About the Authors

Isabelle Mahé

isabelle.mahe@lmr.aphp.fr

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Louis Mourier, Colombes (APHP), University Paris 7, EA REMES 7334, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France

Raluca Sterpu

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hôpital Louis Mourier, Colombes, (APHP), University Paris 7, Paris, France

Laurent Bertoletti

Affiliation Department of Vascular and Therapeutic Medicine, CHU Saint-Etienne, Hôpital Nord, Saint-Etienne, France

Luciano López-Jiménez

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Provincial Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain

Meritxell Mellado Joan

Affiliation Department of Angiology and Vascular Surgery, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain

Javier Trujillo-Santos

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Cartagena, Murcia, Spain

Aitor Ballaz

Affiliation Department of Pneumonology, Hospital de Galdakao, Vizcaya, Spain

Luis Manuel Hernández Blasco

Affiliation Department of Pneumonology, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain

Pablo Javier Marchena

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu-Hospital General, Barcelona, Spain

Manuel Monreal

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain

RIETE investigators

A full list of RIETE investigators is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The RIETE Registry was supported with an unrestricted educational grant from Sanofi Spain and Bayer Pharma AG. Bayer Pharma AG’s support was limited to the part of RIETE outside Spain, which accounts for a 20.05% of the total patients included in the RIETE Registry. The authors have nothing to disclose. The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: IM RS MM. Performed the experiments: IM RS LB LLJ MMJ JTS AB LMHB PJM MM. Analyzed the data: IM RS MM JTS PM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: IM RS LB LLJ MMJ JTS AB LMHB PJM MM. Wrote the paper: IM RS LB LLJ MMJ JTS AB LMHB PJM MM. Study concept and design: IM RS MM. Acquisition of data: LB MMJ AB LMHB MM. Analysis and interpretation of data: IM LB JTS PJM MM. Drafting of the manuscript: IM RS MM. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: LB JTS. Final approval of the article: IM RS LB LLJ MMJ JTS AB LMHB PJM MM. Had full access to all the data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data: IM MM.