Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Tanyanan Tanawuttiwat
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Elena Blasco-Colmenares
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Affiliation Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- John Rickard
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Joseph E. Marine
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Barbara Butcher
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Sanaz Norgard
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Timm-Michael Dickfeld
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Kenneth A. Ellenbogen
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
- Eliseo Guallar
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Affiliation Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Gordon F. Tomaselli
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Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Alan Cheng
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* E-mail: alcheng@jhmi.edu
Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Competing Interests
AC has received honorarium from Boston Scientific, Medtronic and St. Jude Medical for participation in fellows educational programs and advisory councils. AC is currently employed by Medtronic as their VP of clinical research for defibrillators. KAE has received honoraria from Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Biotronik, served as a consultant for Medtronic, Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical and received fellowship support from Medtronic and Boston Scientific; and JR has received honoraria from St. Jude Medical. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: VN AC GT EG. Data curation: VN YZ EG EBC SN BB. Formal analysis: VN YZ EG. Funding acquisition: AC GT. Investigation: VN SN BB TT JEM AC GT. Methodology: VN AC GT EG YZ. Project administration: VN AC. Resources: VN SN BB. Software: VN YZ SN BB. Supervision: AC GT EG. Validation: VN AC GT EG TT JR YZ EBC JEM KAE TMD. Visualization: VN AC YZ. Writing – original draft: VN. Writing – review & editing: TT AC GT EG JEM JR YZ EG BB SN KAE TMD.