About the Authors

Luis E. Echeverría

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

luisecheverria@fcv.org, luisedo10@gmail.com

Affiliations Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Division, Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia, Floridablanca, Colombia, Public Health and Epidemiological Studies Group, Cardiovascular Foundation of Colombia, Floridablanca, Colombia

Lyda Z. Rojas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Research Group and Development of Nursing Knowledge (GIDCEN-FCV), Research Center, Cardiovascular Foundation of Colombia, Floridablanca, Santander, Colombia

Sergio Alejandro Gómez-Ochoa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health and Epidemiological Studies Group, Cardiovascular Foundation of Colombia, Floridablanca, Colombia

Oscar L. Rueda-Ochoa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Electrocardiography Research Group, Medicine School, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia

Cristian David Sosa-Vesga

Roles Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia

Taulant Muka

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

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

James L. Januzzi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Clinical Research Institute, Boston, MA, United States of America

Rachel Marcus

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Carlos A. Morillo

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiac Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, McMaster University, PHRI-HHSC, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

Dr. Januzzi is a Trustee of the American College of Cardiology, has received grant support from Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Roche Diagnostics, Abbott, Singulex and Prevencio, consulting income from Abbott, Janssen, Novartis, Pfizer, Merck, and Roche Diagnostics, ownership in Imbria Pharmaceuticals, and participates in clinical endpoint committees/data safety monitoring boards for Abbott, AbbVie, Amgen, Boehringer- Ingelheim, Janssen, and Takeda. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. The other authors have no conflict of interests to declare.