About the Authors

Clara K. Chow

clara@phri.ca

Affiliations Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences & McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada, The George Institute for Global Health and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Karen Lock

Affiliation European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Manisha Madhavan

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences & McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Daniel J. Corsi

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences & McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Anna B. Gilmore

Affiliations European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

S. V. Subramanian

Affiliation Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Wei Li

Affiliation Cardiovascular Institute & Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

Sumathi Swaminathan

Affiliation St. John's Research Institute, Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo

Affiliation Research Direction, Fundacion Oftalmologica de Santander-Clinica Carlos Arila Lulle, and Medical School, Universidad de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia

Alvaro Avezum

Affiliation Dante Pazzanese Institute of Cardiology, São Paulo, Brazil

Scott A. Lear

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada

Gilles Dagenais

Affiliation Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Université Laval, Quebec City, Canada

Koon Teo

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences & McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Martin McKee

Affiliation European Centre on Health of Societies in Transition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Salim Yusuf

Affiliation Population Health Research Institute, Hamilton Health Sciences & McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CKC KL ABG SVS MM SY. Performed the experiments: CKC MM WL SS PLJ AA SL GD KKT. Analyzed the data: CKC DJC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CKC. Wrote the paper: CKC KL ABG SL MM SY.