About the Authors

Ehimen C. Aneni

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

ehianeni@outlook.com

Affiliation Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

Gul Jana Saeed

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Sleep and Cardiovascular Outcomes Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

Marcio Sommer Bittencourt

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for Clinical and Epidemiological Research, University Hospital and State of São Paulo Cancer Institute (ICESP), University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil

Miguel Cainzos-Achirica

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Cardiovascular Prevention and Wellness, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, TX, United States of America, Center for Outcomes Research, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States of America

Chukwuemeka U. Osondu

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Baptist Health South Florida, Miami, FL, United States of America

Matthew Budoff

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States of America

Edison R. Parise

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Sao Paulo, Brazil

Raul D. Santos

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil, Lipid Clinic Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School Hospital, São Paulo, Brazil

Khurram Nasir

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of Cardiovascular Prevention and Wellness, Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center, Houston, TX, United States of America, Center for Outcomes Research, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, TX, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.